If only we learn to appreciate things the way they are, we can have the best of what we want to achieve. We do not have to accept everything that is forced upon us. I belong to a people who suffered and experienced cultural oppression. They call us Congolese and it seemed we did not have the right to be called people. As a people, we have grown in size and spirit but our soul as a country and our values and beliefs were destroyed in a long history of foreign domination. The imperialists invented and devised myths to be written in our history, putting our race as inferior and a burden to the white race. They told us that the name Congolese was derived from the word monkey. We were under foreign domination for hundreds of years. Military conquerors enforced upon our ancestor’s laws which were so cruel. We were not supposed to be free because we did not have the will and the power to be free. (Nzongola-Ntalaja, 2002, p. 38) Through our experience, we can be better people and teachers to the young. Like the story “Roots”, Africans were brought to the New World as slaves but now they dominate every aspect of life in America and Europe. The former slaves are now professionals and leaders in many disciplines, in science and religion, and in other branches of learning. Our values are influenced by the imperialists of the past. Sometimes, I really feel that I should not talk with people of different color, although the institution I am in encourages me and my fellow Africans that we are now living in a world dominated by people with the capacity to have superior knowledge – and I, we, the Congolese, can attain superior knowledge if we want to. Education is superior knowledge and this can bring us to the level of the “conquerors”, the people who oppressed us for centuries. But even then, those who want to forever oppress us would like to prohibit us from having an education. Education is an inalienable right of all humans. I believe we have every right to have an education that can provide us the good life we deserve. I believe too, that those who deprive us of our right should educate themselves more. I am expressing my feeling because my people are still being discriminated upon even up to today. Some members of my family started to feel the gains of education. I told them we are the same as other people; we are equal as Belgians and the Whites. Some relatives and other people in our village have worsened negative feelings; their inferiority complex gets worse at times. They do not want to get out of our village, their enclave, so to speak. I tried to convince them that the more they isolate themselves the more they feel inferior. I cannot blame them. I feel what they feel even if I did not physically experience the years of oppression. I do not know whether my religion has helped me to be a better person although it is because of this religion that I feel the presence of God. Many of my relatives have embraced Christianity and somehow it has helped them find meaning in life. Belief in God helps us accept our state in life which can lead to healing. But something must first be corrected before the Congolese can fully accept Christianity. Whites believed they were responsible for the Christianization of the Congolese who are of “an infer