Ayana

This is not the typical introduction. This is not a social experiment.

I decided to connect with my brothers in Africa and Africans in America because I am very open minded and seek to know what it's like in the Motherland. I wanted to start a dialgoue between you and I. I desire a better understanding and to better educate myself, and to pass my knowledge to children that I teach. We are being murdered here in the United States on a daily basis. I am sure you might know the past history and the news and social media. I am a strong Black Woman living in a land that hates and despises me and my Black brother and sisters. Europeans stole the land from the native people and brought my African Ancestors here to North America over 400 years ago. They forced my people to build this country while they became rich. They have no need for us now, so they want us gone by any means necessary. They use to tell us "Go back to Africa" Go where ? To a place we do not know? We don't know Africa. We don't know the many languages, we don't know the customs. They took are identities from my ancestors and force the European way of life on us. We have nowhere to go ...nowhere to call home. We are people without a true home. I worry about our Black children ....it hurts. We are the product of what happen in Africa and America. My heart cries out for freedom and justice.

I am a loving caring Black Woman. They cannot take that from me. My great great grandmother and great great grandmother and great great great grandmother were African slaves. Their blood is in me always and forever. I love the Black Woman that I am.