your thoughts, please....??

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Greensboro, NC

P o e t i q R e i g n Greensboro, NC

I had a conversation with one of my homegirls some weeks ago... she brought up how the history club i'm apart of shouldn't focus on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom and liberation of Black people from society and this country.... that a "HISTORY" club should reflect just that....HISTORY...EVERYbody's history - not just Black people's history (she's Black, herself...attends a PWI).... I explained to her that just like with many courses at an HBCU, we receive a lot of knowledge and a certain type of intellectual exchange we wouldn't receive at a PWI....nor have we received at any other White school prior to coming to college.... that at many of those schools, they mask "history" classes with much of their history...and half-truths or distorted story-telling of everyone else's..... so why NOT our "history" club tell what all you wouldn't get in being apart of "White America"? okay...well....she was saying that the formal education and history we learn in America will naturally be reflected by whoever is the majority of that time. I challenged this theory, asking if she feels that once Hispanics are STATISTICALLY the majority, will they in fact be the ones running and controlling things to the degree that Whites have always ran and control things in this country and even the majority of this world?? She laughed and said "no"...but that really does raise an interesting question. Would they? And it's not about what THEY want to do or are capable of doing...the question is about what they would at that point be ALLOWED to do...by certain people of this world. So what do you all think?

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Hahaha · Apr 2005

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just change yalls name to the BLACK history club...probalem solved...

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Nope...it won't happen..."they" are not gonna let it happen...hell, I'm sure they're already mad about the Williams sisters and Tiger Woods taking over their sports...they're not gonna let it get TOO far...especially when it comes to government... and regardless of who's the majority...our history will always be taught covered in a white blanket...it shouldn't be but it is...

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P o e t i q R e i g n from Greensboro, NC · Apr 2005

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demmeri wrote:
just change yalls name to the BLACK history club...probalem solved...

Well in that case...why aren't the "U.S. History" and "World History" courses taught at predominantly White elementary, middle, and high schools and colleges and univeristies just called "White/European-American/Caucasian-American History"? Because that's all they are....practically... And even moreso than that...one thing I forgot to mention in my initial post is that ummmmmmmm people TOO OFTEN forget that BLACK HISTORY is EVERYONE'S HISTORY.... if it weren't for Black people....this country would be in the gutter...come on, now - let's be real.... so naming our organization simply the "HISTORY" Club is quite accurate...because we ARE a SIGNIFICANT amount of not only U.S. history, but WORLD history, PERIOD.... yet we are so often left out....we shouldn't have to call our history "Black history"....we are more than that.... just like last night, I attended an event at one of the local colleges...where Cornel West, a famous author, motivational speaker, philosopher, and Princeton University religion professor, spoke... and he was introduced by this White guy...who made the statement "Cornel West is not only THE leading African-American philosopher of our day...but he is THE leading philosopher in our day." Everybody...MANY Whites....MANY Blacks....were like AMEN, AMEN... whether they say it or not, THEY (White people) know that we are more than just our color....that in certain areas, we have been the BEST, PERIOD...NOT JUST AS REPRESENTATIONS OF OUR RACE.... WHEN WILL WE!??!

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Hahaha · Apr 2005

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P o e t i q R e i g n wrote:
demmeri wrote:
just change yalls name to the BLACK history club...probalem solved...
Well in that case...why aren't the "U.S. History" and "World History" courses taught at predominantly White elementary, middle, and high schools and colleges and univeristies just called "White/European-American/Caucasian-American History"? Because that's all they are....practically... And even moreso than that...one thing I forgot to mention in my initial post is that ummmmmmmm people TOO OFTEN forget that BLACK HISTORY is EVERYONE'S HISTORY.... if it weren't for Black people....this country would be in the gutter...come on, now - let's be real.... so naming our organization simply the "HISTORY" Club is quite accurate...because we ARE a SIGNIFICANT amount of not only U.S. history, but WORLD history, PERIOD.... yet we are so often left out....we shouldn't have to call our history "Black history"....we are more than that.... just like last night, I attended an event at one of the local colleges...where Cornel West, a famous author, motivational speaker, philosopher, and Princeton University religion professor, spoke... and he was introduced by this White guy...who made the statement "Cornel West is not only THE leading African-American philosopher of our day...but he is THE leading philosopher in our day." Everybody...MANY Whites....MANY Blacks....were like AMEN, AMEN... whether they say it or not, THEY (White people) know that we are more than just our color....that in certain areas, we have been the BEST, PERIOD...NOT JUST AS REPRESENTATIONS OF OUR RACE.... WHEN WILL WE!??!

they talk about black history too...in my AP us history class we spent like 2 wweeks just covering black peiople...and it wasn't weven no black history month...it was a school that is like 88% white (private)...yeah we covered the 60s, slavery...the whoel shabbang...and this white teacher taught us that the dark skinned nubians aren't given enough credit for what they taught the egyptians...and he taught us all about these ancient african empires and that the africans possibly had contact with the myans of north america... yeah man...dig it 8-) (nessa)