E-Portfolio #5 Dr. Cain Hope Felder

Dr.Felder presented on the "Practices of Freedom & Justice in Race". He explained to us that freedom means to exercise choice and the free person is the one who exercises choice and justice is about the right relationship. He took us back to the beginning of Eden and how we are lead to believe that Africa has no history and Greece and Rome predated Africa. Adding that the Blue Nile/Giyan River/Nile River/White River is the longest river in the world. He brought up the book of genesis chapters 1-11 and the story of crime and punishment. How human beings will abuse power for instance pastors who are wealthy and live in these million dollar mansions in the suburbs while their congregation is still struggling and barely have a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out. Dr. Felder emphasized that we need to look back at notables like Sojourner Truth who was illiterate and the most noted and highly outstanding woman in the 19th century but practiced freedom and stood for justice and other notables like Martin Luther King Jr. He also spoke about Kwame "the redeemer" Enkruma another highly notable prime minister,vice president and pan-africanism pioneer. The perspective of history he have stating "we are the people of the day before yesterday", slavery being a big point, and the potential to one day be just as great as these pioneers.