Don't Disappoint Them

So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

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Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...

Fought in World Wars as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...

and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don't you dare let them down!

We've been suffering from time immemorial and we've been making waves proving positive in all ramifications and showing how strong and blessed we are. We didn't quit then, don't think this is the right time to quit. To every black out there suffering any form of racism, failure or hard life. Hang on you will scale through with time. Let's make our fallen heroes proud. "We are blacks and we matters!"

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!