ATH: IWDM “Common Language Syntax & The African Plight: Seeing the Connection”

"When a person has no sense of originality.  Originality comes from the word “origin.”  When the origin is lost and the connection is not made then the victim carries the burden of a lost identity.  That is what we have carried all these centuries and generations that we have been in this situation.  We have carried a “lost identity.”  As long as we sense the loss as a burden it will be a problem for us.  But if we can ever confront the loss with our rational mind and try to dispel the darkness in that situation so that we can understand it, it will not be necessary for a people to go back to what they were in order to have a sense of their identity or a sense of freedom or a sense of an originality.  It is only necessary that they confront it with their rational mind and accept it, explore it, and examine it, so that you will know it and understand it, then you can either try to reconstitute that life or you can say it is not worth it.  

Begin where you are or from the reality that you are in as the realm of your reality.  Then you will have a sense of your originality -- an identity that will satisfy you and not the burden of a loss of identity.  That is what has happened to us naturally.  I do not carry the burden of a lost identity."