Stanley Charles III

Ms. Rayes

English A

23 September 2015                                                           

Cultural language wiped away

English is the only languish I’ve known seen the day I could seek. But it does not come easy to me. I read it and hear it but it ain’t easy to understand. I speak what some my broken Language but it ain’t my first language, this broken English. One thing about English to me you must understand it is not my native language my language comes from a place in Western Africa I do not know where, but I know it has to.  It is to believe slaves were brought to America at the beginning of the 19 century. Slaves came from Western Sahara all the way to Angola this was known as a Slave Coast. The African people were not the only people enslaved so were Brazilian and Caribbean people along with people from Europe and Asia. But unlike immigrants from other places most Africans in that were brought so the United States had little or no records of their ancestor’s lives and histories. Gloria Anzaldua said “Yet the struggle of identities continues, the struggle of borders is our reality still.” Much of my culture has been wiped away during the slave era, never identify my true native language.