Roving Camera 02/06/2014

We as a people need to know the struggles it took to get us here. We have to respect the struggles our people went through and uphold our culture. —Ronald Rowe, Merchant, Dorchester

Our black kids should know what our generation did. Many black kids don’t even know who Martin Luther King was. They don’t know what it meant to grow up in the South. —Deloris Rodriguez, City Clerk, Jamaica Plain

People have to know their history. For some people, they really want to know their roots and find out where they came from. —Robert Lee Jewitt, Cook, Roxbury

You have to know your history to know your worth on earth. My kids know my history. —Virginia Landrum, Case Specialist, Roxbury

It’s essential. It’s our culture. Our kids still think Christopher Columbus discovered America. It’s not true. —Frenchman Glover, Self-employed, Roxbury

To know where we came from. You have to know where you came from to go further in life. —Renee Rone, Customer Service, Roxbury