We ensure our royalty by honoring our ancestors who humbled themselves so we can be prideful, by the way we carry ourselves, and by paving a path for our posterity.
Dictionary.com’s definition of royalty is: having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family. Meaning royalty should be treated with dignity. Even if they are held to the lowest of standards? Are they still deserving of respect and honor? When the word ‘royalty’ rattles the atmosphere people usually think of diamond encrusted crowns and lavish lifestyles. That was not standard for our royal ancestors.
Looking back on the history of America and my founding fathers, who are the epitome of oppression continuing for 400 plus years, I found that many captive …show more content…
Royalty, I believe due to the mind washing of an entire culture full of kings and queens, has evolved from an inherited trait into a mindset born to those who are destined to lead and hold themselves above those who do them wrong. This evolution of the term royalty would apply to a different groups of people. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., FBI’s most dangerous black man in the history of our country, peacefully lead marches through Birmingham so we can be able drink at the same water fountain as all the other citizens in America. He is a leader. He is royalty. Mamie Till, who turned an unspeakable crime against her son into the spark that lit the flame of televised black beatings that caught the world’s attention. She is a leader. Mamie Till is royalty. Tupac Shakur, the son of an activist, helped shed light on the disenfranchisement in black neighborhoods through his rap lyrics. Tupac is a leader who dealt something more addicting than dope- hope. Tupac is royalty. Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL football player, is being objectified and ostracized for leading the kneeling during the national anthem movement. While he has lost his job Colin Kaepernick holds himself …show more content…
It is often said that if one does not know their future it will repeat. To clarify: If one does know their history but their peers do not then their peers will repeat history while that one person is the butt of the joke. For example: I know I am the descendant of kings, queens, entrepreneurs, inventors, and philanthropists but because majority of my fellow African American youth only knows the part of our story taught in classrooms that have gone from calling us “just” slaves to “immigrant farmers”, my peers think we cannot overcome the sentence to eternal discrimination and disenfranchisement. So our history repeats. The slaughtering of black male teenagers and men continue. The number of missing black girls increases. Babies continue to drink poison put in there bottles by the government. And women are still paid less than men for the same amount of work. The same problems reoccur and we often find ourselves in a time continuum of ignorance. All because our royal ties are deteriorating like the once flourishing empires back home we will never know what could have been. A story that may help you fully fathom our current situation is the story of Samson from the Bible. Like Samson we are granted victories here and there that we mistaken for insurance of future success. So like Samson, we lose sight of our goal and engage in the luxury of success , which leads us to repeat the many failed attempts to completely
Dictionary.com’s definition of royalty is: having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family. Meaning royalty should be treated with dignity. Even if they are held to the lowest of standards? Are they still deserving of respect and honor? When the word ‘royalty’ rattles the atmosphere people usually think of diamond encrusted crowns and lavish lifestyles. That was not standard for our royal ancestors.
Looking back on the history of America and my founding fathers, who are the epitome of oppression continuing for 400 plus years, I found that many captive …show more content…
Royalty, I believe due to the mind washing of an entire culture full of kings and queens, has evolved from an inherited trait into a mindset born to those who are destined to lead and hold themselves above those who do them wrong. This evolution of the term royalty would apply to a different groups of people. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., FBI’s most dangerous black man in the history of our country, peacefully lead marches through Birmingham so we can be able drink at the same water fountain as all the other citizens in America. He is a leader. He is royalty. Mamie Till, who turned an unspeakable crime against her son into the spark that lit the flame of televised black beatings that caught the world’s attention. She is a leader. Mamie Till is royalty. Tupac Shakur, the son of an activist, helped shed light on the disenfranchisement in black neighborhoods through his rap lyrics. Tupac is a leader who dealt something more addicting than dope- hope. Tupac is royalty. Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL football player, is being objectified and ostracized for leading the kneeling during the national anthem movement. While he has lost his job Colin Kaepernick holds himself …show more content…
It is often said that if one does not know their future it will repeat. To clarify: If one does know their history but their peers do not then their peers will repeat history while that one person is the butt of the joke. For example: I know I am the descendant of kings, queens, entrepreneurs, inventors, and philanthropists but because majority of my fellow African American youth only knows the part of our story taught in classrooms that have gone from calling us “just” slaves to “immigrant farmers”, my peers think we cannot overcome the sentence to eternal discrimination and disenfranchisement. So our history repeats. The slaughtering of black male teenagers and men continue. The number of missing black girls increases. Babies continue to drink poison put in there bottles by the government. And women are still paid less than men for the same amount of work. The same problems reoccur and we often find ourselves in a time continuum of ignorance. All because our royal ties are deteriorating like the once flourishing empires back home we will never know what could have been. A story that may help you fully fathom our current situation is the story of Samson from the Bible. Like Samson we are granted victories here and there that we mistaken for insurance of future success. So like Samson, we lose sight of our goal and engage in the luxury of success , which leads us to repeat the many failed attempts to completely