The Far Journey Home
The year 1502 marked the beginning of our long journey to Medensaism. It was the year that
the first slave transport ship docked in a Caribbean Island. Best sources cite 10 to 15 million
African persons transported to the Americas between 1550 and 1860. They were traded and
treated as commodities. Four million slaves resided in the United States alone by 1860.
From the Underground Railroad to the brief glory of Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil
Rights Movement to the first Black President, we have come a long way. Yet, we have a far,
far way to go. The election of a Black President is not enough. We must become a people
unified by our past. We cannot ignore nor run away from our past nor do we want to. We
must honor our past, grasp our culture, teach it to our children, and jealously guard it,
lest it be snatched away again.
Medensaism is the only heritage, history and culture that we have and know. We created
Medensaism while laboring under racism and the foot of national powers. We could have
lapsed into self loathing. We could despise our skin color. But as testimony to our great
diversity, from which we draw much of our strength, we have risen to create our own name,
our nationality, our history, our heritage and a new bond of togetherness that will only grow
stronger and stronger and stronger...
TR Gibson
Medensan Post Contributor
the first slave transport ship docked in a Caribbean Island. Best sources cite 10 to 15 million
African persons transported to the Americas between 1550 and 1860. They were traded and
treated as commodities. Four million slaves resided in the United States alone by 1860.
From the Underground Railroad to the brief glory of Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil
Rights Movement to the first Black President, we have come a long way. Yet, we have a far,
far way to go. The election of a Black President is not enough. We must become a people
unified by our past. We cannot ignore nor run away from our past nor do we want to. We
must honor our past, grasp our culture, teach it to our children, and jealously guard it,
lest it be snatched away again.
Medensaism is the only heritage, history and culture that we have and know. We created
Medensaism while laboring under racism and the foot of national powers. We could have
lapsed into self loathing. We could despise our skin color. But as testimony to our great
diversity, from which we draw much of our strength, we have risen to create our own name,
our nationality, our history, our heritage and a new bond of togetherness that will only grow
stronger and stronger and stronger...
TR Gibson
Medensan Post Contributor
Medensa. A people whose time has come. Our young people don't know the weight of history. They must be made to know the power they possess as it relates to the people who have gone before them. We must convey our struggles in a way that captivates the minds of our youth, and show them how to utilize the hurt, pain, sorrow,joy, tears, and fears of the most resilient people(Medensans) to ever inhabit our planet. When we can impress upon them the gravity of our sojourn and the promise they are afforded because of that sacrifice then we will have made significant progress toward saving our young men and young women. There is a scripture that says : "You can tell a tree by the fruit it bears". A good tree does not bear bad fruit. As a bad tree does not bear good fruit. Medensa is a good tree, and the people who come from that tree are good people. Sometimes when the tree is not tended correctly, then the fruit becomes rotten. The fruit is the best part of the tree as our young people are the best part of us. They must be honored as such. more later
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