HISTORY - Gary Oliver - Bog

A history that has been hidden in the darkness, kept form the world to legitimise theft, violence, and dishonour. Whole edifices have been built to this idiom. Intuitions have crafted functions, cannons, and academic discourses to keep this secret. The black man/woman's achievement have been ignored by a western civilisation that built upon their creation of society. Their inventions miss-attributed by reinvention, their philosophies discredited, and their cultures assimilated. In the hope that they would forget and not remember their former glory and therefore forget the betrayal of their former trading partners, the western Europeans. But they did not forget, they did remember and despite all they have been put through, their heads remain held high in their remembrance of all that went before.
Yet, the black man/woman does not reciprocate in the wholesale violence perpetrated on their ancestors. Nor do they sink into the dark sullen debased vengeful hate typical of those who urged and advocated the construct of racism, they have not taken hatred's bate. They have not succumbed to the urges of paranoia revenge so readily given into by the Europeans, even after the murder of their brothers, sisters, their children, and their wife's, not even after their rape, maiming, and barbaric lynching. The black man /woman are truly remarkable human beings, from truly magnificent ancestors, a truly magnificent people. Surely, if human beings are made in the image of God the Father, then they are made in this image- a servant, humble, forgiving, strong, loving, durable, resourceful, clever, persistent, proud, flexible, humble, hard-working, generous, innovative, intelligent, understanding, inventive, creative and a survivor, black survivor...