The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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Black history is American history.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
I do consider myself part of black history.
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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