By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

We don’t need the government to tell U.S. that only in February


The birth month of, Frederick Douglas,  one of greatest abolitionists, in memory

That it will reluctantly and hesitantly teach U.S. a watered-down version of our glorious Black History.





The only  history books about Black folks in which the joke of a  Governor, Ron  Desantis,  would approve of, is a history that’s “anti-woke”.





Like the  Rage Against The Machine song-Bulls On Parade:

“They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove em”


Not just because the books make their “snowflake” children feel guilty, about the harsh realities of slavery,  Black Codes, Jim Crow, red lining ,  and for-white-profit and black-agony  penitentiaries, where like cattle,  inmates are kept  behind barb wire fences and are kept in check by armed sentries



The books are removed to control the minds of the youth and future policy makers for another century.








Forgot about black history lessons that will inspire the adolescences


No true stories of how Harriet Tubman , like a black woman Moses,  spread justice  through treacherous enemy  lines,  like it was the red sea and  freed her fellow woman and man from  white brutality, chains , whips , and rapes of Antebellum southern slavery, Or how she became a union spy who risked her life behind  crimson soaked bloody earth  to bring clandestine information to the union to help save northern army lives.








I’m sorry, but in American public pre-schools to universities, in deeply and  devilishly red states run by makers of political policies like “anti-woke” lady Arkansas Governor,  Sarah Huckabee,  in class your babies, young men and ladies will never learn about great men like Pan-Africanist and black freedom fighter, Marcus Mosiah Garvey .





No information on Egypt’s 25th Dynasty, that’s when in 744 BC Nubian King, Piye (Piankhi), conquered Egypt,  and reunited the two African lands of splendid gold jewelry and granite stone pyramids into one  Nile Valley Monarchy .






No revolutionary history from the year 1804, that’s when a bunch of poorly treated and trained,  self-freed maroons, brought black doom and apocalyptic misery upon  Napoleon’s Imperial navy and Army in Haiti


This defeat forced the Empire of  France  to sell its remaining  15 states in the “louisiana purchase” territories   for a meager 15 million dollar fee

Creating much of the land in the country of the land of the free that you currently see from sea to shining sea.






At an “anti-woke” elementary, high school, or university,  they might let you hear about MLK’s “I Have A Dream”, but you never hear that  the dream  was also anti-Vietnam war or that the dream included reparations for the descendants of the blacks who suffered the world’s worst froms of brutality,  lynchings, Jim Crow and slavery.





No student research paper  inquiries on  how in 1999, in a court in Tennessee,  the King family won  civilly against Jowers, and several U.S.  government agencies,  for their part in the Dr.King assassination conspiracy.






If we leave it to the Alt-Right, suspected white supremacists podcasters like Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro types to rewrite black history,  it will read and only in February:

Blacks were put in Antebellum slavery due to their mental inferiority,  and kept in modern slavery (mass incarceration) due to their criminality. 

No mention of systematic white supremacy,  mis-education, and over-policing and poverty.