From time to time I meet a person who makes me think that more of that person is exactly what this world needs. Stacy Swimp is one of those rare and heartening finds. Please meet a man with whom I am proud to associate in various online Tea Party settings.
I am a proud American who just so happens to be of African descent (I am the great, great, great, great grandson of Peter Adams, who was an African Slave on a South Carolina plantation). I am a black man who does indeed embrace the absolute best of the values of my ancestors and I have learned from the mistakes as well.
I have made up my mind wherever I go, I shall go as a man and not as a slave. I shall always aim to be courteous and mild in department toward all whom I come in contact, at the same time firmly and constantly endeavoring to assert my equal rights as a man and as a brother.”- Frederick Douglass
I am, furthermore, a Black man one who finds utter disgust in the absolute moral surrender of millions of Black Americans today, who, unlike Frederick Douglass and unlike my ancestor, Peter Adams, have no personal experience with chattel slavery or Jim Crow and, thus, have no excuses for not fully embracing the responsibilities of American citizenship. I am, therefore, compelled to write a personal testimony, that I might demonstrate that in today’s America, if we, like Frederick Douglass, make up our mind that we shall, wherever we go, go as a man and not a slave, there are no permanent boundaries around us, that we do not place around ourselves.
By: Stacy Swimp
Read the whole thing. There is an amazing story here, and a man you’ll be happy to “friend” over on Facebook.
