Liberians

Questions on Liberia

1) Why did some politicians of America decide to allow repatriation of African American slaves?
2) What challenges did African Americans go through for them to consider returning to continental Africa?
3) Did African Americans experience culture shock on their return to continental Africa?

My Maholo

My 24 categories on culture

The "Why" Question

Why are people prejudice towards other people?

People can become prejudice when they are ignorant to another culture and identity that is different to their own. Hence, due to this lack of understanding they make false judgements that further corrode their ability to understand another group of people.

Pros
-people feel more safe around their own

Cons
-people begin to feel insecure
-unity is more difficult to achieve
- wars can develop

Historical Figure

Paul Cuffee is best known for his efforts in trying to make Sierra Leone a colony of America. He believed that Sierra Leone would be a place for African Americans to build a society of their own. In this society he envisioned blacks reaping the benefits of liberties and opportunities; a reality that did not exist in America at the time.

Paul Cuffee pondered on a mass emigration of slaves to Sierra Leone after watching his own success as a black man in the late 1700s born free in Massachusetts. His freedom allowed him to own his own vessel and work in a whaling ship where he learned navigation skills. He thought that the same freedom granted to him would be granted to all African Americans in a colony of their own.

After building support on his idea for an American colony in Sierra Leone he launched a trip there. When he arrived it became clear that Cuffee was trying to change the culture of the indigenous Sierra Leoneans after making the impression that once he left they would return to their heathen ways. Furthermore, on his departure of the colony it is said that he warned the people to not defer from his lessons on behavior.

When Cuffee returned to the United States he informed President James Madison of his idea of making Sierra Leone a colony of America. The President denied Coffee’s attempt at having it done.

African American Lives

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/aalivestoolkit/

Febraury 13 Channel 13 at 9pm
1) Who is Dr. Henry Gates?
2) Choose an interviewee and discuss the following:
the historical events of his/her family
the historical- significance of his/her family

Henry Gates is a literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He has been the host and co-producer of African American Lives in which the ancestry of notable African Americans is traced using resources and DNA testing.

He has licked the ancestry of many remarkable African Americans including Jackie Joyner- Kersee. She is an Olympian athlete that has won three gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals in the heptathlon and long jump competitions in 1988.

The research done on her ancestry revealed:
- In 1827 Gabriel Connor, Jackie Joyner-Kersee's great, great, great, great grandfather, is forced to move from Virginia to Tennessee when he becomes the property of his owner's son.
- In 1900 Drip Rainey and Ellen Collins, Jackie Joyner-Kersee's great, great grandparents are property owners in Mississippi after having lived as slaves under slavery.
- In 1962 Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is born in East St. Louis, Illinois. In the same year, Malcolm X becomes national minister of the Nation of Islam and embraces a separatist philosophy that is markedly different from the nonviolent civil rights movement's integrationist stance.
- In 1984 Jackie Joyner-Kersee attends her first Olympic games. In the same year, Jesse Jackson becomes the second African American to make a bid for the presidency of the United States.

Dr. King

"An indvidual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity" Dr. King

I strongly agree with this quote because it identifies that when people work together and become our brother's keeper we can reep the greater joys of life. This quote is a reflection of how Dr. Martin Luther King was able to achieve success in bringing about Civil Rights to all. This example from Dr. King should be a model to communities in the United States on how to agitate change.

1. How do you plan on agitating change in your community?
2. What is an effective way to get individuals in your community to work together?
3. What changes need to be made in your community?

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