Black History Month

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The month of February is black history month.I feel as if it is underestimated by both the blacks and whites. We as americans don’t take the time to look back to review the history because we are to worry about the next paycheck or the big thing. When we don’t know that what we take for granted was invented by the African Americans who fought for our rights. Without these things we will not have over half of the stuff we have today. For example, the cell phone the device that we as humans are addicted to. Did you know that Henry Sampson was the engineer behind this creation.He graduated from Morehouse University. He majored in engineering. We don’t take the time and look into theses things. As long as our phones are not broken we don’t care

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