About Christopher D. Odom
About me., and who am I? I could
tell you about my successes in business and education. I could
tell you about my failures. I could tell you of all the places I’ve
traveled to and inform you of my worldly treasures. This is not who I
am nor is it what I’m about.
I am the people who bravely
walked across the ice bridge to populate the world from the great continent
of Africa where all life began. I am the Zulu the Masai. I am the men and
women who were savagely stolen from their lands and placed into slavery
throughout the globe. I am the thousands of men who died fighting for
freedom in the civil war whose reward was segregation and lynching. I am
the men and women, who lived and died trying to survive in a land they built
and were not welcome to stay in,
I
am the men who died in World War II fighting the evils of Hitler only to
come home to evils of Jim Crow. I am the freedom fighters whose strength
was so great that they allowed dogs to bite them and allow fire hoses turned
on them to empower the future with civil rights.
I
am the convertible top, the traffic light and the multitudes of inventions
created by men and women of Africa decent. I am the doctors and lawyers and
I am the crack head and the criminal. I am the home owner and the welfare
family. I am the strong beautiful single Black mother and I am the drunk
and skirt chaser, I am the person running from who I am and I am the proud
Black man standing in your face..
I
am the child in the ghetto with no hope for future and success and I am the
privileged child who is expected to be a success. I am a sum total to all
my people. Those who had struggled those who have failed and those who have
succeed. I am the sum total of every black man and woman in the past, the
present and into the future. What I have is because of them. What I am
about is knowing where I came from, what I live with and what I’ll have in
the future.
All
my people is who I am!
contact:
pscdo@pridesoaring.com |