What is the Purpose of Black History Month?!
America has been taught Black History starting with slavery. Black History is not about slavery it is there to remind those who do not know their Black History; it is a month that has been dedicated to African Americans as they would call melanin based people. It is for them to have something significant in their lives within The United States; a time for people to remember those who have paved the way for them. In the History that is talked about within the structure of schools, it starts with slavery. That is still a form of oppression. Cultivating the narrative that people's culture starts with slavery when that is not accurate it creates a line of oppression of the truth and reality; it becomes what someone else wants it to be. In the History of America the first President was John Hanson a black man and not George Washington as it has been taught through out American History.( This was confirmed by USA Today) There are people who