Offended by Their Greatness! – Why Some Blacks Reject Black History

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Many African Americans don’t want to hear much about black history mainly because it interferes with their sense of peace and progress. They are reminded of a time they cannot fathom when blacks were only three-fifths of a person and invisible to those who depended on them. They have masked their wounds with accomplishments and possessions granted by their former oppressors whom they feel strangely, inappropriately indebted to.

            When we don’t accept our innate greatness (gifts from The Creator) we reject the responsibilities that come with it. We also miss out on the rewards that come with it, like actual unstipulated freedom and control of who we really are.  Those who’d rather live in the present forgetting the past will always suffer the future. This is nothing new, but some of us don’t believe it. We don’t believe in our greatness because we’ve gotten comfortable at the bottom. The bottom requires no movement, no struggle, but for a people who once ruled a world which now rules them, the bottom is merely the start of an enviable finish at the top.