This Powerful Folktale Tells An Important Lesson on Black Unity
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
The Tate family was larger than most in colonial Cameroon. With sixteen children all with different personalities and identities, there were constant disagreements. It’s what happened when they worked together that still inspires us today.
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| 0:29.4 | mascots. The Tate family was larger than most in colonial Cameroon. |
| 0:38.1 | With 16 children, all with different personalities and identities, there were constant disagreements. |
| 0:46.3 | It's what happened when they worked together that still inspires us today. |
| 0:51.3 | This is two minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:55.0 | John Benedict Tate was a craftsman who built a successful business to support his family. |
| 1:08.0 | He and his wife Mary had 16 children. |
| 1:12.0 | Known to the wealthy and commoners alike, they were called the family for society in miniature four. |
| 1:20.0 | These child's personality matched a trait of society. |
| 1:23.5 | They were exuberant and distinct. |
| 1:25.8 | Everyone knew them. |
| 1:26.9 | The personalities loomed so large that their father changed |
| 1:30.0 | the name of his business empire from Benedict's to the Tate's so that all of his children |
| 1:36.9 | were represented. Dick Tate, the oldest son, set the rules for the day to the choccurin of irritate. |
| 1:45.0 | Twins devastate and agitate schemed together to ruin a good time. |
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