thinks that you have no culture or you have no history you know when they ask you something somewhat i ask a black person the other day how many generations can you trace back in this person you know but because people don't know their history and they don't know their culture they can't even ask the questions when people give them their stupid questions they can even add to the problem so that's the answer if we don't want our kids being stupid and acting stupid and not having a vision of where they've been and where they're going were hopeless and so black history month is to make children aware of their long long long ethnographic history in the world their contributions to culture their contributions to the culture of this society like i wrote a book called the black revolt and it's about how blacks liberated themselves you know historically in the united states you know and we didn't just get liberated because they wanted us to be free you know we had to go through a whole series of strateg devices to make white people decide they cannot keep this society going the way they were going you know there were over four hundred slave revolts very few people know that you see and that's part of this long history of liberation and so black history is about teaching about all of these strategies then a geisha and any c p s legislation the speak coalitions with other ethnic groups in order to you know get more political power which is what blacks are trying to do now to put maybe put somebody in office like obama who will protect their interests so their whole series of these strategies like litigation they just lation rebellion coalition and so forth and there in my book the black or both of this all these all of the world yeah  if you allow me to do this i like to do it this way i don't want to lose connections i don't i don't want to jump from this to the other so my my my solution for th over a powerful european white power not many people know about it so i want to share the so i can show some definite facts i want i sustained every seventy percent casualty and eighteen hundred italians were taken prisoners of war the significance of for the poor political crisis taking place in italy and moreover it's now universally recognized by political marked the turning point in the scramble for africa and set the stage for the struggle against claudi situation and the direction of our future closed the chapters of two protagonists standing with people determination one to colonize and dominate and the other equally to determine  people of color could be challenged independence and liberation movements in africa and pan african their movements in diaspora as well their only evidence of that victory registered the most devastating defeat sustained by the god's creation and discriminate between man and man whom god created equal on the basis of color race and creed color support himself disaster  and finally he said let no man forget that africans differ from no other people in the world they love those that love them i don't know if any were teaching in ethiopia when you were younger and in fact i had some few things here but i didn't want to take more time so i am going to add to it the reason i bring it up is because when i was looking for people to interview i ran into this ethiopian man who works for one of the universities seattle you and he says his father was an american black american from a black college and his brother was a the and his father had gone to ethiopia to help transfer technological education to ethiopia's and other words to black from black black professors  many many decades and ethiopia stimulated by what he was telling you about pan african ism and how these black americans saw a free ethiopia as a as a way of freeing all black people including the black people in the south where the students were still in segregated schools so there is a real connection and it goes back a long time in fact one or two americans became  capturing memories and moments in time and that's really  to learn software it's accessed by really like the community we have going on in the program like everyone super friendly and you know we just like mixing with each other and i really enjoyed  power them to create their own message in their own media and represent their own communities and see what kind of kind of voice and imagination that they have i have definitely learned a lot of wildlife photography and how to you know frame a picture and they street church in manhattan in new york to attend a sunday church service but when told to go back to the slave but rather by deeply failed and justifiable need to end discrimination of black people in the mainstream churches now it's interesting war and envy and the welfare of president lincoln and congratulating him on the positive action that he took on behalf of africans under slavery in the united states leaders the first order of business for those imperial big mysteries was to receive their hotels six very prominent african american leaders from harlem in new york imperial delegation went to the metropolitan baptist church where they were welcomed not only in the name of harm or harm might but in the name of black folks throughout the united states very well known man a medical doctor who is also or if your pet and for to london to england came to the united states while in repeated the invitation to african americans to come to that to ethiopia as perfection of the main farmers and even settlers the great service you could render yourself your country he says would be to influence thousands of african americans in the united states to come and help us develop is the opium that was the mes came for to talk to to get across and interesting enough this man after his visit to new york he went back home never went to washington d c to make any  again in one hundred thirty three another group of high government delegation led by the son in law of and for himself a purposeful visit to you new to you to new york city quite a new york they had long interview with african american representatives from harlem the different emperors had come to you know it's nice to get blacks who were going to college in these different agricultural and engineering schools to come to transfer their there were technology  their skills to to ethiopia yes so and i think this is important because a lot of people a lot of young people think that this is on both sides ethiopians and american children they don't really know this history so they think that they're in a mess or they think that they're you know their competitors rather than cooperate to people and we need to know that there is this over one hundred years of one black backward nation how would that defeat a powerful european white army in the battlefield and they couldn't answer that question  in fact prior to the war today i do a battle for some fifteen twenty twenty five years in europe germans and others who are writing articles what's interesting here is that knew that propaganda suddenly invaded the whole of the whole world whatever black shot this news got that got there first oh goodness books you noted and you know as well professor that the younger generation korea first because this history will be lost if not captured and we don't have a place resource where they can go access that information because why now  notion maybe some of us care not maybe everybody and i think you described richie about how the challenges because that in your book and talked about talked about his own challenges now we reach to gone through a time you know twenty thirty forty years and we were here today where we see a lot of our new members of society whether they're born here a second generation or maybe born here and now exist or live here i think there's a lot of misconceptions the stereotypes that are understanding and can see the benefit of obviously you know now we are both here then after obviously after americans here a lot longer than us but how do we exist in the society for and maybe if we look at the mutual benefit  well at the university level and i want to stay on that level very low there are youth yoking in snow who are teaching black studies courses so they're bringing a whole new paradigm to have in common and also what they have in common going forward in terms of co op collaborating and cooperating on liberating all black people because the  african american already knows that they can't just liberate themselves and we're hoping that ethiopians will see that they even if white people think that they're partly wh or white people think that if we treat the theo peons better then we treat african americans who were born here they'll be on our side are quite on the white side of the political spectrum and so both african americans and ethiopian americans have to show that see that they they have a common interest common living liberation common expansion of opportunity on but we need to also organize together because many of these european straight here and and in c and seattle have discovered  that they are being discriminated against because of race and so they now feel like they too need to join the movement to liberate all of all people of one blade here and one leg  this tendency for haps culturally probably that's that's what it stems out from that they forget that there are blacks say really strongly enough i could never to forget this if we forget we could be extremely disappointed this is extremely important now what  kept saying really heated many times and that is have a common interest concentrate on common interests because that's the only salvation we are otherwise would be would be would extremely disappointed  separate ourselves if we if we try to separate from the black community we're alone and when you're when you're alone you know you can be you can be you can be in danger anybody any any anybody who take advantage of you but if you have people of the same interest then you have somebody to help you simple as that really so this is this is what i what i w we need to really put it in the minds of our young people in for as a matter of fact our young people are better in this in this situation then they have more connection with the black americans that than the older generation because of the fact that they are that they consider themselves any different is simply because of culture they have all wish you know yes they always have felt independent very self confident if i could if i could tell you one when instance that extremely important to me and the british who have colony or do something by force if your guys have guns they wouldn't they wouldn't blink using their guns on this and just british because they don't think that  reading we we came from ethiopia whatever we go with that's what we carry around and that is very very very dangerous at times because we have to we have to change sometimes we have to use it to our advantage cooperate and work together with those who could help us in times of