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Buddy Broceratops

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The Importance of Adaptive Vitality

A professor of mine introduced me to this concept called adaptive vitality. And it's a thing that slaves and then ultimately just black people have advised along the way to keep them alive. They had to come up with a way that one code switch mean yeah, learn their language and speak their language in a way that will allow us to maneuver more fluidly from one world, the black one to the next. But also have our own language within that shit. That's where a lot of old Negro spirituals come from,. All these songs that we sang in church and stuff. A lot of songs came from because they were messages to each other. Yeah, capoeira as well. So there

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