Adolescent Tanerra Collins Speaks at Freddie Gray Rally

At the May 2, 2015 National Freddie Gray Rally, young, adolescent, Tanerra Collins, speaking so well talking hard truths, until stating "you brought us over here on those slave ships." 

No one alive had anything to do with those slave ships. As long as young blacks and other people believe that anyone alive today is responsible for what happened over 150-years-ago, massive suffering of social ills shall continue. 

Legal slavery in America was ended because a majority of white Americans opposed it. 

Everyone needs to accept the fact that there were plenty of white people held in legal slavery back then, too. If a person is the child of a black parent and a white parent, they are half white. Right?! Then that child grows up and has a child with a white person, that child is three-fourths white - quadroon. Making them more of a white person enslaved than a black person enslaved. Next in lineage were people one-eighth black & seven-eighths white - known as octoroons. Octoroon women were often used in brothels and as sex slaves in the homes of slave owners. Some states' laws said that anyone with any amount of African ancestry can be held as a slave. Which, according to my family's oral history, includes me - because it's been said, amongst several past generations, that we have an African ancestor. If I can ever afford to take a DNA Test, I'll find out. 

No one has a right to lay any of the blame or guilt for what happened to people over a century-and-a-half ago on anyone today. Many people who are only seen as white Americans today, may very well have direct ancestors who were slaves back then, and if slavery was still legal, many of us who are considered to be white people would be held in slavery, too.

[Watch this in HD on Full Screen, if you can.]

  Photography by David Robert Crews 
{a.k.a. ursusdave}