all attempts at discovering, refurbishing, clarifying and qualifying our history are simply cogent efforts to establish and relocate ourselves in the continuum of human history and to place them alongside of the narratives of other peoples of the world. The celebration of black history then becomes a concerted effort to help people of African descent and others to rediscover and relocate themselves and their true contributions to world civilization and development. There is something empowering about knowing and rediscovering that history and re-establishing one's rightful place in it. Contrary to some longheld assumptions, these efforts do not preclude African-Americans from seeing and valuing the contributions of other peoples of the world.
Thus the full story of our history is still being revealed. The narrative forms of that history are also morphing into new narratives that both disclose who we are and what we will yet become, and shed even more light on our journey; its joys and sorrows, its successes and failures, its victories and defeats and the
numerous ways in which the chaos of human existence has been ordered and harmonized into triumphant cultural patterns and vibrant life forms that still live with us today.
Important in understanding the history of any people is to truly know not only what they have done for survival, sensibility and achievement but how they have achieved that existence. How we have accomplished those great things is nearly as important as what we have accomplished, and such lessons
are important not just for African-Americans but for all people and students of history interested in discovering the ways and means in which various tribes and aggregates of humans have managed to come through the many dangers, toils and snares of their earthly odyssey and sojourns.
By undertaking as serious evaluation of black history and its strengths, by finding ways of discovering what we achieved and how we achieved it under various conditions of oppression, we can learn something more about how we have overcome which can be invaluable lessons not only to present and future generations but to all people everywhere. By focusing our strengths and overcoming our weaknesses, we have fashioned a legacy of hope and survival that should be an inspiration for all human kind and that is another of many reasons why black history is so important. see my video !!
David Johnson
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Tuesday, December 31st 2013 at 2:02AM
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