Diversity and Parliament: why is it important to celebrate Black History Month? Video Lecture | How does UK Parliament's Education Service works? - Personal Learning

the celebration of Black History Month
is important because there's a time when
black history exhibit Lord it's
important that we spend the time looking
at black history in all of its forms so
from inventors to creators to thespians
to everything I'd like to actually see a
time when we no longer have to celebrate
Black History Month that it's celebrated
constantly and continually so I like to
see that time when it's continually
celebrated and so but it's important
because I learned a lot during Black
History Month I meet different people I
talk to different people I always learn
something new about somebody I didn't
know about so it's important Black
History Month is important but I hope
there'll be a time when we'll no longer
have to do it in just one month
I think it's very important that Black
History Month is commemorated it's
celebrated because what it does is
brings to a wider audience the knowledge
about black people's contribution not
only to British society but throughout
the whole world one of my earliest
experiences when I was 12 years old
walking in the streets of Peckham in
South London where I lived was people
saying to me we didn't win the war for
you people to come here and take our
homes and our jobs and I was only a 12
year old so I felt very astonished by it
and the fact that on Matarazzo I was
totally ignorant about who contributed
to the war and indeed black and ethnic
minorities people's contributions
thousands hundreds of thousands of black
and Asian people died in the great Wars
Black History Month offers us all the
opportunities to learn
I think it's very important to
understand black history because that's
an essential part of the British story
and if you look at the British Empire
it's very much shaped the world we live
in today and one of the legacies of
Empire was multiculturalism and a
consequence of the end of the Empire was
that a lot of people from the outskirts
of the Empire if you like came to
Britain for various reasons to find work
to make a living and I think the modern
Britain that we have today is very much
a legacy of that and I think Black
History Month has a quite a crucial role
in explaining and making people
understand
it's really important that we celebrate
Black History Month and not just for
people but for all people because
through those stories Rosa Park
insisting or sitting where she wanted to
on the bus Martin Luther King Mandela
the black experience all the people who
are successful in our own country
through that all of us whatever the
color of our skin we take a universal
story of triumph of social justice of
perseverance and of achievement and of
fighting racism
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