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DESCRIPTION:Memorial Day Weekend and African Unity Weekend - Historic Negro Hill, 
 Mormon Island and Negro Bar - 175th Anniversary of our California Gold 
 Mining District \n\nReclaiming our Past:  Restoring our unique California 
 from Slavery to Freedom Legacy\n\nAn Eagle Story \n\n\n\nTHE SONS AND 
 DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA (SADA) INC.\n(AFRICANIZATION SOCIETY)\n2509 22ND 
 STREET, NE\nWASHINGTON, D.C. 2001802121\n\nOne of the precursors to whom he 
 referred was Dr. J.E.K. Aggrey, his former teacher, the famous African 
 educator and pastor, whose major contribution to the young Africans of his 
 day was perhaps his insistence on self-reliance and self-respect, his 
 conviction that his racial brethren should raise their sights. This he 
 exemplified in his life and in his lectures to African students here and in 
 Africa and places where descendants of Africa live, especially, his 
 celebrated “Parable of the Eagle”:\n\nA certain man went through a 
 forest seeking any bird of interest he might find. He caught a young eagle, 
 brought it home and put it among his fowls and ducks and turkeys, and gave 
 it chicken’s food to eat even though it was an eagle, the King of 
 birds.\n\nFive years later a naturalist came to see him and after passing 
 through his garden, said: “That bird is an eagle, not a 
 chicken”.\n\n“Yes”, said its owner, “but I have trained it to be a 
 chicken. It is no longer an eagle, it is a chicken even though it measures 
 fifteen feet from tip to tip of its wings”\n\n“No”, said the 
 naturalist, “it is an eagle still, it has the heart of an eagle, and I 
 will make it soar high up to the heaven”.\n\n“No”, said the owner, 
 “it is a chicken and it will never fly”.\n\nThey agreed to test it. The 
 naturalist picked up the eagle, held it up, and said with great intensity: 
 “Eagle, you are an eagle, you belong to the sky and not to this earth, 
 stretch forth your wings and fly”.\n\nThe eagle turned this way and that 
 way and then looking down, saw the chickens eating their food, and down it 
 jumped.\n\nThe owner said, “I told you it was a chicken”.\n\n“No”, 
 said the naturalist, “it was an eagle. Give me another chance tomorrow 
 and I will make it fly”.\n\nSo the next day he took it to the top of the 
 house and said “ Eagle, you are an eagle, stretch forth your wings and 
 fly”. But again the eagle seeing the chickens feeding, jumped down and 
 fed with them.\n\nThe owner said “I told you it was a 
 chicken”.\n\n“No”, said the naturalist, “it is an eagle and I will 
 make it fly tomorrow”.\n\nThe next morning, he rose early and took the 
 eagle outside the city, away from the houses, to the foot of a high 
 mountain. The sun was just rising, gliding the top of the mountain with 
 gold and every creature was glistening in the glory of that beautiful 
 morning.\n\nHe picked up the eagle and said to it. “Eagle you are an 
 eagle, you belong to the sky and not to this earth, stretch forth your 
 wings and fly !”\n\nThe eagle looked around and trembled as if new life 
 were coming to it; but it did not fly. The naturalist then made it look 
 straight at the sun. Suddenly, it stretched out its wings and with the 
 screech of an eagle, mounted higher and higher and never returned.\n\nIt 
 was an eagle, though it has been made to think that it was a chicken.\n\nMy 
 people of Africa, we were created in the image of God but men have made us 
 think that we are chicken and we still think we are, but we are not. We are 
 eagles. Stretch forth your wings and fly. Do not be content with the food 
 of the chicken.\n\nThis story was presented by Kofi Agyapong, President and 
 was read by Carolyn Kennedy, Vice President of SADA. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/26/18866656.php
SUMMARY:2024 Memorial Day / African Unity Weekend Reclaiming our Stolen Legacy: An Eagle Story
LOCATION:Lakeside Cemetery \nHistoric Folsom District\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/26/18866656.php
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