SER BOXLEY TELLS
SUPERINTENDENT WENDELL SIMPSON GO BACK AND ADD NATCHEZ TRACE’S BLACK HISTORY
Greetings Wendell!
This forwarded email contains several statements relative to press releases,
newspaper articles and a communication to Senator Lott regarding the absence of
preservation, presentation and interpretation of African descendants history on
the part of the Natchez Trace Parkway. The last item included is the full and
unedited content of my Top of the Morning article submitted to the Natchez
Democrat.
This article and my comments to others and to Lott will be posted at:
www.forksoftheroads.net/
. It will be a posted item remaining
there for public consumption. The Web page has had 8,000 hits in a three-year
period and is gaining in notoriety.
Congratulations on your successful ceremonies for the extension of the Natchez
Trace Parkway into Natchez and its completion near Clinton. You were a face of
all smiles and elation on May 21, 2005 in Natchez. You had finished what others
started, but left African descendants history out.
I hope you can make your own Natchez Trace Parkway legacy by going back and
developing and presenting the African descendants’ history of the Natchez Trace.
You can start with the plantations that were along the Natchez Trace that had
enslaved people on them, the cemeteries that hold the remains of enslaved and
non-enslaved African descendants and the Forks of the Roads enslavement markets
sites that were the terminus of the 1800 on Natchez Trace that came into Natchez
on Old Washington Road.
I am in contact with a University Professor in Tennessee who is an expert with
African descendant cemeteries relative to their being used to bring alive the
history of African descendants and their communities that once existed.
Should you be interested in moving ahead with bringing the Natchez Trace "Black"
history through the back door, we can help.
Trent Lott's omission of "African American" history being presented by the
Natchez Trace at the Natchez ceremony was well noted by my person. His
mentioning of Alcorn State University as such history while listing all the
others directly connected with the Trace was indeed a long stretch of his
limited knowledge of African descendants history and a token gesture to cover up
for my pointing out such absence in my Top of the Morning article.
I know
someone had him to put his letter in the Democrat after the fact because I had
messed with certain white folk sacred cow, the Natchez Trace Parkway. "Sacred
cows are made to be messed with," especially, when those sacred cows make it
look like whites and the poor "Native Americans" get an honorable mention, did
all the development.
Ser Seshs Ab Heter-CM Boxley
Founder/Researcher, African Americans Research Heritage Program Since 1966.
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Copyright © 2006.
Ser Seshs Ab Heter-Clifford M. Boxley, Natchez,
Mississippi. All Rights Reserved.
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