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Last edited Fri Jun 28, 2013, 09:08 AM - Edit history (2)
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)K and R
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Despite the controversy over whether it was truly an important hub in the trade. It's still the memories in our collective consciousness that get stirred up by the photos and memorial, IMO.
Door of No Return
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Rec.
navarth
(5,927 posts)and we have so far to go. Very historic pic, thanks.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)and their civil rights exhibit is pretty impressive. I talked to one of the curators and she told me this bus had been sitting in somebody's back yard rusting for decades. After the museum located it, they spent hundreds of thousands purchasing and restoring it. It really is something to see if you're ever in Detroit.
They also have the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot. Pretty spooky.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and just think that Clarence Thomas, Allan West and more blacks think that slavery need to return for blacks because it was the best thing tht ever happened to them.
UGH
FreedRadical
(518 posts)In some non-black communities, that is a prevailing attitude.
Hekate
(90,769 posts)Thanks for the post
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Sometimes our family history sucks.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)that is really moving.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)I remember Professor Gates taking Emmitt Smith back to Africa and showing him the Doorway. Smith's roots traced right back to that village. He saw the Gate and broke down. A very emotional and transending experience. It almost acts like a time portal now when you look into it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)To that. I say, "Good."
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)TinkerTot55
(198 posts)...getting a poster-sized enlargement of a photo like that? I certainly wouldn't want to violate someone's copyright of the original photo.
Btw, it's very sobering and sad to see how quickly our POTUS is going grey.
Triana
(22,666 posts)TinkerTot55
(198 posts)Thanks, Triana.
kentuck
(111,107 posts)Thanks.
JI7
(89,260 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Turbineguy
(37,361 posts)It was like a series of medieval dungeons but without the luxuries.
Triana
(22,666 posts). . .
There is no way to undo what happened here at Goree Island and no way to erase the stain of slavery from our nations past. But there is also no denying the course that history has taken since that time. Since then, weve seen so many brave men and women rise up against slavery and segregation folks like Harriet Tubman who led an underground railroad to freedom; and William Wilberforce and Frederick Douglass who spent their lives speaking out against slavery; and Dr. Martin Luther King who sacrificed his life working to fulfill his dream of a more just, more free America.
People who came through this island could never have imagined how history would unfold. And they certainly could never have imagined that someone like me a descendant of slaves would come here with her own family, and look out through that door of no return. And maybe, in the end, that is an argument for hope even in the face of the most unspeakable horrors, because time and again both in America and around the world we have seen that cruelty and oppression are no match for people of conscience who commit themselves to the cause of freedom. So I hope that in your own lives, instead of being overwhelmed by the tragedies of our past, you will take inspiration from the triumphs of historys heroes and I hope you will follow in their footsteps to create a better future.
(Michelle Obama)
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THE REST:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/27/flotus-travel-journal-visiting-goree-island
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JustAnotherGen
(31,849 posts)Place for our my First Lady to stand.