Reflection Day 2

Today my class and I went over Langston Hughes. I already heard of him before, so I was pretty familiar with his work. We analyzed his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. After the analysis, we had a brief discussion about genealogy. Mr. Reese showed his family tree to the class, and the thing that caught my attention was when he said that black people's history has been erased so that one can only trace their family back to 1822. That statement may be true for the majority of black people, but it's not true to all. I created a family tree of my own and traced back to 1776. Other than that, I would say I enjoyed the class today.

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