JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS - Can you imagine the jubilant joy of a people who had only known captivity? Who were born into captivity – who’s parents and grandparents and great grandparents only knew captivity? I recall a conversation between Kunta Kinte and Fiddler in the movie “Roots.” Kunta, a newly enslaved African, was talking to Fiddler about freedom. However, freedom was a foreign concept to Fiddler, who had been born into slavery. But, as he listened to Kunta’s ramblings about freedom and as he cleaned the wounds from Kunta’s brutally ripped back from the beating he received for refusing to acknowledge his slave name, Fiddler gained a fresh appreciation for “freedom.”
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