Black history is living, significant and important because Black people still continue to shape the nation in a very serious way. “You don’t do anybody a favor when you read Toni Morrison, you are doing yourself a favor,” Dyson said.
Despite the richness, diversity and identity Blacks have brought to the American identity, they have been called on to revoke and rescind any preoccupation they may have with the past injustices, he said.
“The problem with integrating Black history calls attention to some of the flaws and failures of America’s past,” Dyson said. “We are forever condemned as the conscience of the nation on the one hand and the subconscious of the nation on the other.”
But such reflection, Dyson says, is critical to the nation’s growth.
“We don’t want to keep rehashing the past, but if we can never tell the truth about what happened, then we can’t move beyond it.”
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