Remembering Black History Memorial Weekend
Although Memorial Day is a time when people in this country gather to remember the lives of soldiers who lost their lives, a local activist is calling for African Americans to celebrate by remembering other events that many in this country would like to forget.
This Memorial Day weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre aka the bombing of Black Wall Street, where a white mob attacked the business district of Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921. Minister Paul Scott, founder of the Durham NC based Black Messiah Movement is concerned that with House Bill 324 and the attack on anti-racism education, discussion of tragic events like this will become banned in public schools.
“It’s important for our children to know this history. Not only what happened to Black Wall Street in Oklahoma , but also what happened to Black Wall Street in Durham , not to mention the massacre that happened in Wilmington, says Scott.
North Carolina has become a battleground state in the war against critical race theory and anti-racial education . Earlier this month, the NC House of Representatives passed House Bill 324 which will ban anti-racism education and also, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the controversial 1619 Project was denied tenure at the University of North Carolina. Earlier this week an Alamance county school board meeting erupted over the school year book referencing the Black Lives Matter protests that took place in 2020.
According to Scott, the controversy over critical race theory has not really been discussed in the marginalized African American community but has been dominated by Conservatives. Scott is on a mission to inform the Black community about the anti-racism education efforts taking place in North Carolina.
“This weekend the same people who are celebrating American history will be trying to ban educators from teaching ours, ‘’ says Scott. “Between Memorial Weekend and Juneteenth I am determined to make sure that we never forget what has been done to the Black community.”
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