Black History Month: | Eastern NC Now

    It is getting close to the end of Black History Month. I have not seen any articles about famous Black Americans. As I child, I read "The Peanut Man," a biography on that famous chemist, George Washington Carver, who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. My wife worked at the Dubois School in Wake Forest named after W.E.B. Dubois, a famous educator.

    Here is a more modern citing of important Black Citizens in the USA:

    Some of my best workers have been black. My son used to say he enjoyed the black guys in high school because they had more fun than his white friends. When we start respecting and friending one another, it can be a far better world. Thankfully, I do not see abject racial prejudice in practice in Beaufort County.