Past Faults, Current Victories

I'm pretty sure everyone knows what this month is: Black History Month.


Some people take this month to harbor anger and past faults that people have made.
I'd like to be one of the one's that takes this month to be proud of our current victories and forgive the things that happened in the past.


Yes, my ancestors have been through so much, it has even run down to my grandparents experiencing racism. I've heard many stories of how we were treated wrongly and unfair but I can't hold it against current people of that race or even the past people. They were wrong for what they did, but it's time to forgive and show some love.
Our country's past racism still runs through our veins, and cries from the ground. We need to rise above the constant gnawing of past wrongs. Let's declare love as the reconciliation; the deliberate act of forgiveness.


I'm so very proud to say that the negative things people have put us down for we rose above it and have succeeded in life. Anyone can rise above it, we just need to look at the influences we have and put our mind to it and do it. Negativity from the past still holds people back even though they aren't getting beat, picking cotton, or watching their family get sold off to other familes. African Americans have been put in a mindset of settling for less, and giving up and we don't have to be that way. We need to fight like the great people before us did and still fight for freedom and carry on what our examples started years ago, don't let their fights be for nothing at all. Heroes, all the way from : Dr. Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, John M. Perkins, Phil Brooks an inventor, George Washington Carver an agricultural chemist, Nelson Mandela, and Barack Obama to the king of pop Michael Jackson. So many people that we can be proud of, so many people that made a difference in history. So many people we can model ourselves after, african americans have so many reasons to fight and make a difference.


During this month we don't need to dwell on the past faults of racism but let's dwell on our current victories, and many victories to come. We aren't out of the woods yet, but we're fighting through.


So  Let's love one another, because it's louder than racism, louder than differences and louder than hatred. It's even louder than pain. Let's live in |peace love & harmony.|


'Til next time fellow fighters.
Tori Taylar