Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter, and it is Black History Month,

but for me it is Black History Month every damn day. Okay okay and i am very committed to the notion that

history not black history now history is super important because if we don't know our history we

will repeat it but also even worse we will end up rewriting it in our own image. And if you're not in power,

if you don't have control over the messaging that goes out and what goes in the books, then you

will end up a generation from now repeating somebody else's narrative about you. So up next,

I am having a discussion with you about black history and why it's not in schools

and then there are states that have actually mandated it.

What is your responsibility to make sure that they uphold that mandate?

Stay tuned.

Did you know that several states in our union, several states in America mandate that black

history and or civil rights history has to be taught in their public schools?

Did you also know that I think none of them are teaching it?

Matter of fact, I met with a school official last, a couple of weeks ago, and he pulls out

the state law in New Jersey that mandates that they

teach, it's called the Amistad Law, that they have to teach black history. And he said, you know,

Karen, nobody's adhering to this. Nobody's really doing it. And it's a mandate, which means

you must do it. And it's crazy when we look at, you know, school systems all over the country,

public schools that are telling black

kids that they can't wear their hair the way it grows out of their head because somehow

is a distraction and against the law. But they're not adhering to the law, which says you have to

teach the history. So maybe the administrators need to learn a history first. But more importantly,

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