Mission Statement

     African Americans have been the subject of abuse and neglect from the United States government since the first African was sent to America. From the way people treated them to the policies that were used to destroy the future of African Americans, African Americans were prevented the basic human rights that Americans are given through the Constitution for hundreds of years. When America became a country and the term was coined "land of the free and home of the brave", there were people that owned other people. African Americans, even after the Civil War, were still subjected to violence, disrespect, and treatment that is not of an American citizen. There were different ways that these White Americans were able to get away with doing these things to African Americans. Some White Americans today try to downplay the negative treatment of African Americans by saying things such as "that happened years ago, get over it!" or "your ancestors went through those things, you are not." One of the ways that White Americans kept African Americans down was by writing their own narrative about Black Americans. The goal of Reconstructing Black Facts is to rewrite the narrative that racist White Americans wrote about Black people and we will reconstruct these false narratives and reveal the truth about Black people's lives, thought process and culture. 

 “You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history" -Ta-Nehisi Coates