Is our history relevant anymore?

[reddawn18]

I agree with what everyone had said. Personally, I didn't know alot about our history until this year.

It was when I picked up a book about DST history that piqued my interest in our history. I spent a good two months learning where I come from and about our "hang ups" as a people and how it relates to me.

It was extremely enlightening and woke me up to this thing we called life. I am a tad younger than most of the posters on this board (HS graduate of 1995, College in 1999), but in high school and grade school we learned mostly about Martin Luther King. It felt like he was Black History. He was the most promident in my mind at this time.

But when I spent those two months reading, I learned my own significance in this world. It has helped me let go of my personal baggage and sh!t to become a more rounded person.

As for a separate curriculum, I am not in favor with that. I think it should be part of the overall curriculum so that we can learn the significance we play in the over all scheme of things. Is it the parents responsibility, in part. But if they are not taught it or want to learn it, how are the kids suppose to learn anything?