Thursday, February 18, 2010

Pfleger: Black youth should know their history

BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA

"Not only is Black History Month relevant, I think it's more important than ever that two things happen. One, that there be a coming together across the country to say, 'How do we change these horrible statistics of what's going on in the African-American community? How do we force a focus on it?' And two, even more than that, to talk to African-American children who have either no knowledge of, or no respect for African-American history, and know Dr. King only as being a dreamer, and know Malcolm X only as 'by any means necessary.'

"The reality is that black history is not being passed down from generation to generation, and it saddens me." Read more...




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