Nowhere
is the white standard-setting more outrageous than when it comes to history. When the topic is about anybody other than
white folks, it has to be labeled: Black, Latino, Native American, etc.; but
white folks have been allowed to own “history”.
As this planet’s original people, there is no history without us. Further, even when we moved outside of
Africa, from ancient Greece and Rome to the Russian Empire to the start of the
American Revolution to today, black folks have touched all of humanity’s most
significant events. Neither the world
nor America would be what they are today without the contributions of people of
African Ancestry; let us be clear once and for all that black history is
“history”.
(from Defining
Moments in (Black) History by Dick Gregory)
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