Reply #92: I for one think that it IS a remarkable story, whether [View All]

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it's of our First Lady or any other African-American with a history of slavery in their family, and every one of them if given a chance should be oohed and awed and lauded and proclaimed as a triumph - millions of triumphs around the world, honoring the faceless identity-stripped ancestors who could only dream, as Maya Angelou once wrote, of us. I, from Africa with stories of those abducted and still missed to this day, love that we honor each story as a great find even just to say that their anguish was not in vain and to look back at what a strong people we are to come through utter brutal bullshit alive and still kicking!

Excuse my enthusiasm but I come from a culture of ancestor worship and take great joy in recognizing and thanking the brothers and sisters who aren't here.