Black People : AFRICVILLE: Last stop on the underground railroad.. smashing the myth of the benevolent Canadian.

I think the speaker in the thread opening video is speaking against, what I think he may regard, as a revision of history. This film here seems to caste Africville as some sort of black utopia.. even though I can see it's building up to a statement about the injustice of the destruction and relocation of Africville.. I think the first video is trying to point out how miserable a place Africville was..

 
The two videos nearly seem like different time periods. One pre-dump, the other post-dump.

Either way, this goes to show that an African community should center around an industry. To base oneself around scavenging such that the waste of Europeans becomes like a pile of treasures is to debase oneself.

It's odd when one thinks of it--but typically Africans are made to 'scavenge' in European societies.
 
The two videos nearly seem like different time periods. One pre-dump, the other post-dump.

Either way, this goes to show that an African community should center around an industry. To base oneself around scavenging such that the waste of Europeans becomes like a pile of treasures is to debase oneself.

It's odd when one thinks of it--but typically Africans are made to 'scavenge' in European societies.

Yes, we have often been "scavengers." ----- Even the foods we ate were the "scavenged" parts the white folks didn't want: pig feet/chitterlings/pig ears/cow's tongue/etc...

We used what we had access to in order to survive.

But, we also often gone from "scavengers" to entrepreneurs.


Up From Hell's Hole
Mary Mcleod Bethune Had A Dream - To Bring Education To The Black Children Of Florida. It Was A Near-impossible Task For The Times, But Nothing Could Discourage This Determined Daughter Of Slaves.
February 23, 1997|By Stuart McIver
Turning Hell into something worthwhile was just the kind of challenge Mary McLeod Bethune liked.
Her Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls had grown too fast, from five girls in 1904 to 250 two years later. Now she needed more land so she could stop renting and build her own school.
But the only land this deeply religious woman could afford was called Hells Hole, which once had been a city gar-bage dump.
Still, at a cost of $250 it might be within her reach. She sealed the deal with a down payment of $5 in small change, money she raised by selling her own homemade ice cream and sweet potato pies.
Hell's Hole would be her inspiration "to plunge into creating something from nothing."
The "something" turned out to be Bethune-Cookman College, which today has nine branch campuses. It would prove one of many achievements for this daughter of slaves....
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/19...1_mary-mcleod-bethune-household-products-pies

....She found a rundown building and persuaded the owner to accept $1.50 as a down payment for the $11 per month rent. She rummaged for discarded supplies and found a barrel to use as a desk and crates for chairs. Of that time, she later wrote, "I haunted the city dump and the trash piles behind hotels, retrieving discarded linen and kitchen ware, cracked dishes, broken chairs, pieces of old lumber. Everything was scoured and mended."

In October 1904, the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls opened with five students (ages 8-12) who paid 50 cents a week for tuition....

http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/135bethune/135facts1.htm

Bethune-Cookman University
Situated on what was once "Hell's Hole," the city's garbage dump, in 1904, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman University, which now sits on more than 70 acres of prime Daytona Beach, Florida land in an ideal location providing easy access to business centers, theaters, museums, beaches, bus and air terminals, and recreational facilities. What a journey from a dump to a Dynasty!...
http://www.collegeview.com/schools/bethune-cookman-university/
 

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