This is an invitation to the Jewish diaspora and the African diaspora to see and hear with their hearts, not their heads, and not even though the lens of religion or traumatic memory of the events that occurred over the past 500 years and beyond.
I have a desire to see us all whole again and embrace the undeniable and long hidden truth of our connectedness. The ancient bloodline between us is speaking and revealing itself. The Native Americans acknowledge this existence of “blood memory”. Native American Storyteller and Journalist, Mary Annette Pember shares the Ojibwe people’s definition of the blood memory in her article published in the Daily Yonder, 16 July 2010. “The Ojibwe understand that blood memory is their ancestral (genetic) connection to their language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling they experience when they are near these things.”
Continue reading Tikkun Olam / Ubuntu: We are one – by Cindy Steede Almeida