It’s fascinating to find that all areas of knowledge possess a means or ways of knowing. As mentioned in Dr Beatty’s presentation to understand the real history of Africans around the Americas and throughout the Diaspora one must understand what lens one is looking from, what one is looking for and what one is looking at. As history writers have distorted many cases of African History and we find shortage of documentation from scholars about African heritage and culture before their arrival in the Americas. We have to look at each sub colony of African arrival differently. We learned in the lecture that many Africans were brought to the Dominican or Caribbean and elsewhere. So for us to learn about the so called “lost history” we must look at each group with a learners lens not a knower’s lens. We must look at how each group brought its own identity with them and how today the African community has contributed to American culture as a whole without even noticing. Today the so called American music and other cultural norms have an African heritage. Although historians may not wish to discuss it it’s up to us to know that African culture was not destroyed but is flowing around us. We are floating in a sea of Africana heritage, from out daily values to cultures, to the music we listen in our ipod. This shows that although American society sees some of the customs as its own it’s actually the African community that has contributed their identity to further strengthen Americanism. So it should not be forgotten that African culture and traditions still live within us and we should embrace them with open hands rather than cold shoulders for our identity marks who we are and who we are not.