Thank you for that. We need to stop segregating ourselves in order for others to stop as well.
--Jasmine

Of course we know why this separation came about to begin with. Achievements made by African slaves and their descendants were traditionally left out of the official records and history books in order to perpetuate the fallacy that as a people they did not acheive anything. So our Ancestors did the next best thing and started recording this history on their own and teaching to their own. Sure - today its more in the general consciousness due to great pressure from brave and resilient people - but those with the "powers that be" are reluctant still to embrace our History as American History because that basic hatred and rascism still runs deep. Who runs this society, make and pass policies which effect all aspects of life from education to economics to foreign policy? -- White Males. Most of them prefer to maintain as much of the status quo as possible - meaning that they have their own agenda which has nothing to do with the good of the country as a whole. Accepting "Black History" fully into the mainstream as American History and fully teaching it to all Americans would reveal to the world the extent of not only our acheivements as a people - but also just how massive,corrupt and evil the whole business of slavery really was. It would show how much of this countrys' greatness was acheived on the backs and through the spilled blood of millions of Black people. White society is quick to condemn the Germans for what they did to the Jews. Its okay to acknowledge what was done to Native Indians. Apologies, money etc... are given to Indians, Jews and even Alaskans as a way to make up for some of the atrocities commited. But when slavery, segregation and ongoing rascism are bought up - Blacks are told - that was in the past - we should just forget about it. How many know that Native Indian tribes owned slaves and even after the "Emancipation" refused to free their slaves? They wouldn't make them a part of their own nations and America didn't make them citizens. NO - the history should not be separated. But as long as there is fear, ignorance - hatred - there will be separation. However - "Knowledge is Power" and the fact that people are aware of this disparity in our teachings and keep our true and full History and that of all people who impacted on this country, I have faith that one day all will merge under the umbrella of America's History. "No Nation divided against itself can stand"

Right on brother!!!
--Psharif