African Americans reclaiming those values their foreparent had before they were kidnapped and enslaved in America.
COMING HOME TO AFRICA (The African American Anthem)
Coming home, coming home,
We're just coming home.
Africa is our home,
We'll just coming home. It's not far just close by
'cross the deep blue sea.
Here too long we've gotta go.
Going to fear no more.
Mother's land O'Africa,
Father's faith is there;
Lots of proud Folk are their;
Folk who look like us,
Folk who look like us.
Africa... Africa...
We're coming home.
Minds made up to come.
No more allibis;
No more blaiming you know who,
No more crying poor and black.
Going to leave right now.
Africa we're on our way, Coming home to stay.
Freedom's light is in sight,
Real life soon begins.
There's no turning around,
Just a moving on.
At the break of day
We're be home for good. Coming home, Coming home.
We're just coming home.
Africa is our home.
And we love our home.
We're just coming home.
Coming home to Africa.
(Talk-sing this song just as you say
aloud with gusto these words.
Uriah J. Fields has composed
lead sheet music for these lyrics.)
{The meaning of "coming home to Africa"
is for African Americans, the only group
or race of people kidnapped and brought
to America and enslaved for 244 years,
to reclaim these values of honesty, creativity
and community, their foreparents had
before they were brought to America --
before they were exposed to "American
exceptionalism" that today accounts for
America being the world's number one
jailer with 2.3 million people in prison
with African Americans constituting
12 percent of the U.S. population but
having 43 percent of the prison
population.}
I had the good fortune of housing a young lady from Liberia for a time. It is interesting because her country was founded by Americans of African descent who, after slavery, returned like your poem suggests, to their native Africa. Unfortunately, the young lady I mentioned spent six years hiding with her mother in Sierra Leone, missing out on a basic elementary education and forced to come back to the United States by turmoil in Liberia that continues to this day.
The statistics about those incarcerated are appalling. If that does not constitute a continuation of slavery mentality, it speaks of severe discrimination.
Yankee Doodle Daddy is a historical Appalachian Family Saga. The story follows a mother's reckoning as she struggles to survive and keep her four daughters alive.
Yankee Doodle Daddy is a historical Appalachian Family Saga. The story follows a mother's reckoning as she struggles to survive and keep her four daughters alive.
Yankee Doodle Daddy is a historical Appalachian Family Saga. The story follows a mother's reckoning as she struggles to survive and keep her four daughters alive.
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The statistics about those incarcerated are appalling. If that does not constitute a continuation of slavery mentality, it speaks of severe discrimination.
Ron