By Jaheim Jones With ninety-six years and counting, the United States of America has given African Americans the honor to have a black history week since 1926. Like we always do, we rose above and elevated our respect and recognition. Since 1976 we officially have been celebrating black history month, which means it’s only been forty-four years. When I speak of black history please know I’m not trying to shed light about slavery in America. Black history means so much more because obviously there was a history before Africans were held captive by Europeans for malevolent purposes. Often uneducated people mistake the continent of Africa for a country when that is completely wrong. Africa is a continent and within the huge continent there are fifty-four countries. Africa held large amounts of gold and diamonds that the Europeans wanted so they took advantage of Africa's diamonds and gold and put its people into hard unreasonable labor. This took time however because Africa was too big and complex to just take over multiple countries and that hard labor would be the first step towards slavery, the one we recognize in late America. I had to watch a lot of documentaries on Africa before colonization because according to google Africans “have no history.” PLEASE don’t ever believe that black people have no history because of lack of books. According to Wikipedia, “The earliest humans developed out of australopithecine ancestors after about 3 million years ago.” Everybody knows about ancient Egypt because of its involvement with ancient Rome but what about the city of Kilwa. According to Wikipedia, “At one time, it was probably the most powerful in the whole East Africa.” South of Tanzania it was a very diverse community that was a port for trade for multiple cities. Moving from shore to land we can also show the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe in the town of Masvingo appreciation. Here was a bunch of hard working Africans who crafted weapons made from iron. Overall more than that the city of Great Zimbabwe was a main attraction city which according to britannica.com “The largest of more than 150 major stone ruins scattered across the country of Zimbabwe.” Shorted in black excellence for generations we only focus on the surface of stereotypes. Black is not wild and ignorant; black is beautiful, resilient, intelligent and consistent. Black people have so much rich tragic and inspiring history. Even though we celebrate it in one month our history shall live on forever in a culture, books, and youth.
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3/24/2020 12:56:10 pm
Thank you for writing this article and sharing information that a lot of people are unaware of. I would suggest you be careful of relying too much on Wikipedia because anyone can write anything they want on that website. But good job doing research and coming up with worthwhile information to share.
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