It took me a long time to think about exactly how I wanted to word this first posting. I wanted to stay faithful to the webpage title, the Historical Memory Recovery Channel, but at the same time I did not want to repeat the ‘usual, mainstream Black History’ subjects (Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X, George Washington Carver, etc., for example) that the white media and historians seem to dwell upon, especially in February. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that the above mentioned Black heroes are worthy to be noted and recognized, but there is more to Black History than the few Black Americans that are emphasized by the media in general, and what is being taught in our educational system in particular.
The first thing that the reader must understand is that the term, ‘Black History’ (or any non white hyphenated American history), is an invented idea in order to categorize non-whites as ‘different’ or ‘not as important’ as white people in American history. The myth that American History is, by default, white history, needs to be dispelled. Why isn’t United States history called American White-History’? After all, the majority of published US historical books are almost exclusively a history of mostly dead white men. My goal with this channel is to de-emphasize this ‘selective’ white history and emphasize on the important people who happened to NOT be white males. American History is much more diverse and interesting than the ‘American History’ taught in schools today.
The Historical Memory Recovery Channel 