Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
#AskSwell. do we still need Black History month? Shouldnt it be a part of the curriculum?
But furthermore, he said he feels like Black History Month should be done away with because it should be taught every year. He said you should start teaching it January 1, and you should stop teaching it December 31, and then you should start again on January 1, teaching it again. And I agree with him
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
Maybe the teachers may talk about somebody once a week, if that you know what I mean. In elementary school, they have them dress up as people in black history, and they dress up, and most of the times when they do that, then people
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 1:14
Why does it have to be the shortest month of the year? You know what I mean? So just my thoughts. What say you? Swell. Do we still need Black History Month? And if we do, do we still need Black History Month? It
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:23
And I think it's because, like I said, now black history is emphasized all year long in some way. A lot of people don't even mention it. But June is Black Music Month, I believe. And so, yeah, I believe, because now we have access to all of this information regarding black history, and because people are now studying African American Studies in school. And like I said, you have more access to things. You got, like, the Smithsonian African American Museum
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 2:40
And so they're chronicling even though they put a little fictional flair on it, they're still telling the stories they do have it in. There are classrooms that teachers that incorporate it, but then there's also, like I said, the college courses and things of that nature nowadays. And this is a good thing. This is not a bad thing. This is a good thing
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 3:53
But in order to change all this information in the storybooks that's going to be millions of dollars millions and millions and millions of dollars to rewrite the history books they should have been wrote the right way in the first place. But to rewrite them and to revamp society's thoughts about African Americans it's going to take some time. About black people in general. It's going to take a lot of time. And we should already be there
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 5:00
And I looked and I was like, that's not true. And in that moment, everything that I had learned came back to me and it was like, this is your purpose. This is why you needed to know your history. So I actually started teaching them their own history, and it turned into a much bigger thing where I kind of took it just like more like quizzes and stuff for the adults around me because it was so much that they didn't know
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 5:00
But in my opinion, if we're going to go about changing things, I think that the children should know their history, because when you know your history, there's a better chance that it won't repeat itself. And if anyone notices, they're slowly taking away the little things that kept us human, and they're slowly adding in all this controversy and things that shouldn't be at such young, delicate ages. I don't know. It's very mind boggling to me
