In “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” by Kim Gallon, Black Digital Humanities should be founded on lost Black literary texts. I like this point because I feel like the dehumanizing of Black people is heavily rooted in African cultures not having a “written” word. While we now know this to be true, the narrative for many years suggested that Black people had no texts at all. The written word is widely considered an indicator of an advanced civilization. Without texts a culture is generally considered primitive or inimitable. There is no value seen in these kinds of cultures and therefore are not considered human. By recovering lost literature, Black digital humanities can thereby lay the groundwork of de-stigmatizing Black studies by asserting the legitimacy of historical Black cultures. It can refute colonial views of Black history and create new narratives from primary Black sources and voices.