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What Does Peace Mean to Adrian Council? · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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  What is peace for you? Peace? What's peace for you? All right?
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  Peace for me is having a full understanding of who we are and whose
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  we are. UM, we can move forward with a deeper knowledge and appreciation
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  and gratitude for our history. UM. In two thousand and twelve, and
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  anticipation of the m of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of emancipation, we
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  wrote something called the African American Cultural Narrative. This is our story in two
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  hundred and eighty one words. UM, We're doing everything that we possibly can
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  to see to it that that we can that we can teach this to our
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  children, not only in the schools, but at the homes and in the
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  churches. So when as we say the dawn of freedom, that journey continues
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  with the knowledge that with the knowledge that you know back in the sixties,
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  in the fifties, when we were fighting for those civil rights, we are
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  fighting for those civil rights the people. It was a black and white country.
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  Today it's multi cultural, it's multi ethnic. The African American, the
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  Black community of the United States is multi cultural and multi ethnic. So it's
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  important that our young people know their story. Who are you and you know
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  and who are you, that question is going to be asked. So we
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  have to be able to see to it that our kids respond and the positive
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  and the affirmative. Yes, we're the mighty descendants of the Great Emancipation of
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  eighteen sixty three, beloved sons and daughters of the Most High God. We
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  have to build our story or on you know, like on truth. And
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  yes, we have a triumphant history and a triumphant story that if we don't
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  pass this along to our children, it certainly hurts all of America, and
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  all Americans should know the African American cultural narrative. So we have that available.
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  It's online, you can again download it, but we have it in
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  several different forms. We have it in video form and we have an imprinted
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  form. But we want to see to it that our community, our young
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  people in our community, by the time they are thirteen years old, they'll
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  know how to recite it, they'll know how to speak it, they'll know
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  to commit it to memory and comprehension, comprehend it. And that's peace,
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  you know, that is with giving your children a knowledge of who they are
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  in this country. It's it's also a part of the American identity because it's
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  a part of it. So you know, one could say, well,
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  you know, historically the cultural narrative may not be all that accurate, but
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  also but it still is the truth. Just like um in about in biblical
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  terms, Jonah and the whale. You know, um, that was not
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  necessarily a factual story, but it was a narrative, and so we have
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  to teach a narrative. Gotcha, beautiful, Thank you,