A People's Long Story Fits Fabric Of Nation

An african-american columnist in my state's largest newspaper wishes BHM wasn't necessary. i agree. but it has been necessary for me. there are so many things clamoring for high priority in my life. fortunately, i love history, and i do plenty of americna civil war reading, so researching black history was not a huge shift for me. i think forcing myself to blog on a different topic in black history every day enlarged my world. but in the past, i've also ignored it. and there are sad examples of it being half-heartedly celebrated, as he points out towards the end of his column. he writes, "A picture of the school's smiling multi-cultural director was attached to a poster promoting Black History Month. The promotion mentioned that he would be serving fried chicken that week in the school cafeteria. (I assumed the following week, the brotha would be cutting up watermelon for dessert.)" OUCH!!! This proposal is great though, "Alleyne says information on Benjamin Banneker's clock invention, Charles Drew's expertise on blood plasma, Dr. Benjamin Carson's surgical skills in separating Siamese twins and Martin Luther King's oratory - could easily be melded into the teaching of math, science and English." and these aren't just lists of firsts either, another complaint of BHM being a month of extolling blacks who were the first to do something civilized whites were doing already. i agree with the columnist that this should have been incorporated into my american history, but since it wasn't i'm glad i ahd a month to make it a priority.