First of all, I don’t believe in black history month. I believe in black history, every month.

Though I am a student of my past, my people and our struggles – I respect and love who I am and where I came from. My people are rich in culture, intelligence and resilience. So many of our contributions to this country will never be known because some were stolen from us and the credit went to some other group. That’s sad to me. It pisses me off. I’m not here to ruffle feathers but to educate and enlighten.

Read. Understand. Learn.

Let’s pass this knowledge on to our young people so that they go into the future understanding who they are and how they came to be where they are now. Though they have the civil and human rights all of us are automatically endowed, these rights can be taken away by a corrupt system – a system designed to protect them.

We know who Martin Luther King is. We know who Malcolm X is. We know who Rosa Parks is.

Let’s learn about Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael.