Black History is American History, most definitely! Ok so why is it 2022 and our kids are not taught about Black History in the public or private schools? Besides, slavery! There is no excuse not to incorporate Black History into the curriculums of the American school systems. They learn about everything else. Well, I blame the parents and elders in each family 100%. It's your job to teach and train your family in the lessons and history of black folks. It is also in your best interest to demand Black History is part of the curriculum at your child's school. Get your lovely selves involved in the policy at your local school board. There is so much to learn about and to be proud of in American Black History.
Just when you thought black excellence would not stop rocking, (cuz it won't) the National Archives for Black Women's History is showing off the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in the Library of Congress. Black women served in the United States Army, slayed in black girl magic and they saved the day again, in productivity as they have always done for America. Ok, why aren't these black women veteran's history incorporated into the American school curriculum? Their image is conducive to all kids having the knowledge of knowing about them and the many contributions they successfully made in the United States Army. Image is everything, especially in America when the negative stigmas of black women still interrupt the true essence of who they are. Show some respect to these true soldiers.
Do you mean these beautiful, savvy, melanated women made history because a white woman by the name of Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a black woman by the name of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune passionately supported and promoted black women to meet a need that needed to be met? Yes, that's right! In the 1940's these black women were formed as the "Six Triple Eight" (6888) to help those men in the United States Armed Forces receive their mail in a timely manner under the leadership of Charity Adams Earley. Initially, the African American Women's Army Corp. was their name. When the United States Military needed more women in Birmingham, England over 800 melanated women known as the Six Triple Eight released all their magic to help in saving the day, despite living up close and personal in segregation. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion produced thousands of mails per shift. Mail that was backed up for months was squared away in three months when these queens stepped on the scene! These women were trained for overseas, and they had assignments everywhere. Those Black Girls been rocking! You should know about them! You and your family should read about them and share their story with other people.
Do you mean these beautiful, savvy, melanated women made history because a white woman by the name of Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a black woman by the name of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune passionately supported and promoted black women to meet a need that needed to be met? Yes, that's right! In the 1940's these black women were formed as the "Six Triple Eight" (6888) to help those men in the United States Armed Forces receive their mail in a timely manner under the leadership of Charity Adams Earley. Initially, the African American Women's Army Corp. was their name. When the United States Military needed more women in Birmingham, England over 800 melanated women known as the Six Triple Eight released all their magic to help in saving the day, despite living up close and personal in segregation. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion produced thousands of mails per shift. Mail that was backed up for months was squared away in three months when these queens stepped on the scene! These women were trained for overseas, and they had assignments everywhere. Those Black Girls been rocking! You should know about them! You and your family should read about them and share their story with other people.
I never knew this! This is why our melanin is pure magic! We have been in the back of the battle and in the front, kicking people to the curve! Please share this with your little girls and boys. I started to explore this awareness after I saw the movie, Black Panther. I heard women were the real warriors in some African countries as portrayed in the movie. Our kids need to be exposed to this. It shows us how courageous and intelligent our ancestors were. Just like we are today!
Put some respect on their names. Please remember them! These are inventions that were invented by black people:
- ALMANACS-Benjamin Banneker
- BABY BUGGY-W. H Richardson
- BLOOD PLASMA BAG-Dr. Charles Drew
- CELLULAR CAR PHONE-Henry Sampson
- CORN HARVESTER -Henry Blair
- ELEVATOR -Alexander Miles
- ELECTRIC LAMP-Lewis Latimer
- EMERGENCY FIRE ESCAPE MECHANISM -
- FIRE EXTINGUISHER- Thomas J. Martin
- GAS, MASK-Garrett Morgan
- GUITAR -Robert Flemming
- ICE CREAM- A.L. Cralle
- IMAGING X-RAY-George Alcorn
- LAWN MOWER -John A Burr
- MAILBOX -Philip B Dowing
- MOP-Thomas Steward
- PEANUT BUTTER-George W Carver
- POTATO CHIP -George Crum
- STRAIGHTENING COMB-Walter Sammons
- TRAFFIC LIGHT-Garrett Morgan
Yes, they never enjoy telling all the factors around oppression and enslavement. A lot of melanated men and women fought back. They planned and strategized how to escape from the colonizers wicked deeds. Mr. Robert Smalls is worthy of your time and study. He was a warrior hero.
Look up these massacres. Look up every single one! I double dare you. They don't want to talk about how white folks attacked, lynched and murdered black people and their children for no other reason but because of skin color and pure hatred. White supremacy allowed this. Where is the justice? Is this why they want to keep Critical Race Theory cryptic from their kids? The truth will set you free!
Malcolm X is a man I truly adore. He was concerned about my well-being way before I was born. I'm very thankful for his sacrifice and all of our ancestors that were on the battlefield of equality, freedom and justice. We are still fighting! The media is doing just what Malcolm said. They make the criminal look like the victim and the victim is the criminal. For example, Travon Martin. When race is in the midst, the black man or young boy is a thug, he had a prior record, and he smoked the same substance (weed) that most Europeans are getting filthy rich from because now, its legal. If it is a white man or boy, he was an A student or he struggles with mental illness. Their image is not tainted but black folks are. The media are quite aware of what they are doing and have been doing. If you have melanated kids, especially black boys, please start sharing these truths with them. They need to know their history to avoid a lot of traps.
This is why melanated people remain "Black And Proud." Their struggles, their pain, their resistance and their domination of everything cultural, keeps them on fire with the elasticity to show up again and bounce back to win. I once had an encounter with a young Caucasian woman. It was very positive. She asked me why I had worn the t-shirt I had put on one particular day at work. My shirt said, "When God Made The Black Woman He Was Just Showing Off." She thought I didn't like white people. She actually was thinking that when black people would wear shirts affirming the affection of their sisterhood, brotherhood or just basking in the glory to love on themselves, it had something to do with being against all the Europeans. She asked, "Do they hate white people?" Quite the contrary. I was very thankful we got the chance to sit down and talk to each other about how she perceived the subject. I expressed to her, it had absolutely nothing to do with European folks, at all! I thought to myself, if she was thinking our self-love was a message of negatively for white people, other Caucasians probably had those same sentiments. So, this was some dialogue that needed to happen. I had to remind her about our histories. As a European woman I told her how the world would always be in favor of protecting, respecting and placing women like her, as the pinnacle of beauty and worthiness to exists. Then I flipped the script. I told her how melanated women were told they were not human, not valued and so not beautiful. I talked to her about the self-hate my community currently deals with because of the residue of oppression and suppression which has led to a lot of depression in the black community. In order to lift ourselves up and take just a little bit of pride in being who we are, and loving our blackness, we have to affirm ourselves with empowering words and phrases. Sometimes our unity and love are created in what we wear, like on our shirts. It really isn't in our nature to be hateful. When we do fight back it has everything to do with us wanting to be free. Not hating white people. We accept and love everyone until you continue keeping your foot on our necks.
