[Jill1228]

What she said! I was a history major too. Also I look forward to the beginning of the year. I am a postage stamp fan, so one thing I LOVE is to see who is going to be featured on the Black Heritage Stamp. It is even more interesting when Postal workers ask me the significance of the person.

For example, last year I lived in Blaine, WA. Town of <3000. 5 stoplights.
Blaine is pretty much for their SMALL but strong school system. The other thing they are known for is being the Peace Arch Town and Border Town...go any farther and you are in Canada. (I could walk to the end of my street, hop the fence and I was on Zero Ave in Canada)...

Also cheap gas, and dairy products...Canadians come down in droves to get "the hookup"

Last year I went into the Blaine Post office (they have a large post office for a small town)

Thurgood Marshall was on the Black Heritage Stamp. I was SO excited to see him featured that I ordered 2 books. So the postal worker asks me what was his significance. So I told her. She knew he was a judge but did not know that he was the atty who took on Brown v Board of Ed.

So yeah folx need to be educated. I LOVE learning about Black History

Originally posted by aurora_borealis
As a person *this* close to a history degree I wish the content would be changed to show that "Black History" is part of everyone's history in the U.S. Black people have been here hundreds of years, and though not all experiences are shared, the history of all people in this land is shared by all of us. I am one of those people that find new knowledge to be exciting and invigorating, and to be honest I have read the same things over and over again about the white settlers at Jamestown etc and it is starting to get BORING, so I seek knowledge on my own or when I am blessed with a professor that wants us to be aware and educated.

P.S. TonyB06 I got another one for you...someone got their hands on "Roots" and said..."Oh that cloth black people wear, is Kunta Kinte cloth!!!" (said after the Kente cloth display in Anchorage). I wouldn't doubt they would think Chaka Khan and Shaka Zulu are cousins, or maybe Ghengis Khan