Dr Felder

Dr. Felder lecture was yet again another lecture that I really enjoyed. He is a very influential man and after the lecture I was very inspired. I wasn’t really in a good mood coming into class in the beginning and he really opened my eyes to some new things that I have never been exposed to. During the lecture he pointed out a couple people while they were talking while he was speaking. I respect him a lot for that because that shows that he is really into what he was teaching to us. He was personable person and made it easy to pay attention and listen to what he was saying. What I took out the most from the lecture was the freedom and justice that he spoke about and the Black Diaspora. I think that freedom was what the main point of the whole lecture was. During the lecture he made several different references to biblical characters. Through the lecture he explained that we basically have no freedom. What we consider freedom is not freedom at all. The people that brought us over here from Africa determine what we considered to be freedom and it is technically limited to what they say it is. During the lecture Dr. Felder kind of got personal and spoke about the history of his name and told how his mother was raped by his father’s brother. He talked about how he and his brother was Cain and Abram and he always wondered why.