How Many of You Made History Yesterday? (Spoken Word by Ezra Cunningham)

From the Album Here I Stand: Elder’s Wisdom; Children’s Song (Smithsonian Folkways)

How many of you made history yesterday? You made history yesterday?
Sure enough? Now wait a minute.
Somebody’s holding a hand up saying they did,
and somebody’s shaking their head
and saying they didn’t make no history yesterday.
Everybody in here made history yesterday.
Because yesterday pass and it is gone,
and whatever happened is in the past, that’s history.
But, when you come to school, we generally think about history
as what we see in a book.
But you see, you can’t put all history in a book.
So, you got a lot of history that is not in the book that is valuable.
And sometimes it is more valuable than the history that is in the book.
Now, didn’t nobody write about what you did yesterday,
so that is not written history.
It’s what we call oral history.

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