As you explore this website you might be asking yourself why this history matters? To me it matters because it influences all of American society today and due to this history of exclusion and eracism many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People Of Color) are still treated as less than white Americans.

Until there is justice for everyone there is no justice. We are all connected and this history is our shared history.

In order to better help to understand how the things that happened hundreds of years ago could still be impacting people today here is an explanation of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by author Dr. Joy DeGruy:

How did we get here as a society? Let’s look at the history of how the myth of race was created and racism was born: