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The City Lights Reporter Online News Journal February 2002 -Volume 5 Issue 2 Online Conversation AboutLiving Black History
Compiled By; James I. Neusom, II
How sad it is that every year during Black History Month we hear the same old names. Year after year, the educational, social and now corporate establishment promote the same five figures in black history; Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Benjamin Banneker. But what about prominent brothers and sisters that are still walking among us.
Why must we wait till they are in the grave to honor and commemorate the contributions of African-Americans who have helped to make this society the greatest on earth. I know, I know, blacks in America have no culture of their own ...... That's A Lie. We are the originators and innovators of the best of American culture. Chose a field, medicine, entertainment, technology, fashion, or any other field and you will find a black name at the top of the list of inventors or contributors. So I ask you again, why we do not hear their names during this time of year.
How many of our music crazed youth know that Harry Bellefonte was the first recording artist to ever sell a million records (that's right Ever). Can anyone name the black engineer at NASA that wrote the original software that later evolved into the 3D graphics that make video games so life like? Colin Powell may not have been the first black general but he has left an undeniable mark on our military and government that can not be ignored. We complain about a lack of black leadership but how many know that the head of AOL/Time Warner is a black man. Oh, lets not start talking about leaders like Min. Louis Farrakhan or Rev. Fred KC Price ongoing effects on the practice of religion in America.
So I ask you ...... How many living African-Americans Legends can you name. How many prominent black women can you point out to your daughter as an example of black history in the making? How many day to day products do your children use without thinking that a black hand had a major part in its creation.
I Challenge This Group To Name More Then Five .......
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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 04:11:31 -0000 From: "mitchy_69" Subject: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
I agree with you 100%. We have to teach more about prominent brothers and sisters today.
Like Dr. Ben Carson, best pediatric neurosurgeon in the world. He is the first African American director of neurosurgery at a major medical center, John Hopkins and I believe is was the younger when he was appointed. Dinah Carroll, the first African American to have her on sitcom and the first African American to own her own fashion company. August Wilson, a playwright and poet is one of only 7 writers to have won 2 Pulitzer prizes. Toni Morrison, first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Franklin Raines, first African American CEO of a major corporation, Fannie Mae.
There are so many more. We just have to read and research our history.
-----Original Message----- From: Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
This is a topic I have raised on other list. It's time to create balance and celebrate and recognize the scientists, inventors, doctors, educators, etc. amongst us now who make huge contributions to our communities.
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From: Ruth Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:10 PM To: jneusom@dellepro.com Subject: Black History Month Profiles
Black History Month Profiles ( I do not know where you live, but click on the link, and you will find that some of the links here are of people who are very much alive. Click on Joe Kennedy, Willie Lanier, Oliver Hill. I hope you will be please to know that they are very much alive.
Ruth, a senior who reads the Black List
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:45:41 +1300 From: Peter Fogarty Subject: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
As I'm from New Zealand, I wouldn't know. But I agree, that it is shocking that the white American establishment has white-washed the historical record, and give you all only ONE month for Black History.
Why is it not a compulsory year-long paper, equivalent to His[white s]tory.
The answer is that the material out there isn't pushed enough, or made available to the greatest number, and to the insular racial ignorance, and ignorance's brother, racism in the general white American who's holding the reins of power.
Best,
Peter
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:09:55 -0800 (PST) From: Amanda Banks Subject: Re: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
Dude don't forget the brotha that invented the telephone
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Message: 6 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 From: Martins Horn Subject: Re: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
There are resources for this information -- J.A. Rogers who wrote World's Great Men of Color (http://hallbiography.com/ethnic_national/127.shtml) is a great book who presents wonderful stories.
www.africana.com and http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html are great resources for history.
Alderidge--first performed Othello Madame JC Walker--- first self made -Millionaire Esteban--first black man/spanish man to lead expedition into the west Carver--first invented Peanut Butter- many other uses B.Banneker(sp) mapped out and designed Washington DC August Savage (first) had her sculpture was featured in the Worlds Fair http://www.northbysouth.org/1998/art/pages/savage.htm and started the first african-american art studio in Harlem in the 20's before art was popular to buy.
There are plenty of resources but of course you are not going see it on mainstream sources.
The other angle on this point is some people barely know who Abraham Lincoln was never mind any type of black history.
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 17:47:01 -0800 From: EliteBeauty@wor Subject: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
We don't have to wait for others to share about other interesting African Americans that are truly legends.
Magic Johnson - Entrepreneur Quincy Jones - Entertainer Romona Lawson - Entrepreneur "Romona Vocational School", Orange County Jack "Stick" Robinson - Negro League Baseball Player - Orange County Mr. Blackwell, Activist - Big Brother Crusade, Los Angeles Pastor Chip Murray, Los Angeles Pastor TD Jakes, Texas Pastor Eddie Long, Atlanta, GA Pastor Aubrey P. Keys, Tustin, CA
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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2002 11:56:25 -0800 From: kelvin Subject: Re: Online Conversation About Living Black History
Let's not forget those African Americans that are famous only to us.
