Part 1 ( 675 words)

            The Invisible Heritage of the Black American

                      The Importance of the true and complete knowledge of Heritage

By Rev. RaDine Amen-ra

Black Americans have a very fragmented understanding of their Ancestry. An overriding majority make  note of their “ Indian blood  tie” as told to them by their elders. Surprisingly, few recount stories from elders that tie them to  their African bloodline. In fact, research suggest that the African side of most people who identify themselves as African Americans is as much a mystery as the “Indian bloodline is a fact. Just how the two interface with  the other is now coming to light with shocking  implications. The result will stop the changing identity for Black/African American, and give them back   heritage and homeland inheritance they have been so desperately seeking. The purpose of this writing is to shed light on the real heritage of the Black American people  in America and challenge key assumptions that is making the current version of  United States propaganda of  African/American history education more myth than  reasonable reality for  Black/African Americans. The awareness of a heritage and historical legacy strengthen a people understanding of the world in which they live and there position in that world. A people without a history worth respecting are likely to believe they have no heritage worth claiming or humanity worth defending. They are position for perpetual  control and poverty.

Researching the United States version of American history of Negro’s and Indians is first complicated by the fact that in historical documents, the two words, Negro and Indians , are used to intermittently to describe the same people. Failure to acknowledge this sameness has fostered the myth that the genial  “ Native Americans” are people with European features, and black straight hair. This myth has had the intended consequences   of maintaining the invisibility of the correct racial identity , while erasing from historical considerations, the heritage of belonging to America of anyone that looked differently. The historians and educators  who promoted this myth, also promoted the myth, the race of American Indians vanished from there lands. All of this education distortion, is there attempt to permanently conceal the fact that  a race   Negroes, represent the original  ANASAZI people called Indians. The American Negro people inhabited the Americas millions of years before the arrival of Columbus and subsequent invasion of people from Europe. This fact is supported in early American history and by archaeological discoveries of tools and artifacts in America. A growing school of researchers contend that the American Indians  or Amerindians( researcher term) are undisputable the true ancestral heritage link to Americas current population of Black/African Americans.

The question becomes; Why don’t Black Americans identify with there ancestral heritage  or history?

Mis-education  , lack of respect for the verbal heritage identity, compounded with  false information about the racial identity and heritage of American Indians fostered the assumption to  many Black American people they are the descendants of  dislocated slaves from Africa instead of dislocated people of America who were to be enslaved. Black American people have been educated to dis-respect there humanity knowledge transferred to them by there families and to respect the versions of European history as gospel truth  for life validation. However most Black Americans can not find the slave stories from there elders, and the elders did not validate they  came from Africa. The story from the elders gives humanity to the people, the story from the educational media stripes the humanity from the people.. Many people , because of there Brown skin color and curly hair texture and being labeled “Black”  would prefer to  adopt the identity of being  of African decent and the descendants of imported Slaves. Unfortunately,  because of the emotional violation  from  invalidation of a persons human dignity of heritage  from the slave dogma, few Black Americans placed value on exploring their heritage tied to their Grandmother identity of Indian bloodline or there ancestors life in America before slavery. Instead, the  focus by Black American educators have been to line there pockets with  gold thru   mis-leading the direction of the younger generations quest for “Black Pride”  promoting superficial integration of African cultures  as the way to Embrace the Continent of Africa “ as their  new adopted homeland. The Black American elite conspire to keep invisible the truth  about  the ethnic heritage inheritance belonging to the Black American children , from there ancestors of belonging to America.  The psychological progression of  mis-education is evident in the group labels from Indians ,Nero’s, coloreds, to Blacks to African Americans. These changes also  supports the idea that” Changing and redefining  a collectives identity-changes a collective development of there humanity./

Clearly , the legacy of a person’s heritage creates, maintains and defines a persons self worth, self image , and connection with all that is living and in spirit. While the history  book of the United States fail to freely illuminate on the original racial identity  of Native Americans as being brown/Black American people, the elders of each generation made sure this connection  of truth would not be forgotten. Their whispers about the Indian bloodlines promises to  re write U.S. version of American  heritage and change the way the people called Black Americans perceive their original Anasazi heritage as the Real American Indians and are perceived by others.