When Carter G Woodson in 1926 implemented Negro Week it served as a means to teach and remind us that that the efforts and lives of many African Americans were far beyond just the all too frequent teachings to blacks only being slaves in history. Negro week was implemented to remind us that we come from great ancestral lineages and not simply a history of bondage. If these were Woodsons intention why is that the is that the African American diaspora in its current state? We are lagging behind in areas such as education with lowest illiteracy rate among other races yet surpassing other races with offensively high numbers of us behind prison bars or emaciated by the virus and the many other health disparities we suffer from. Does black history serve us any use today and how so? If black history served us any use as Woodson initially intended why is that with time the Afican American diaspora only seems to abysmally decline in its conditions?
With civil rights movement only occurring 50 years ago, when did we drop the ball and lost site of King's Dream...or have we attained his dream? Somewhere along the lines the torch failed to be passed onto to the generation after that of the civil rights era only leading to puppet civil rights leaders such as Al Sharpton and the likes. When and how do we in the African American diaspora begin better ourselves as a people?
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