CONCERN SEEK YOU FROM GETTING
THE CARE.
>>> FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY
MONTH CELEBRATING THE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN U.S.
HISTORY.
IT WAS A WEEK IN 1926 PUSH THE
BY HIS MAN HARVARD HISTORIAN
CARTER WOODSON.
THEY WERE HELPED IN PEOPLE THAT
SHAPED THE STUDY OF AMERICAN
HISTORY.
IF A RACE HAS NO HISTORY OR
TRADITION, IT IS A NEGLIGIBLE
FACTOR IN THE TAUGHT OF THE
WORLD AND STANDS IN DANGER OF
BEING EXTERMINATED.
>> THE WEAK AS A MONTH WE LOOK WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT.
>> WHEN PEOPLE SAY WHY BLACK
HISTORY MONTH.
WE JUST WANT EQUITY AND
EQUALITY.
>> AND APPRECIATION FOR THE NOTE
E AND THEY HAVE PLAY ADDS ROLE
IN WHAT WE CALL TODAY THE U.S. S
OF AMERICA.
>> WHITE PEOPLE HAVE PLAYED A
ROLE IN THE UNITED STATES BUT
WHY IS THERE NO WHITE HISTORY
MONTH.
>> INTEREST IS NO WHITE HISTORY
MONTH MOST TAUGHT IS A WHITE
VERSION, YOU SEE THEM IN BOOKS.
>> WHITE PEOPLE AND PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.
UNIVERSITIES.
GOVERNMENT.
>> IT IS A NARRATIVE THAT LEAVES
BLOCKS -- BLACKS UNTOLD OR
UNACKNOWLEDGED WHEN IT COMES TO
VIOLENCE AND THE WHITES BEING
THE AGGRESSORS.
ONCE IS THE RACE RIOTING IN
DETROIT.
>> THE FIRS OF THE 1960s.
THEY WERE EVERYWHERE.
BUT THE STORIES IN 1940s THEY
ARE DIFFERENT.
1943 OF THE VIOLENCE.
ITS WAS COMMON OF MOSTLY WHITE
PEOPLE STRIKING OUT AT THAT’S
FROM THE MOMENT OF THE END EFFICIENT SLAVERY.
EFFICIENT SLAVERY.
AND SO, THAT IS NOT TAUGHT
WELL.
I RIVERED IN THE AREA MY LIFE
AND NEVER READ THAT STORY.
AND IT IS HARD TO MAKE SENSE OF
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1967 WATER
KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED IN 1977
AND 1943.
IN AND THEY WERE PUT IN FRONT OF
THE PEOPLE BEFORE WE GOT POWER.
>> WHAT DO WE NEED TO COME
TOGETHER WHERE WE DON’T NEED A
BLACK HISTORY MONTH?
>> ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE
BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT.
THEY WERE YOUNG AND A LOT OF
THEM WHITE.
20, 25, 30.
RESEPTIVE TO THE MESSAGE, -
RECEPTIVE TO THE MESSAGE AND
AMERICA THROUGH ITS PORTRAYAL OF
PEOPLE, IT’S NOT BEEN AS TRUE.
PEOPLE GET IT.
IT’S NOT AN EITHER/OR IT IS
ABOUT INCLUSION AND I HOPE MOVING FORWARD IS THAT THE
MOVING FORWARD IS THAT THE
SPIRIT CONTINUES, IT THAT
INSTITUTIONS IN OTHER
DISCUSSIONS.
>> RECOGNIZE A LOT HAS BEEN LEFT
OUT.
>> I THINK WE’LL HAVE TO RETHINK
ABOUT HOW WE TELL THE STORY OF
THE U.S. AND CONSTITUTIONALIZE
THAT IN MONUMENTS AND TEXT
TEXTBOOKS BEF WE NEED THAT EXTRA
REMINDER.
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MONTH.
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