After conducting a "Black in America" general body meeting among the peers of my cultural student organization....I've realized, first hand, how blind Black America was. I really feel like I got to interact with a sample population of that category, and I feel like the struggle has JUST BEGUN. Knowing me, I touched on black economics, the black psyche, and a little bit of our interesting experience here in America, mainly during Reconstruction....These kids knew NOTHING. Like, NOTHING, NOTHING. All they really knew was that they were black, and struggling. That was it. During my lecture, I got a little frustrated, but then I thought back at what Morpheus told Neo...,"I have only one rule...and that's to never free a mind unless it reaches a certain age."
I told them that, but I said instead, "....never free a mind unless you are ready." There is TOO much information out there to be walking around clueless. Knowledge is a weapon, and if used correctly, you could change many things. I hope I at least one kid heard me and didn't think I was an angry black woman who "couldn't let slavery go."