So I guess because of that, folks decided this was the month and it was already where we had celebrated black history for a week. Although I do believe we celebrated June 8 when we were freed as slaves legally. Other Emancipation Proclamation, I believe hopefully I'm right on that. Yeah. So I don't think Blacks originated in America, though. So that's where I'm conflicted. And what about that whole time as slaves? Right. Do we celebrate Thomas Jefferson raping black slaves? No
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:49
Brandi. Thank you for responding to the swell. You know, as a black man, Black History Month is one of those things that's hard for me. It's a personal thing that I affect upon it. It's not something that everyone goes through just being black in general. I went through perceived hardships in terms of, like, my blackness
Abraham Martinez
@AbeMartinez · 5:00
I guess, for my part, I felt a little bit like an outsider in my community growing up with people who were 100% committed to being not too different from everyone else, just participating in all the partying on the weekends, going to work, getting drunk with friends and stuff like that in order to, I guess, shove off the negative feelings that come from the state of life that we're all trying to live in, and my parents would always work, work, work, and then the weekend would come
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Abraham Martinez
@AbeMartinez · 3:56
The Spaniards came and pretty much took over and did whatever they felt like doing to control. But even before that, a lot of the natives that were there in power before and enslaved other Brown people of smaller tribes. I guess I'm just trying to relate with that kind of background
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:58
We had a clean slate when we got here to America, and through generations after generations, that identity was stripped away further and further. My native last name was probably not. Jefferson probably was the name of the slave owner that my great great grandparents resided at by force. So doing the swab, the DNA swab is something I've always wanted to do to see where exactly I descended from and no longer just fixing it to a gigantic continent. Africa