Surely the whole point about Black History Month is that we are reversing the erasing of history? Before, we never used to really study the origins and culture of black people. Most of us knew practically nothing about the African civilisations that pre-dated colonisation by the whites.
And of course the same is true for the Americas, the far east and the Indian sub-continent - Did you know India for example was the richest country in the world for over 1700 years until the British turned up? Or that the Incan civilisation had an extremely advanced civil service?
I reckon it's a good thing that thanks to initiatives like BHM, we can learn a bit more about the wider history of the world beyond just the bits that the white colonials did.
