Black History Month is beneficial for many reasons in the opinion of the Echo’s community reporter Patrick Graham
Black History Month 2023 begins today . Here Echo community reporter Patrick Graham discusses why it's important.
The only knowledge I had of Black History was the enslavement of Black people and how their brutally forced free labour was used. This I did not even learn in school, but from Roots, a TV drama in the 1970s, which left me confused thinking that was all there is to know about my history and heritage. The reason for doing so, was to justify the slave trade and their colonial and imperial pursuits by saying they’re bringing enlightenment and civilisation to savages who know no better. Looking at people, especially Blacks as subhuman, even akin to animals in nature.
Racist stereotypes that Blacks are inferior and the falsehood and delusion that Whites are superior can only be dispelled through education and abandon the teaching we have seen for centuries. When you educate someone, this allows them to have critical thinking, to analyse and question, to deduce and make rational factual based decisions and conclusions.
The UN in September 2022 adopted, by unanimous decision, a historic Declaration for Culture and said it's a "global public good", and called for it to be integrated "as a specific goal in its own right” in their development agenda beyond 2030. Can any right minded person believe that this is "toxic" when we have seen how politicians have made negative statements how this feeds Far Right and other racist groups' way of thinking and acting? With racist attacks on the increase, comments of this nature are extremely dangerous.
Our schools need to teach the long history of Black History not just about the slave trade, which is common amongst schools during October. There's a saying: "If Black History were a book of 1,000 pages, the part about the slave trade would start on page 999.
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