This site is dedicated to encouraging the creation of school curriculums which include the achievements of African Americans and supporting continued involvement of African American parents in their children's educations.

Why should African American history be taught?
    1.  To present a realistic view of history by including the achievements of people of color
    2.  To emphasis the impact and contributions people of color have made upon world events
    3.  To raise the self esteem of black students
    4.  To lessen views of superiority felt by white students

Why must schools be the battleground?

There's a war of minds going on, and what you are taught about yourself and others can lead to mindpoisoning, a deadly disease!  There is a weapon against mindpoisoning, however.  That weapon is common sense intelligence.  No PH.D in the world can win a battle against common sense.  If someone tells you it's daylight outside and it's 9:00 pm, you'd be an idiot to believe them!  Don't believe every lie you're told.  Don't think rumors can't give way to truth and facts.  Always question what others say, especially when it comes to the future of your child.  Remember, realism is quantified by the believer just like beauty receives clarification in the eye of the beholder.

This may be an old cliche, but knowledge is power!  If you don't know where you've come from, how can you wisely choose the direction you will go in the future?  If you don't know you are heirs of advanced civilizations and the descendants of great thinkers, architects and inventors and are only taught a slave history by white educators controlled by white administrators and all white school boards, your ability to achieve educational and professional excellence will be diminished.

What personal experience has taught me:  In Cobb County, GA (Newt Gingrich's district) and other school districts across the USA, the inclusion of African American achievements in textbooks and educational literature is insufficient.  Both outwardly and subliminally, teaching black studies and the hiring of black educators displays tokenism.

It starts in elementary school where simple homework sheets only feature white cartoon characters, non African looking Egyptians and all white cowboy heroes on the range. It continues through middle school when the school principal introduces a sixth grade, all white teaching team as "the best group of educators ever assembled."  It further humiliates at a high school open house when an honors World History teacher is asked, "Why isn't Africa included on the syllabus?" and she responds, "Well, Africa isn't covered very much in the textbook!"  It surfaces in school board meetings where questions concerning low number of black teachers in the workforce result in the only black board member losing her seat! These are real problems in our educational system which need to be changed by mass confrontation and analysis before another generation of students receives a "whitewashed" education.
 

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