February is Black History Month. Fellow white people, do you have any idea how much better-educated than you nearly every Black person you know is about American history? There are events and people you have not been taught about at all, or about which and whom you have been taught a "white-washed" version, reshaped to fit into the great American myth of white history.
As a white kid, I was taught poorly, too. We used to call the process of learning the real history "waking up," with the end result of becoming more woke, maybe even fully woke. Now that term is being widely used pejoratively, so I'll say instead: open your eyes!
Open your eyes, and see what has always been there. Become someone who sees.
I've got a few links tucked away for February, and I'll find more as the month goes on, but let's start by turning to the people who've been taught Black history from the time they were young.
10 accounts to follow:
@mekkaokereke Mekka Okereke
@black_intellect blk_intellect
@liberate The Way of Accountability
@DHS Darker Hue Studios
@onlymeindc Sherri G., PhD
@nadinestorying she who weaves stories
@popcornreel Omar Moore
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo
@Jaden2@mstdn.social Jaden
@kingsley kingsley
@pwinn @mekkaokereke @black_intellect @liberate @DHS @onlymeindc @nadinestorying @popcornreel @carnage4life @Jaden2 @kingsley this list of shout-outs is phenomenal
AHAHAHAHAHA!
You Jews really are still going with that one, huh?
