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It’s been 50 years since Martin marched to Montgomery and Malcolm was massacred in Harlem: we don’t need another Black History Month. We need a Dismantling White Supremacy Month.
I love black history and culture, and kids do need to learn that the brothers are not just locked up in jail, but have always been up in the sciences – from Neil deGrasse Tyson to astronaut Ronald McNair all the way back to George Washington Carver. In the Reagan years of my childhood, it was always fun to learn about Shirley Chisholm being the first black woman elected to congress (and first woman ever to run for the Democratic nomination for President), to discover Cleopatra probably didn’t look much like Elizabeth Taylor, and to argue with my classmates that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings most definitely had children together.
(more) http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...hite-supremacy
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It’s been 50 years since Martin marched to Montgomery and Malcolm was massacred in Harlem: we don’t need another Black History Month. We need a Dismantling White Supremacy Month.
I love black history and culture, and kids do need to learn that the brothers are not just locked up in jail, but have always been up in the sciences – from Neil deGrasse Tyson to astronaut Ronald McNair all the way back to George Washington Carver. In the Reagan years of my childhood, it was always fun to learn about Shirley Chisholm being the first black woman elected to congress (and first woman ever to run for the Democratic nomination for President), to discover Cleopatra probably didn’t look much like Elizabeth Taylor, and to argue with my classmates that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings most definitely had children together.
(more) http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...hite-supremacy