I just read while I was surfing that the Black-German author and former Ebony/Jet Hans Massqquoi has died last Jan. His book Destined to Witness was made into a German miniseries of his life in Nazi Germany. I had purchased the DVD and seen only Part One. He would be missed. http://www.npr.org/2013/01/26/170281062/-ebony-editor-begin-life-in-nazi-germany http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/litera...r-hans-jurgen-massaquoi-ist-tod-a-878892.html
You notice how little to nothing was said in this country of this extraordinary man and his life. May he rest in peace. Imagine what our children could learn from him.
That's because a lot of people, especially younger black people, don't know who he was. If he didn't have a connection to Ebony & Jet magazines I doubt the black people who were aware of who he was through those magazines would know who he was.
A few pulications mentioned him like the Washington Post and in spite of the fact that the miniseries of him was about six years ago no one from TVOne or BET brought the rights to be shown here. This is Black History Month and you think there would be something different.
I share your frustration. There is so much black history that never gets any attention. The only tiny bit that the black intelligensia want to release to the schools in general is the same old tired civil rights (1960's) events. Even in that they do not fully tell the stories that should be told. This so-called black history month is a farce. What it should be expanded to is black world history to include the histories of blacks in Africa, The Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and yes even in the Middle East where the Arabs still enslave blacks. Even American history needs a real re-examination from the first slave settlements in the Americas to Booker T. Washington to Nat Turner. The history of learning for blacks in their creation of educational systems to learn when they were denied to read. We are still living in a period of self-slavery. The full contex of stories unfortunately will never be told.
There are Black History Months in the UK,Germany,and elsewhere. I got to find out if Massaquoi was mentioned in the German version?
