A Brutal and Bloody Battle Of The Soul We Should All Know About
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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"We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields." - Yaa Asantewaa. She bellowed these words, a charge to her people. They wouldn’t bow out from this fight - they couldn’t. The liberation of their very souls depended on it.
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| 0:00.0 | We will fight to the last of us falls in the battlefields. |
| 0:09.0 | Yaa Asantewey bellowed these words, a charge to her people. |
| 0:14.0 | They wouldn't bow out from this fight. They couldn't. |
| 0:18.0 | The liberation of their very souls depended on it. |
| 0:23.0 | This is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in struggle. |
| 0:32.0 | Eslavery ended. Britain was determined to continue colonizing Ghana, beginning with the Asante people. |
| 0:40.0 | They went after the Asante's most sacred symbol, the Golden Stool. |
| 0:46.0 | The Golden Stool possesses and protects the literal soul of the Asante people. |
| 0:53.0 | You can imagine the Asante's disgust and rage when Britain demanded they surrender the stool. |
| 1:02.0 | Collectively, Asante chiefs gathered to prepare for war. |
| 1:07.0 | But some lost faith knowing it was likely they would lose. |
| 1:12.0 | Their standing tall and proud amongst these crestfallen men was the one and only. |
| 1:19.0 | Yaa Asantewey. Yaa Asantewey bellowed. |
| 1:23.0 | Is it true that the bravery of the Asante is no more? |
| 1:27.0 | If you men of Asante will not go forward, we the women will. |
| 1:33.0 | I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. |
| 1:37.0 | We will fight to the last of us falls in the battlefields. |
| 1:42.0 | Inspired, the chiefs vowed to fight for Asante liberation until their dying breath. |
| 1:49.0 | Led by Yaa Asantewey, the Asante resisted Britain for months before Yaa Asantewey and other chiefs were captured and exiled. |
| 1:59.0 | White supremacy wants to own our bodies and our souls. |
| 2:04.0 | Yaa Asantewey knew it's only when they own our souls that we're doomed. |
| 2:10.0 | With white supremacy constantly coming for us, what are we doing to ensure we're ready for the fight? |
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