Webster defines a scribe, in a historical reference, as a person who copies out documents. However, in the lecture presentation it is obvious that a scribe is so much more than this. We were educated on the history of slaves in Egypt and all that they did which disproves much of Europeans will to say that they created and began everything. We may not have been speaking English, but we were communicating with a educated and formal language type in order to leave an account of history for those to come and to tell various stories.
Contemporarily, we usually believe that being a scribe or referring to a scribe is constricted by professions like journalists and writers but this is not. Regardless of ones major, job title, job description or training we are all scribes in our own personal right and we all have a obligation to your communities to take our talents/tasks and share them with our people and try to help them do better. We should not learn our crafts and simply use them for our own selfish gain, we must share what we learn just like the various people who are honored on Howard's campus daily such as: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Alaine Locke, and so many others.
Thus, whether our major is sociology, english, biology, applied sciences, architecture, we are all considered scribes and like our ancestors and various iconic, we must master our field and act as the scribes we are all destined to be and share knowledge with those around us.
Daisa Gainey
Sociology '14
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