History Often Repeats Itself

       Our lecture speaker, Dr.Carr,was amazing this week. I had no previous knowledge on anything spoken during the Learning, Wisdom and the African World Experience: An Mbongi lecture.I learned four new mbongi terms: boko, yemba, lusanga, and kioto. 
       
       Our people (Africans) were forced to come to America. We adapted to the Standard American English language; that goes to show that we are intellectual human beings.We speak languages in which others cannot understand. Our ancestors took re-membered fragments of African speech and grammar and created new languages, known as Creole, Ebonics, Patois.... etc.(Ngũgĩ, Something Torn and New, pp. 45)


   You have have to know where you come from, in order to get where you are going. As I am a part of the younger generation, I seek every resource to learn more about my ancestors."If you want to hide something from a black person, out it in a book." Anything we want to know about our ancestors is readily in front of us; whether it is a song, book,picture,poem,bible,etc.


There was a text quoted from E. Franklin Frazier’s Failure of the Negro Intellectual, that I will never forget.
       “educated Negroes or Negro intellectuals have failed to achieve any intellectual freedom.  In fact…it appears that the Negro 
intellectual is unconscious of the extent to which his thinking is 
restricted to sterile repetition of the safe and conventional ideas 
current in American society.  We have no philosophers or 
thinkers…men who have reflected on the fundamental problems 
which always concerned philosophers such as the nature of 
human knowledge and the meaning or lack of meaning of human 
existence.” 

E. Franklin Frazier
(via E. Franklin Frazier was a leading American sociologist and scholar.)