Black History Month

Black History Month?  I never thought that almost 50 years after the signing of the civil rights act that the USA would still need this.   When I was young, in my school books I read some things about Africans that are difficult for me to believe now.  Some examples are "Indians were too civilized to become slaves" and "Africans were better off because the English civilized by providing them Christianity". 

It has been reported that last year members of the Tennessee Tea Party had a press conference and stated "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."  Many people are claiming this was last year but in early January 2012 the Tennessee Tea Party announced they were suspending actions to "redirect focus on faith based initiatives and education."  They also said "the current state of affairs in the country calls for a return back to the foundation of faith and morality in which this country was founded."

We as a nation need to tell the true history.  The Bible tells the "sinful" and "saintly" acts and does not try to cover wrongs.  Sorry Tennessee Tea Party our founding fathers were hypocrites, they intruded on the Native Americans and we cannot try to justify those acts.  They were also great men and did “try” to build this country on Judeo-Christian values; but they were just men with flaws just like us.  We will continue to grow if we acknowledge and report our entire history and then there will not be a need for Black history, Women's history or any other history month.