Stop being the inferior

So because I have been sleep all day I’m always up in the morning. Smh For some reason I find myself to be more productive at night. But yesterday I felt so grown. I deposited a check on my own for the first time. Me being sheltered that doesn’t happen to often for me to do things on my own. I spent the rest of my afternoon with my love Jeff. We walked down west end exploring what it had to offer. We stopped by this African store that sold Kwanzaa things, African sculptures, books written by African Americans and the had this slave exhibit. The slave exhibit just really made me realize how much our race went through just to have the freedom we have today. The exhibit showed pictures of hangings, how slaves were crammed all on to the boat, slaves being tortured, slaves being burned alive and the even had an actual dummy hanging on a pole with his foot cut off, fingers chopped off and whip lashes on every inch on his body. One piece that really stood out to me was when I read an information post about the picture that was posted next to it. The picture showed a young boy being hanged and a whole bunch of white people standing around the tree people laughing. The information posted on the side said the young boy was retarded and was found guilty of killing a white women. They beat the boy, tortured him, hung him by a tree and burned him alive. I wanted to cry in the exhibit when I read that. There was also a sign that was on the wall said that “We as African Americans remain to be inferior due to our past of enslavement”. Our mentality remains inferior because we only let it. we can make a change tho. I think that African Americans should cherish and be grateful that we don’t have to go through what our ancestors had to go through. It was because of them that we are free today and we have equality in today’s society. As our new black president said “Change we can believe in”. So lets make that change and stop being the inferior in our society.