Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Not "Black" History

Gerboise Bleue - 50 Years Ago This Week
In the atmosphere above Algeria's southern Sahara - France detonated a 70 kiloton nuclear bomb to join the US, Soviet Union and Great Britain as a nuclear-armed state.
The test came in response to Algerian leader Jacques Massui's vague threats against the French government in which he and his followers played a crucial role in having Charles de Gaulle installed as leader.

Abyssinian Crisis - 75 Years Ago This Week
In the border area between Ethiopia and Italian-Somalia - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini dispatched 35,000 soldiers into the area in preparation for a full scale invasion of one of the last two independent African states.
(As part of my tutoring my young cousins in "Black" History - these two incidents popped up.
There is no such thing as "Black History" - Black History is World History.)

2 comments:

brohammas said...

you know its world history, but all the high school teachers dont

Mr. Noface said...

@brohammas I wouldn't say all. I didn't know that black history was really world history (let alone American history) until my junior year of high school (via my year long AP History course).