African History Petition

Children's brains are sponges and they want to know everything fast. That rate of wanting to know things fast, has increased even more these days with the help of the internet. Children also deserve the right to have access to the truth, and as much of it as possible. History falls into that category aswell, as this is paramount to how children grow up and look at the world. When I became an age old enough to understand there was an "event" called black history month, I was never ever a fan of it. Regardless of race, how can you justify trying to highlighting history of a race in just one month? What's so special about that month? Why not two or three months? Hold on why not just have the idea behind "black history month" and place that somewhere that people can access it on a regular basis? The history of any race isn't a trending topic that comes and goes, or is popular and the whole rage but then forgot about months later like fashion. 

The sad thing about it is, some corners of society expects us to be over the moon, that a month is dedicated to black history. And I understand some quarters will say "at least you have a month dedicated to your history". Whoopdie Wooooooo can I have some hot chocolate and cheesecake aswell please? Why can't we just get rid of the "month" and place the information that children deserve in school as a stable subject. Subjects being taught at school are another matter, as I believe some life skilled subjects should be taught like saving money etc..... So it's fantastic news that there is a petition that is pushing to get African history taught in schools on a regular basis. Miss Stephanie Pitter has created the petition to get this into action, it currently stands at over 32,000 signatures but need to get 100,000. I hope that many of my friends who have influenced on the scene, will help drive this to break the 100,000 mark.

Please help us show a strength in numbers by making sure children have access to African history in school. It takes a few minutes to sign the petition and if this goes to plan, the feeling of knowing you contributed to that, would be anything less than priceless. 

Please visit Introduce African History To The Primary Curriculum. Thanks for your time :-)