Why is it that Africans and Black people in American don't know their history?

Answer 1

Cause they don't care? Haha.

Answer 2

I would tend to say that the majority of Americans do not know there history, and that this holds true of all the irregardless of origin or race.
I do not believe that Africans or Blacks know more or less about history than any other groups of people.

Answer 3

Politics within the black communities. Lot of slaves did not want recall the past. Most did not know where they come from because it wasn't taught.

One is modern politics that will not talk about the french and spanish slaves and how groups in africa rounded up their fellow blacks. Or the arab slave markets in north africa.

Slavery did not start or end with the very short period of North American slavery.

Answer 4

Why do you only perceive an ignorance of a specific area of history among a specific group, when I perceive an ignorance that's pretty general among the population?

Take a look at high schools, are the kids up to speed in math or english or science?

Why single out history?

Answer 5

I believe you're talking about DEEP history. But it seems to me that a lot (not all) of African Americans are still hell-bent on the fact that white people used them as slaves back during the Civil War, and they still haven't gotten over that fact.

For example, the schools in my area are banning the Confederate Flag because it's "racist" when it's openly flown in front of court houses and is a state flag and nationally recognized symbol. Yet the African Americans can wear FUBU attire to school? Which stands for "For Us By Us" now if THAT'S not racist I don't know what it is. It runs both ways.

Answer 6

Africans and Black do not known their own history for the same reason as women, Socitey does not value their work as much as wasp males

Answer 7

Good Question. I don't know, i learning my history in African American History. Its good class, I'm learning alot. I told myself and my friends, to learn your history because you understand your future alooooot better, definitely that JENA 6 crap!

Answer 8

Because they're too engaged in getting crunk and otherwise behaving like the animals that vulgar culture's unrestrained lusting after riches presses upon them.

Answer 9

Because they have been christianized and chistianity implies to obey to the masta.
Those who became muslims did it only to fool their masta.

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African-american !!!!
What a shame and racist expression.
Does that means that people coming from Egypt, Lybia, North-Africa, all the trans-saharian african countries who lives in US are not african ?

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They hate the N word but Leopold Sedar-Sendor, the great african poet, honoured the negritude and said that the term "Negre" was the most valuable for black poeples

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After all, St Augustine said the blacks have been created by god to be slaves, so did Abdallah ben Sayd in 652

“The only people to accept slavery are the ******, because of a lower degree of humanity, their place being closer to the animal stage” said Ibn Khaldoun

Black american asked for appologies from their white masters but the genocide of 16 M of black poeple whose men were castrated by their muslims masters, nobody aks

Answer 10

uhh i dont know my american history.
ahh maybe that has to do with the fact that im half black. nah, some people just dont want to learn it i guess. i never had an intrest in american history its so boring.

Answer 11

Maybe because they have been left out of the history books.