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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
Unfortunately this generation of African Americans (and I'm sure there are some exceptions) don't know who they are and really don't care to know.
In working with high school students and even the undergrads currently, I have discovered (and these are just my observations) that this generation is the "We are the world"/I just want to be like everyone else/I have no respect or regard for those that came before me (even though I'm standing on their shoulders)/ I don't really care to learn my history, that's the past/ it's not that serious (because nothing regarding the preservation of our culture is serious)...generation.
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I have seen this as well. Several of my Black students went so far as to say that they thought that celebrating Black History month was stupid because there was no white History month. Mind you they were taking on this argument from their fellow white classmates. so the Black students had begun cosigning on that argument saying that they weren't interested in learning about their history because "that's old stuff."