My uncle Leonard Jackson of Taft, Oklahoma, for 20 years owned the only Grocery store servings Taft. He used to let me run the counter a lunch time and on weekends. Taught me how to run a cash register, how to do inventory, to check what was and was not selling. From him I learned I wanted to have my own business, and do.
Like my better half Karyn, whom without her support, I could not have quit my job to start and run my own business.
And those who moderate and maintain boards like these were we can grow.
Kelvin Brown Blackwebhost.com AfricanAmericanBusinessDirectory.com Shopdcmetro.com
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From: Lioness [mailto:lioness147@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:49 AM To: TheBlackList; kwasi@t- Cc: Africaservice; NubianNetwork; - Subject: Re: [TheBlackList] Online Conversation About Living Black History
Bro. Neusom: Though, I fully agree that the same ole same ole names should not be bandied around year after year after year.... those that you put forward... though did not necessarily mention or state their names (and yes, I can state their names, their affiliations, and the manner and disposition of their souls... they have sold them)...
Brother Man, it is not just the leadership title or position.. or whether it was assumed or bestowed upon those put forth by you... it must also be accountable to the direction of where and to what ... these folk either intentionally or unintentionally take or are forced to take us.... there are those of us who are not, repeat NOT... goin' that way!
So, as we all have to be diligent and prudent in our quest for appropriate and accurate history (herstory) information to be passed onto all of us and within us and out of us.... we must be sure not to replace (as we tend to do in all strata and categories of life and industry and mis-edumacation)...replace one faux pau with an even larger one ... where the flame hitting the same pan... is far hotter, devious and destructive than the little the way --- no matter what; is going to be uncovered and reclaimed in just a minute!
much Afrikan Love,
*THE* Lioness
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From: "Reginald Ready" To: jneusom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [D.C. ENTREPRENEURS] Online Conversation About Living Black History Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:33:34
I feel your pain on this issue (smile). That's part of the reason why I'm submitting a business related black history fact every day this month, with the intention of perhaps submitting a black history fact once a week/month, after this month is up.
May God prosper you in body, soul, and spirit!
Reginald Ready
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:25:13 -0500 From: ShuQuanda Irvin Subject: RE: Street Talk - Online Conversation About Living Black History
Professor Cornell West is one
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<<I Challenge This Group To Name More Then Five .......>>
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:35:28 +0800 From: "Black Quest" Subject: More Than Five Geniuses
More than five geniuses By Jennifer Epps
Friday marked the beginning of Black History Month. As a black American, this month is a time for me to honor the contributions we have made. So why don't I have any positive memories of Black History Month from my childhood? Year after year, I learned about the same five figures in black history (Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Benjamin Banneker). Each year a different grade but the same five people. This tokenism made the month repetitive and uninteresting to me.
By the eighth grade I began to think, "Is this it? Is this all black people have done?" That was hardly the reaction Carter Godwin Woodson envisioned when he created Negro History Week, which grew into Black History Month in 1970.
This was my experience until my junior year of high school. I resented the fact that I was one of the only black students in my honors classes, and I tried hard to distance myself from what I felt was underachievement in my race. In many ways, I was ashamed of my blackness.
Then everything changed. I had a black teacher for the first time. In English class, I read books written by people like me. My class read James Baldwin, Ralph Emerson, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis and others. I learned that America wouldn't have been built or able to function without black people.
This country's economic power was built on the backs of enslaved blacks. Even Northern states, where slavery was not legal, relied on slave products for use and exportation. For example, the North was dependent on the rice and tobacco grown in the South using slave labor.
Blacks designed and built many of our cities. Benjamin Banneker, a black man, designed the nation's capital, Washington, in less than two days after the original white architect quit and took all of his plans with him. Two of the most important structures in the country - the U.S. Capitol and the White House - were built using slave labor.
I learned that we couldn't go about our daily routines without the contributions of black American inventors. We wouldn't have freshly ironed clothes without a black woman named Sarah Boone, who invented the ironing board.
Buying in bulk would be impossible without John Standard, a black man who invented the refrigerator. God forbid a family member ever needed heart surgery because without Charles Drew, a black scientist who found a way to preserve and store blood, and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a black man who performed the first open-heart surgery, this would not be possible.
I learned that relaxing to music would be nearly impossible without the contributions of blacks. Blacks helped create rock 'n' roll, jazz, the blues, two step, hip hop, R&B, soul and rap. Black history is American history. Many of the privileges we enjoy today are a direct result of the contributions blacks have made to our society. And it is important to learn this if we ever sincerely hope to address the issue of racism.
The writer is a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, majoring in integrated gender and ethnic politics.
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