Watch this, come Monday, February 13

I can't implore you enough to watch this television program, Monday, February 13 on PBS. It is "Slavery by Another Name", based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon. It's too important. I think most Americans think they know our history. But we don't. We need to know what happened. We need to know how we got here. This is a start. Finally, I think a question needs to be asked. That is, could not, is not the current, modern day situation of the men in African-American families not being around for so many of their wives/girl friends/mothers of their children, possibly, likely an outgrowth, then, of all these black men having been taken, arrested and imprisoned under false pretenses from the Civil War until after World War II? I think the possibility is there. This also is yet one more example of just exactly why we, as a nation and as a people need PBS. No one else would tell this story. Links: http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSJbdGs8DA&feature=related; http://youtu.be/FY0GZ46IgDg; http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/sneak-preview-slavery-another-name