Black History

For today's bellringer we were asked to write what our pledge would be to the African-American culture. I wrote that I pledged to take pride in my culture and respect all the other cultures in the African diaspora. We then watched a short biography about Maya Angelou, and analyzed a poem she made called "The Black Family Pledge". Then on the back of it we wrote 5 issues we see in the black community today. One of the issues I wrote down was black people calling other black people "white" for having interests, music, or a way of dressing that is not "typically black".

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