Things We Say Back In The Day...
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THINGS WE SAY BACK IN THE DAY is a collaboration of local non profits and business professionals and individuals with the purpose of providing and preserving our oral traditions.
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WE THANK our contributors for sharing what you know, what you've heard and what you've felt in honor of our ancestors who live in THINGS WE SAY BACK IN THE DAY.
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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. She believed "the Lord would make a way somehow" but also knew how to "put feet" on those prayers by getting out there and getting it done.
Perhaps we have neglected to include in our character some of the ingredients that have made us some of the most prominent, prosperous and prodigious people on the planet today. Honesty, integrity, culture, counsel, understanding, knowledge, true beauty, and the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom can barely be found in our growing youth of today.
Let's remember those things that have made us the great people we are today. Let us especially recall and record the things that were told to us by our ancestors; those gems that sustained us until now.
Things we say...
We as a people have a rich oral tradition. We have more stories and sayings than "Carter has liver pills". 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."
Before we forget more of what was told us than what we'll ever know, let's recall and record those sayings we've lived by over the years. Let's leave a legacy for some of the greatest people yet to be born on this planet; our children, grandchildren and beyond.
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Let's remember those things that have made us the great people we are today.