History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on a map of Human Geography! The role of history is to tell a people What they have been , Where they have been and what they are or where they are in this history as recorded in the minds and books of life!

The most important role that history plays is that it has the function Where they still must go and what they still must be...We the People of this world has struggled from day one and it's a matter of history written in many books in many libraries around the world!

As many of us know the month of February each year is known as Black History Month from it's inception as Negro history week in 1926 to it's current entity of Black History Month! For me as a survivor of a stroke in 2004 and the last child of a former Slave father as a child himself, I feel so honored to have been born in 1941 to my mom and father whose life was spared by his escape from slavery in Mississippi as a teenager!

Sometimes it's hard to understand what took America so long to end apartheid some 60 odd years ago and slavery long before that time after the freedom was declared against slavery! Now we all know Syria is in ruins with people and babies being killed by the hundreds daily. We will be able to look back years from now in the history books and wonder why it all happened! Presently it seems war is a thing in the near future of America with Russia. There will always be wars between countries when the two sides have different views about freedom for it's people.

Freedom of choices means so much to many people yet there are people that feel God should not be in the picture of freedom in public schools or public gatherings of people wanting to worship Him! For that reason but not alone the roles of history will be changing until the end of time. I still wonder today why do our children still have to add their native race, 'African, Latino, Irish or Asian' before they introduce themselves as Americans???

History of any nation is just not about it's industrialization, colonization or expansion. It is also about it's people, their culture, their trials and tribulations, sufferings and emancipation's. That's what American history is about. All the more Black heritage is a saga of transition. No race is better than the human race. This in turn brings about real change, infusing the removal of the shackles of bigotry to move forward towards humanity. This is the brotherhood of mankind!

Some of you are aware I just lost my oldest living brother on 16 January and laid to rest on 21 January 2012 who lived to be nearly 89 years old by 31 days! He taught me so many things about life including how to drive a car at age 14. My history role has been a wonderful ride and to this day I have so many blessings to be proud about including serving 22 years in the Army and returned home alive!

Fred!