Things We Say Back In The Day...
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Introduction
We are pleased to have you visit our project, THINGS WE SAY... BACK IN THE DAY.
It is our intention to continue to remind us that we are all family with much to contribute to society from each of our cultures and traditions.
Enjoy your experience and share with others the jewel you have found here. WE look forward to your responses.
-- The Staff
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Where have the "good ole days" gone?
What happened to the good old days? The days when our people were family, friendly and fun.
As our ancestors have taught us, "It takes a village" to raise a child. Indeed it does. We remember when our neighbors and elders were our mothers and fathers when our parents were absent for whatever reason.
Where's "big momma" who was everyone's surrogate grandmother? She's that often fully figured, matronly, flowered dressing, church going sassy and sweet brown skinned woman, who had a remedy for every ailment.
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Things we say...
We as a people have a rich oral tradition. We have more stories and sayings than "Carter has liver pills". Stories about how "God made a way out of no way." Saying that came from real life about ourselves and each other's experiences in life. Stories of our sucesses and failures, joys and sorows and some so humerous they will leave you in stitches, sometimes literally.
It's evident in our music, our preaching and our "down home school" teaching. There are acres of diamonds in the things we say.
During our migration and intergration from down South to up North, we've lost some of those stories and sayings that were pearls of wisdom. We traded our oral legacy for "book learning" so we could compete in the "real world".
Our ancestors may not have realized that they could know nearly everything today by "Googling", but they did know that "we'll understand it better by and by."
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What do you remember?
What are some things we say, back in the day that you remember? All of us are holding precious remedies for what ails us in life in our hands. IT'S TIME TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD SO THE WORLD CAN BE HEALED!
Help us recover some of those diamonds for ourselves and our future generations to come. Simply choose which method you prefer to use to share with us and others as we preview and post the "things we say back in the day."
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Let's remember those things that have made us the great people we are today.