2007-02-21 14:14:55 · 6 answers · asked by Lil M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
If we don't know where we have been, we cannot assess where we are. Once we assess where we are, we can better plan for where we want to go.
Marcus Garvey said that a people without the knowledge of their history is like a tree with out roots which soon will wither and die.
2007-02-21 15:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course, the reason to be educated in history, especially black history, is to avoid repeating it.
For example, my family is black, but we don't have any slave history. I learned a great deal by reading slave narratives and autobiographies, even by reading books like 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to be able to recognize when people I encounter at work or other places try to give me 'slave treatment.'
As for general history, it has been proven that coming up with more 'humane' ways to execute people doesn't work; the guilliotine was supposed to be more 'humane' than hanging or having your head chopped off or being burned at the stake, but the fact was that it was so efficient that thousands more people could be executed in a short time. So they executed thousands at a time, efficiently, for almost no reason at all. So today, when you hear someone say that there must be a better way to kill people than the electric chair, or lethal injection, or whatever, keep in mind that there's no 'humane way' to kill people at all. History has already shown us that.
2007-02-21 22:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion learning history only matters if it is the actual way that it happened; I don't care if it means that blacks didn't do all of the inventions claimed(looking for a non-baised source to verity or validate that) or that the Africans had contact with the natives in the Americas before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (even though I know this one is true)
A wise man once told me that it's amazing to know history because in a way if you know the past you can predict the future
2007-02-21 22:18:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be an informed intelligent human being. To know the history of yourself and the others around you makes a worldly open minded indiviual.
2007-02-21 22:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You need more than a history lesson to ask a dumb@ss question like that.
2007-02-22 01:42:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
history is the timeline of the developement of the culture. If you dont know the history of your people, then you really dont know who you are.
2007-02-21 22:23:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