What Blacks need to do now. . .
*Get their children to the library on a regular basis. I assigned a Black History Month project to my students and limited them to 2 internet websites. I told them they had to use books. I had a kid tell me he had not been to the library in 5 years. GTHOOH!!
Another kid cannot find his library card, I told him to ask his mother for hers; she does not have one!!
SAM.
*Teach your children about Black History beyond Martin, Malcolm, Harriet, Rosa. . . it makes no sense that these kids do not know who Gordon Parks is; have never heard of Lewis Lattimer or Garrett Morgan; that all the perm wearers of America have no clue who Madame C. J. Walker is.
*Show your kids ROOTS. . . oh and tell them that it is a book too. Last week, my Black fact was: Alex Haley, author of Roots, Queen, and Mama Flora's Family died. These kids were shocked that he wrote all of those books.
*Show your kids movies about the legacies of Blacks. This does not mean showing them Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next.
I mean show them ROOTS, QUEEN, ROSEWOOD, The Learning Tree, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc. etc. etc.
*Teach your kids some dayum manners. It pains me when I give a child something and they don't say thank you.
*Teach your kids that ignorance is NOT BLISS!!
*Value BOOKS and EDUCATION more than the BLING!!