While reading the first 30 chapters of Lion’s Blood I was
filled with all types of different emotions. The first feeling I had was
confusion when the protagonists Aidan, describes his experience of middle
passage. It was hard to imagine that this story was being told about a little
white boy and his people. My mind just could not comprehend that this was not
happening to people of color. All I could picture in my mind when I read was
the image of black men, women and children and this left me very disturbed. Why
could I not imagine this story from a white perspective? As I continued to read
about Kai and his great noble family, I tried to imagine black people holding
superior positions and conquering new land. This was not so hard to imagine in
my mind though it was at times challenging. For me the most eye opening part of
the novel is when Kai and Aidan were being taught about the great pharaohs of
Egypt by Babatunde. Babatunde pulls out a scroll with a drawing of and a Pharaoh
who looks like a white man! I am not sure if it is Kai or Aidan who asks this
question but the novel states “could the Great Pharaoh actually be closer in
blood to Aidan than Kai”? I was just as shocked as Kai and Aidan when I read
this part of the novel. It was then that I began to question how much of our
history do we really know. I think about this not just as an African American
but as a human being. How much of human history has been kept from all of the
people of the world and or forgotten in order to keep us from knowing our true
reality?
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