Phyllicia Tucker-Saunders

African American Heroes In the Face of Domestic Terrorism Phyllicia Tucker-Saunders

We cannot study America's darkest sin (the chattel enslavement of a whole race of people) unless we embrace it with a forgiving heart and love for one another. Ephesians 4:31-32 teaches - "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." Though "the horror is too horrendous" for our earthly minds to comprehend, we must bring forth the true-truth, knowing that our objective is that we do not repeat the dreadful sins of our past. I would hope that this book will promote confidence and self-esteem among Black students as they learn who we are as a people and be a history lesson to ALL students of every culture that Blacks too are one hundred percent human and deserve to be treated as such. I did not have this knowledge when I was young and I was taught a skewed view of who my people were. In my sixth-grade history class, the only thing we learned about Black people and slavery is that they were happy, they sang, and they ate watermelon. One day when we were about to study the topic of slavery, the teacher said to me "If you feel embarrassed, you can sit in the hallway."