Black History Is American History

Should Black History Month Be Eliminated? Or, A Great Debate

By: Thomas Jerome Baker

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Who is this book intended for? Answer: Everyone. Students of debate will find it interesting, useful, and helpful. In fact, ALL people who are concerned with social equality, equal opportunity, and justice will find this book extremely useful. One of the most important uses of this book is not what your opinion is after you finish reading the debate between my friend and myself, but the opportunity to see how two people with extremely opposite views were able to interact with one another in a mutually respectful manner on a very contentious issue. The outcome? You, the reader, can decide who won. When topics are emotionally charged, the current wisdom is to be silent, don’t talk about anything that might make someone else angry, upset, or afraid. When we follow this advice, we never learn how to talk to one another about things that matter. This debate between Mr. Clark and myself clearly teaches how people can talk to one another about things that matter. With this book, you are privileged to see how debate helps people with different opinions, different perspectives and different cultural experiences, to talk with one another, to share their views and visions with one another. I sincerely believe that this exercise helps bring people together, even when all you can do, sometimes, is agree to disagree. Allow me a final quote: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.