I have a feeling everyone wasn't shouting the correct answer to this "Final Jeopardy" question.
In a recent episode of Jeopardy, three contestants were presented with the statement, "The 1948 edition of this publication said, 'There will be a day...in the near future when this guide will not have to be published.'"
And...
it looked like...
Only one person asked the right question.
This is the face you make when you know for a fact you're invited to the cookout.
But Jeopardy barely touched on "what the Green Book is." So, here's a hint:
It's more than just a 2018 "white savior complex" movie starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen.
The Negro Motorist Green Book or The Negro Travelers' Green Book was a travel guide published during the segregation era in the United States that identified safe businesses like restaurants, hotels, gas stations, etc., for Black travelers to visit.
According to some folks on Twitter, it wasn't just two-thirds of the Jeopardy contestants who had no clue what the Green Book was.
It's not their fault the real history of The Green Book isn't widely known. This isn't the first time Black history was glossed over in our education system. Thanks to Black media, people finally learned what "sundown towns" were from HBO's Lovecraft Country and the "1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" from Watchmen.
And of course, Black Twitter was shocked to find out that the American history of The Green Book wasn't common knowledge.
In the words of Beyoncé's latest album, Renaissance, "America. America has a problem." We need to make sure we're teaching ALL of American history, Black or white, good or bad. It's never too late to learn our history.
What parts of American history did you only learn when you were older or that were glossed over when you were in school?
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