Black history in class

Black history has its own month nationwide, but it doesn’t do justice in schools. As a black student I appreciate that we have a month dedicated to my history. In schools we do not learn about black history besides the occasional discussion during Black History Month about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Central High. And I feel that students need to learn more about other black heroes instead of just MLK.

In today’s society, black students are not living up to their full potential and feel that they should live up to what they are told they have to be. Schools need to teach more about how much of an impact black people had on the world. We need to understand what we can do and learn about the people we can look up to. Learning that, even through the worst, blacks were able to make inventions and cause huge movements can cause inspiration to black male and females. Black people started from the bottom and then we were able to have a first black president.

No one learns that Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected into Congress, or that Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space. If taught in schools or even touched upon, kids will begin to understand how big of a deal it was for these breakthroughs. It will inspire many teenagers to go to school and invent something new.

DYLON RUBY

Bryant