New Movement !

For centuries African Americans have been considered inferior. Even with our strive for success and for power, we still have not lived up to the White Power Structure of America. Today we are being taught White history. We are taught white achievements, and accomplishments, and how they have changed and shaped America to the country it is today. We aren’t taught the detrimental parts of their history. We aren’t taught that White Christians were once slaves; we aren’t taught that they too were once inferior. This part of our history has been submerged from school books and classrooms. We have this fixated version of our history that puts African Americans at the bottom and European or Caucasians at the top.

African American history is not implemented in the school curriculum. We are taught the prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, yet we still have little knowledge of these leaders and others. We are taught slavery, and civil rights, but they shadow over all of the contributions that have been made to society by African Americans.

America’s youth is growing up ignorant. With this little knowledge of African American history we are allowing young black kids to grow up thinking they can’t be anything in life aside from a basketball player or rapper. We are giving them little self-esteem to how much potential they truly have. If only we were taught about the people in our history just like us; growing up in poverty, with little education, who still contributed to this nation. If only we were taught about the African Americans who fought for what we have today.
 Time is running out. Black dropout rates are increasing, and graduation rates are decreasing. 
What are YOU going to do about it?

Sign my petition.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/equal-education-demand?source=c.em.cp&r_by=14873042