Blog Question #1

This African American studies class will be valuable to me because it fulfills my humanities requirement for general education and since I am a business major, hopefully I can learn how influential African Americans shaped the industries that we depend on today. My general knowledge of African American culture is poor, so hopefully this class can fill in some of that empty space. I find it quite shocking that the African American culture and equal rights movement is not being educated to the extent it should be. For such an important era which changed the lives of millions, I don't see how it could be overlooked. From noticing how many students say they weren't thoroughly taught the history of African American culture, I think that our education system has a serious flaw in it. I think that it would be beneficial to many students if more schools would teach the history of not only African American culture, but also Latino and Asian cultures in their curriculum.