From Rebecca Johnson's pen:

We live in a time in which the mindset and culture of the African-American community is under attack, including a movement to prevent our young people from understanding that Slavery was a major benchmark in the foundation of the United States of America.  Moreover, the particular version of Slavery instituted in the United States, was a jarring, incomprehensible affront to the promotion of human rights worldwide.  American Slavery has affected every aspect of the development of the United States of America into a world power.  The unfettered financial benefits of American Slavery have served as the basis of our country becoming the international, intercontinental, financial, industrial and technological giant which it currently is.

African- Americans never benefitted from Slavery, and in fact have suffered immense harm from Slavery and its toxic aftermath, which includes Institutional Racism in general.  In too many communities in the United States of America, there is an overall movement, even prevalent in public governmental and educational settings, to mute the voice of truth, and to rewrite American history, excluding the evil of Slavery's history and the never-ending battle to put an end to Institutional Racism.  The enemies of truth would instead prefer for us to believe that African slaves and their descendants benefitted from Slavery.  Nothing could be further than the actual truth.

Rest assured that there is a plethora of well-researched, historical documentation which provides accurate recitations of African-American history and our battles for civil rights enforcement and against Institutional Racism.  We must pursue an understanding of where we have come from, the progress we have achieved and what tasks and goals still yet remain to be completed, in order to make us whole, as a people.

One particularly popular documentary, which summarizes African-Americans' civil rights struggle against Institutional Racism during the 20th century, is titled Eyes on the Prize.  I strongly encourage you to allow your young people to watch this informative documentary, in order to contribute to their understanding of the achievements realized by African-Americans engaged in the never-ending struggle for civil rights enforcement and racial equality in these great United States of America.  

Please click the link below to access this documentary series:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/