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Re-Claiming Our Birthright,
by Promoting & Supporting Multilingualism
in Black-American Communities

A Call to All Black Americans to
Reclaim Your
Birthright!
" The enslavement of African peoples in the Americas
has resulted in the stripping away of our histories,
narratives, human dignity, self worth, ambitions, and
our language & cultural identities.

This enslavement has also resulted in all of us becoming
afflicted with an “imposed amnesia” regarding the
innately endowed ability to speak more than just one
language - English.

As we try to recapture all that we have been stripped of,
may we also find it within ourselves to recognize and
reclaim   our   innately   endowed   ability   to   become
multilingual in this lifetime,   and thus re-owning our
Human and African Birthright . . .

. . . becoming multilingual as our Brothers and
Sisters are throughout the African Diaspora."

            Richard de Meij, Octalingual Polyglot
              CT Council of Language Teachers’
             2018/19 CT Language Teacher of the Year