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Welcome! to The Gathering The Harvest website. As you peruse through the site you will meet the descendants of Charlie Samuel (1866-1934, Camden, SC) Though created with our family in mind, all are welcome. Family Forms Scholarship
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The
Black Family Pledge
by Maya Angelou
BECAUSE we have
forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor.
BECAUSE we have
lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling
in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
BECAUSE we have
banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray.
BECAUSE the
old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our
children cannot hear us crying.
BECAUSE we
have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our
befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor
understand.
BECAUSE we
have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates,
an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard
the loveless"
Therefore we
pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to
embrace our lowliest, to keep company
with our loneliest, to educate our
illiterate, to feed our starving,
to clothe our ragged, to
do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our
brothers and sisters.
We ARE our
brothers and sisters.
IN HONOR of
those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and
in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless
desolation, We
make this pledge.
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