Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Black history is American history.
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.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
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.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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