Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the executive producer of a documentary about the black Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War. He says their stories aren't in history books because 'anybody who was not European was not seen as being worth depicting.'
On why we don't know these stories
Well, we don't know the stories already because people who write history books, or who have written most of the history books have focused on what European Americans thought, and what their objectives were, and what they did to make those objectives become real. And anybody who was not European was not seen as being worth depicting, because their stake in it seemed to be non-existent. This nation was founded by white people, for white people. At the time, blacks were not allowed citizenship.
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