A STORY OF IGNORANCE

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LONG, LONG AGO IN A COUNTRY FAR, FAR AWAY THERE LIVED A STIGMA. A SITUATION REALLY THAT EXISTED SINCE THE TIME OF COLUMBUS. A RACE OF BEAUTY WHOSE FATE BECAME TWISTED AS THE SHACKLES OF THEIR ORIENTATION FORCED THEM WESTWARD. RIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES. FROM THEIR FAMILIES...FROM THEIR LIVES TO LIVE MUCH LESS THAN WHAT THEY TRULY ARE. LESS THAN HUMAN...AS SLAVES IN THE SERVICE EUROPE. BUT THIS STORY ISN'T NECESSARILY ABOUT THE OPALS WHO BUILT THE STATES AS IT IS THEIR DESCENDANTS WHO ARE NOW LEADING THE PEOPLE TOWARDS THEIR DESTINY. FROM THE MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE THEIR FIRST FOOTPRINT ON THIS NEW LAND HAS BEEN RIFE WITH TORTURE, TERROR, SCANDAL AND MISFORTUNE UNTIL THE ONE DAY WHEN REVOLUTION HAPPENED. FROM THE COTTON FIELDS OF ALABAMA TO THE TOBACCO FARMS OF THE CARIBBEAN, THE SO-CALLED MASTERS FELT THE WRATH OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF SKILLED WARRIORS WHICH FORCED THEM TO BRING ABOUT AN END THE THIS DYNASTY OF OPPRESSION...GIVING BLOOD TO RECIEVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM. BUT BEING ABLE TO SPEND SUCH A GIFT WOULD BE ANOTHER WAR IN ITSELF...DEMANDING MUCH MORE TIME, ENERGY AND BLOOD. THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS SAW NOT ONLY THE KILLING OF THE INNOCENT BUT THE ATTEMPTED MUTILATION OF THE SPIRIT. ENTRAPMENT OF THE MIND IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE CAPTURING OF THE MIND. SEGREGATION WAS THE SUPPOSED MEANS TO THAT END, BUT IT WAS SHORT LIVED. IT WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THE CHAMPIONS OF THE PEOPLE AND SUFFERED GREAT LOSS. THE BREAKING SOUND OF SEGREGATION BROUGHT HAPPINESS TO THE PEOPLE. AND THOUGH THEY STOOD IMPOVERISHED BY ITS WAYS, THERE STANDING AMONG THEM WAS A BOY WHO WOULD RISE AND BECOME THEIR BEACON OF HOPE. HE IS NOW THE MARK TO WHICH THE YOUTH OF THE PEOPLE WILL ASPIRE TO, IF NOT SURPASS. AND AS HE STANDS ON THAT DAY UNDER THE FLAG WHOSE MEANING HAS BEEN REVISED, NEXT TO THE PRIDE OF AN ENTIRE NATION, THERE WILL BE THOSE AMONG THEM WHO VIEW THE CONFIRMATION OF HIS SUCCESS AS SIMPLY..............CONSEGRATION.......?!

MORAL OF THE STORY: THE HISTORY OF OUR PEOPLE IS VAST AND PROUD, EVEN IN THE TIMES OF SHAME. OUR ROOTS STEM NOT FROM OUR PLACE BUT OUR STRENGTH, OUR HONOR, OUR INTEGRITY, OUR PRIDE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OUR VIRTUES AND KNOWLEDGE. THE HISTORY OF OUR JOURNEY THROUGH THIS LAND PROVES THAT. WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO CREATED AND BUILT THE STANDARDS FOR SOCIETY, ACEDEMIA, AND SPIRITUALITY. THE COUNTLESS WONDERS OF OUR HOMELAND PROVE THAT AS WELL. REGARDLESS OF STATION OR SOCIAL CASTE THERIS NO REASON FOR OUR IGNORANCE. WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO OUR ANCESTORS TO CARRY ON THEIR TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE, MATH, RELIGION, PEACE, ETC.

...AFTERALL, IT IS OUR DESTINY...

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P.S. WEBSTER'S ONLINE DICTIONARY DEFINES "CONSEGRATION" AS "THIS WORD DOES NOT EXIST". IT'S "INAUGURATION"!!! HAIL TO THE CHIEF...