As an alumnus, reading about Georgetown’s new policy to actively engage as well as to structurally change its campus culture to become more inclusive makes me feel encouraged and excited. Within a few years, I’m hoping Black students can feel more accepted.
Watching Roots, which was recently shown on the History Channel, changed my views on my roots. The film reminds me that I owe it, and we all owe it, to our ancestors to become everything that they dreamed we could.
While some have been asking why we should continue to discuss the slave narrative in “post-racial” America, the actors and producers of “Underground” challenge us to answer why we shouldn’t.
