What I Do Know IS …

Elementary school shaped most of what I know.  During those early years, I learned a very little history. I learned about the slave, Harriet Tubman, and escaped slave Fredrick Douglas. That they did great things is undeniable. That they are our ancestors is undeniable. They are a snippet of black history. Learning this snippet taught me that black greatness was somehow tried to being a slave.

I don’t remember hearing anything good regarding this man marching for equality until April 4, 1968. This was the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated and a nation cried.

There is so much more to Blacks, Negroes, and African Americans. More than bondage, more than slavery, and more than martyrdom.

We have a history rich with great people, heroes, and astonishing feats of magic.

If we were taught about our lineages of kings and queens, our free ancestors, and the kingdoms they ruled, this knowledge may have changed the course of world history.