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QUOTE]Originally posted by Phasad1913
Well, I think there is a lot of discussion about slavery as well as the positive aspects of the Black American experience during and throughout Black History Month. Are you asking that there be more observance of slavery as a period of history in America? Not that I necessarily have a problem with that, I am just trying to get clarification on what you would like to see happen. [/QUOTE]
I would disagree with you. Black History Month has become sort the same dog & pony show every year. By no means would I trivialize the work and legacy of Brother Dr. Martin Luther King, but is more to black history than him
The youth of our country especially need to know what has come before them. They need to know of the Denmark Vessey rebellion, or how Liberia was founded, about Dred Scott, about the genocidal mental deciamtion of a group of people. How can we possibly talk about issues today such as Affirmative Action if we don't even know what Affirmative Action is supposed to fix.
One thing people need to know about slavery is that it wasn't just a Southern practice, that Brown University was built with blood money of slaves, that Aetna Insurance corporation ensured slaves, that there were riots in New York City were mobs of poor whites lynched blacks during the Civil War.
States such as Maine, Missouri, and Kansas were forged out of the debate over slavery. The University of Alabama article and the responses are pure examples of how we as a country, of all races, have never faced our country's legacy. The strides that the University of Alambama is taking (or at least the recommendations) are highly commendable- not beacuse it's going above and beyond the call of duty, but because it's the right thing to do.
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