i am not sure if i have missed the boat for this thread but thought i would raise it as a topic of interest, as my son who is 8 is more aware of black history through my teachings then he is from what he learns at school. (Despite, it being a part of my role as a Black women raising a black man)

He is a very level headed aquarian boy who is as inqusistive as they come, i allowed him to watch roots when he tried to tell me that white people were slaves, teachmgs he had been taught from school.

after putting the school in their place i thought it best to give him a little black history, now i know the author was exposed as being a bit of a fraud in terms of his interpretations/copyrights etc, but i wanted him to see and know the roots of slavery.

But my curiosity still remains as to why it is not taught in schools, are white education policy makers to ashamed to include it, is it irrelevant to them now? Yet the history they teach is engolfed in lies e.g the basic everyday things we use i.e brushes, telephones, light bulds were invented by black people, the reaarch & creation into open heart surgery was performed by a black person. i will upload a poem on poerty & spoken word forum that is so educational i would recommend it for all teachings.


all comments welcome.