The Land of my Ancestors.mp3

00:00:00 My mother's family has been on this continent.
00:00:05 For over 300 years.
00:00:09 My father's family arrived on this continent nearly 400 years ago.
00:00:15 Faced with oppression in Europe.
00:00:18 They indulged their fight or flight instincts.
00:00:21 And risk everything they had.
00:00:24 For a chance to build their own life out of the reach of the ruling class, my family.
00:00:32 Those that survived the long months journey.
00:00:34 Across the sea.
00:00:36 And the harsh winters that awaited them in the wilderness they set out to tame were adventurers and pioneers.
00:00:43 They settled the eastern seaboard.
00:00:46 And built the first communities in what would later.
00:00:50 Become the United States.
00:00:53 With their bare hands, they carved towns and cities out of the earth that still stand today.
00:01:02 As life became easier.
00:01:05 The softer men arrived.
00:01:08 And a new establishment begin.
00:01:10 To grow in these cities.
00:01:13 My family grew uneasy with the influence these velvet gloved aristocrats had.
00:01:19 And chose once more.
00:01:21 To venture into the wilderness to escape.
00:01:25 Again, they traveled W sometimes on foot.
00:01:29 For hundreds of miles through dangerous.
00:01:32 Uncharted lands that claimed.
00:01:33 The lives of many of them.
00:01:36 When I was a boy, my grandfather shared with me the journal of his great great grandfather, who was one of these.
00:01:45 Men, a pioneer that had LED settlers across the North American continent.
00:01:51 It was startling to read how frequently and easily.
00:01:56 He recorded the death.
00:01:58 Of a family member, including his own children.
00:02:02 Lost to disease of the elements, or some combination of the.
00:02:05 Two death was the price of freedom for.
00:02:07 Many of these ancestors of mine and they paid it without hesitation.
00:02:14 When I was young.
00:02:16 I had the opportunity.
00:02:17 To visit the remains of a cabin that my great, great grandfather.
00:02:20 Had built with his.
00:02:21 Own hands the.
00:02:23 Same harsh climate that had claimed the lives of three.
00:02:26 Of his children.
00:02:28 Had reduced the cabin to its foundation over the years, but I was still able to walk on the same dirt floor where my great grandfather played as a child and look at the same forests and mountain ranges he.
00:02:40 Saw every morning.
00:02:42 As he started his day in the land that his father had tamed land that my family has fought in war after war to defend land that they settled from coast to coast, east to West.
00:02:57 And now here I stand, a descendant of these men.
00:03:02 A man whose family.
00:03:03 Predates this nation by over a century, I'm told.
00:03:07 That all of this means nothing.
00:03:10 That we are just a nation of immigrants.
00:03:14 I am told by.
00:03:14 The families and the descendants of families.
00:03:17 Who came to?
00:03:17 This continent not to risk their lives and their wealth, but to collect the treasure and wealth that my family cultivated and provided families that rode gently down the river of my family.
00:03:30 'S blood that I.
00:03:33 Am an immigrant.
00:03:34 No different than they.
00:03:35 Are and to add insult to injury?
00:03:40 No different.
00:03:42 Than those who today violate the laws of my ancestors and the borders they fought and died to define.
00:03:50 Borders, they hoped.
00:03:51 Would protect their descendants.
00:03:55 As they seek to distort the history.
00:03:57 Of my people.
00:03:59 As they blame my family for slavery and practice, none of my ancestors.
00:04:03 Participated in and if they did, it was they who.
00:04:06 Were the indentured servants, not the masters?
00:04:09 As I see these carpetbaggers and these locusts come to harvest the fields.
00:04:14 My family plowed for centuries I feel.
00:04:18 Because it has been bred in my.
00:04:20 Bones but need.
00:04:21 To once again.
00:04:23 Venture out into the wilderness to escape the leeches.
00:04:31 But there's nowhere to go.
00:04:34 We can no longer flee to.
00:04:35 The West, we cannot act as our ancestors did by abandoning the cities we built to the parasites who have arrived.
00:04:44 Fleeing our communities and allowing them to feast upon.
00:04:47 The fruits of our labor while.
00:04:49 We search for new frontiers to tame and flee.
00:04:52 To preserve our freedom.
00:04:57 We have been.
00:04:58 Desperately looking for a solution to this growing feeling inside of us.
00:05:03 The same feeling that drove our ancestors across the.
00:05:07 Atlantic and then.
00:05:10 Across the continent.
00:05:12 An anxiety that drives the wild animal within to risk self harm to escape and that danger when the chances for survival begin to drop dangerously near.
00:05:28 There is nowhere to go this time.
00:05:32 And that.
00:05:32 Anxiety you feel building.
00:05:34 Up inside.
00:05:36 Is the wild animal that drove your ancestors into the wilderness slowly coming to the realization?
00:05:43 That it has become cornered.
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