02.03.10

Start Black History Month Off Right

Posted in General at 9:41 pm by Travis

The first thing we do is start highlighting black figures that we have never heard of.  Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with this, but I believe that “hindsight is 20/20″.  In other words, to clearly see the present you have to look at the past.  Dr. Carter Woodson  who we consider the father  of Black History Month wrote a deeply thought provoking book that  many quote the title of, but have never read, “The Mis-Education of the Negro“.   Although this text was published in 1935, it is highly relative and prophetic for today’s issues surrounding black America.  Anybody who is especially interested in educational reform would do good to read this book or even buying the audio book for your iPod/iPhone/Touch/iPad or whatever you listen to these days.  So this month’s lesson people is go and read The Mis-Education of the Negro and then tell me if you agree with what many are calling educational reform, empowerment, and post-racial America.  Peace