A Black man(escaped slave?), Crispus Attucks, is historically recorded as the first man to die in/for the American Revolution... he lay in state and was celebrated at the time...
Attucks was a "Native Black American". In his case Attucks was, apparently, a mixture of Black and Native American...
American History is full of similar irony and little known "contribution/building block/deep roots" facts. Native Black American Ancestors have been involved in EVERY SECOND of American development/existence.
Native Black American Ancestors have fought/bled/died in EVERY American war--foreign and domestic. KNOW IT.
Today's "Native Black American" is defined by blood-deep roots, centuries of being in and of this land--evolving, contributing and changing along with "America". AND CHANGING America.
Native Black Americans are a unique and specific people.
If your DIRECT "known" Family roots go back CENTURIES to slavery...and you are identified as "Black/Negro"---you are...along with everything else... a "Native Black American".
"Native Black Americans" are unique in America. Distinct. It is a strength, culture, history and power to build on going forward. Own it.
AW 8-4-21
