Learning, Wisdom, and the African World Blog Post: Gladys Creppy-Hetherington

     Dr. Carr's lecture was very fascinatining to me. I felt that he addressed issues that i feel no one really talks about amongst the African American populations. People seem to want to forget their roots instead of embracing it and using it to put themselves ahead of the rest. I especially appreciate the fact that he is letting people know that the history of the African race goes way beyond what we are thought in schools. There is a more positive and graceful side to our culture than advertised in the media.
    The first point of the lecture that i felt as key was the part about African American thoughts/intelect. I agree that even the greatest African American intelectuals were limited to what was thougt to be the furthest people were suppose to think. They never really actually went beyond the norm. I believe that maybe it was because they lacked the education of prior Africans and their culture and way of thinking.
    The next point that i found to be key was how the history of the African race goes further back than people actually admitt. But no one reall focuses on it because our history is overshadowed by other events such as Christopher Columbus. The way they teach history in schools, you would think that African history didn't start until slavery begin.
    The last and finall key point i found was African American union. Dr. Carr used a metaphor of rooms without walls to show that the African race needs to unite in order to better us as a whole. I believe that if we all came together, we would be able to tackle issues facing our race such as the increasing number of incarserated African American males and the increase in the HIV rate in Washington, DC.
   The lecture opened both my eyes and mind to things that i had never thought about before. Now i am interested in finding ot exactly when the African race begin and how people thought back then. I believe that now days were just trying to fit in with the populaion instead of creating our own paths and being rpoud of who we are. Physically our race has come very far, but intelectually, we still have a distance to go.