Journal Reflection #3 In Your Opinion, Why Does The U.s. Story-Telling Class

Resistance and Revolution Student Name Course Date Instructor Resistance and Revolution The greatest, longest, and most violent fight for recognition as equal citizens in US involved African Americans whose status as once-inferior people had even been documented in the constitution. Today, the long-term historical trajectory of the African-American struggle for life, liberation, recognition, and equality among others have been overlooked for different reasons in the US storytelling class today. When mentioned in American education, the history on African American Civil Rights Movement only emphasizes on the mid 20th century civil rights era, a time marked by major resistance in terms of clear, major, and greatest advancements and achievements in the African American struggle for liberation. Starting the history from this period clearly eradicates the dark history of enslavement, torture, and murder of African Americans at the hand of the American white man (Markowicz, 2017). Reasons for Historical Exclusion from Education Excluding the dark history in education enables hiding important historical information that explains todays wrong notion of a default white male American history. In fact, this white male wrong notion view reflects in todays violent hate crimes, racially biased policing, and the resistance to bring down the Confederate flag. Today,