Kathleen O’Connor Wang

I am thankful to Henry Louis Gates for his efforts to bring forth the history of black Americans to PBS watchers. I donated for first time in long time. I ordered his important work. Want to show my grandkids.

This series shows the barbarism of our country. States like Arizona and Texas want to suppress this history and also shameful history of US treatment of indigenous including Mexican peoples whose land US took. My grandchildren are related to Mexican roots which are also indigenous to this continent. My people came from Ireland who were considered black I learned recently. My husband and later his sisters came from Taiwan. My son-in-law from the Philippines. My daughter-in-law’s mother’s father is Native American. My son’s father who is in Nigeria has sisters,brothers and a daughter who immigrated. We all benefited from struggles of those who came before us. All of us as Americans have a debt owed to the slaves who built our country and fought for US to live up to its words in our founding documents and forced by civil rights battles to live up to its promise.