During Halloween season, My Professor decided that he would have a dress up day for his students. The assignment was to dress up as your favorite or maybe well-known figure in political history. I decided to dress as Angela Davis (well known for her actions in the Black Panther Party during the Sixties) and my friend decided to dress as Sojourner Truth. Many people dressed as many different well-known and not so well known figures. My friend and I thought we had chosen people that renowned for their efforts in the Abolition of Slavery and The Civil Rights Movement. However we were proven drastically wrong. When we stood proudly to announce whom we dressed as, we were greeted with blank expressions and silent stares. No one in the entire class Except for my friend, the professor and I, knew the people we tried to represent, however, during a normal class period, the professor would ask us to identify people who played an insignificant part in history, by comparison standards, and at least five people would raise their hand. That day I was truly saddened by my counterpart's lack of knowledge of their history. The ignorance did not stop there. Through out the rest of the day, I ma

In Conclusion, during the 2001 School year here at The University of Louisville, a white fraternity (whose name I will purposely omit) dressed in black face for Halloween. They also had a fellow fraternity member, who happened to be African American, dress as a Klu Klux Klan Member. It was an incident that hit the national news scope and shocked all that witnessed and heard the event. The question I will leave with you is, would the members of that fraternity have participated in such an event if they were taught about "Mistral Shows" when they were younger? If they knew what "black face" symbolized and how utterly disrespectful the act was to the African American community, would they have initiated such an event? Lastly, If that Black Man would have known how much havoc and destruction the Klu Klux Klan, rendered upon our race, would he have belittled himself by dressing as one of their members? Those questions can never be answered, since those acts have already occurred, but we can help prevent an incident of such ignorance from happening again. All we have to do is introduce a little more collective American History in this education curriculum and not focus so much on the European American History. We've come so far from the days of segregation, but we have not reached total equality yet. Help our children to not let history repeat it's self. Help them to learn and coexist as one.

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