Let’s get something straight: the erasure of Black history isn’t an accident — it’s a strategy. A well-funded, well-scripted, bipartisan game of “Let’s Pretend Slavery Wasn’t That Bad.” And if we don’t fight to tell our stories, they’ll keep feeding our kids Disneyfied lies and calling it a lesson plan.
Breakdown of Issue:
Across the country, school boards are banning books faster than rappers get dissed on Twitter. States like Florida and Texas are sanitizing curriculums under the guise of “protecting students.” But protect them from what? The truth? The discomfort of knowing this country was built on stolen land and Black labor?
When you erase history, you erase accountability. And without accountability, you get a generation that thinks MLK ended racism with a dream and that slavery was just a “difficult chapter” America quickly overcame. This isn’t just ignorance. It’s indoctrination.
Cultural/Historical Context:
This isn’t new. Since Reconstruction, there’s been a targeted effort to minimize Black contributions, resistance, and suffering in official historical narratives. Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 precisely because Black excellence and struggle were nowhere to be found in textbooks. Fast forward nearly a century, and some states are still doing verbal gymnastics to avoid saying “racism.”
When you control the narrative, you control identity. You decide who gets to be heroes and who gets buried in footnotes. The story of America without Black people is not just incomplete — it’s fiction.
Personal Insight / Community Impact:
I remember being in 8th grade and learning about Harriet Tubman, MLK, and maybe if we had time—Rosa Parks. That was our “Black History.” Meanwhile, we spent months on the American Revolution. No mention of the fact that Crispus Attucks was the first to die for this country. No mention of Black inventors, warriors, scholars, artists, or entrepreneurs unless it was February — and even then, it was a remix of the same three names.
Now I see Black students walking into classrooms where teachers are afraid to even say “slavery” out loud. Where parents are protesting inclusive curriculums like it’s a public health crisis. And I can’t help but wonder: if our kids don’t learn our story in school, how will they understand their power?
Call to Reflect / Act / Subscribe:
We need to reclaim our narratives. That means building Black-led media (like this one), demanding inclusive education, supporting Black educators, and telling our stories loud, proud, and uncensored.
Because if we let them write our history, they’ll keep writing us out.
And nah—we’re not going for that.
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