Module 8 Critical Reaction

I wouldn’t say we have an ethical responsibility to learn about African history but we definitely do have an ethical responsibility to acknowledge that there is African history. The main reason I don’t think we have that responsibility is that some African cultures may very well want to keep that history and knowledge to themselves as they may view it as being sacred to their people as stated in the T chart we examined. When it comes to the African history that is open to us, my view changes as it is really the only place nobody is taught about in K-12 school. To me that’s really not a good step towards equality, we spent years learning about white Europeans doing pretty terrible things, and yet the only African history we ever learned of was slavery. The fact that slavery was the reason for the shunning of any African history is something that should have been corrected a long time ago. So in general what I’m saying is that if certain African cultures want to keep that history for themselves then we obviously should let it be, but everything that is open to us we should most certainly not only be learning now but should have learned in K-12 school.