4am Slacking

Its 4am. Here I am at Rachel's ant infested Mac Book trying to catch p on entries I haven't done yet. This blog is going to be one big back track. We've already been here for a week and this is the first thing i typed. O well.

How Im feeling So Far::

Me being a naturally stand off-ish person. Im not to big on the whole group thing. Especially being that 80% of the group on this trip are white American sorority girls and "save the earth peace corp types who have little to no knowledge of anything African what so ever (besides Obama maybe). Im not knock'n them though. I just think its important to know who and what your surrounded by.

Background::

Before I come off sounding like a Black nationalist whitey hating anarchist, let me just say a bit about how I grew up, being that we are all products of our environment.

Boston born and raised and don't care what anyone has to say about it, I love my city, don't care much about America, but I love my city. I spent most of my life in Roxbury, Dorchester Jamaica Plans with weekend trips to see my mom in Cambridge. If you know anything about these areas you know they are all predominantly Black, Latino and Asian. My preschool is a Black owned Non-profit soaked in Afrocentricity. this is something I over looked but i just finished their web site so the whole structure of that place has new meaning to me. Basically what im trying to point out here is that since birth I have been surrounded by and overwhelming sense of pride in African American heritage. Every book report, science project, children's stories, you name it, had something to do with Africa/the diaspora.

That's the short version of me I guess. My favorite person (if you would call it that) is Huey Freeman from the Boondocks.

Nuff said.

Fast Forward::

Based on that I hope you can see why going to Africa with a bunch of sorority girl tourists is not exactly what I signed but for but I am here none the less.

I still made it to Africa.