Thursday, February 12, 2009

Remembering Those Who Built This Nation

You know why the photograph gets posted, right?

"Debate builds on Black History Month; Diverse curricula, Obama's win spur calls for change" by Jesse Washington, Associated Press | February 8, 2009

Kindergartners at a Mamaronek, N.Y., school listened last week as their teacher, Connie Levin, instructed them. The children learn about figures from different cultures throughout the year.

Kindergartners at a Mamaronek, N.Y., school listened last week as their teacher, Connie Levin, instructed them. The children learn about figures from different cultures throughout the year. (Julie Jacobson/ Associated Press)

Look at all those little angels!!

.... It has now become a fixture in American education and culture - complete with the requisite commercialism - even as the shift in labels from Negro to black to African-American indicates the evolution of attitudes meant to be shaped by the event....

Lee Eric Smith, the first black editor of the University of Mississippi student newspaper, isn't ready to get rid of Black History Month, "because, to start quoting cliches, those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it."

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