Celebrating Black History

[AYHJA]

This is pretty cool...

http://www.ls.cc.al.us/blackhistory/blackhistory.html

[darklighter1]

Merry Black History month Ube!

[g00b3r]

I have mega issues with this whole black history month. For starters why do we even have months dedicated to certain races? Shouldn't EVERY month be a celebration of EVERY human being?

Second do they do this anywhere besides in the US?

Third........all other points aside............why is black history month the shortest month of the year? Isn't it just a bigger slap in the face?

I may have sounded like a complete idiot/ass/close-minded bitch whatever. :?

[darklighter1]

Well January, March, APril, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December are kinda white history months so if anyone wants one just step up and ask. I as the duly elected spokesman for the white race will (if any Asians or Latinos even want one) throw ya a bone. :callme:

[g00b3r]

I thought there was a Latin or Hispanic history month? I say this only because I got it from a reliable source.....ya know a late night comedian.

[darklighter1]

I thought there was a Latin or Hispanic history month? I say this only because I got it from a reliable source.....ya know a late night comedian.

I never authorized it. But if they fill out the proper paperwork I will consider it.

[Drew]

Well race is the most prominent social issue in the United States, so it is of no surprise that other countries wouldn't have months dedicated to celebrating the history of certain races. I'm sure there's an answer out there as to why Feb is BHM, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with it being the shortest, and any discussion of that as relevant seems ridiculous to me.

Now I'm not black, so I cannot speak to how this month makes other races feel, but I think the way it is often celebrated is a bunch of crap. I'm all for celebrating black history and praising individuals who deserve it....but I'm sick of seeing depictions of a bunch of people who white people feel should be recognized. My school has this collage of a bunch of people they consider important to black history....and they don't include Malcolm X. It just doesn't make sense to me and just makes me sick how its still up to the white man to decide, even in a month made to celebrate black history, that we get to pick and choose who is worthy to celebrate.

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I thought there was a Latin or Hispanic history month? I say this only because I got it from a reliable source.....ya know a late night comedian.

I never authorized it. But if they fill out the proper paperwork I will consider it.

It's either September or October, one of the orange (and brown) leaf months.

Well race is the most prominent social issue in the United States, so it is of no surprise that other countries wouldn't have months dedicated to celebrating the history of certain races. I'm sure there's an answer out there as to why Feb is BHM, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with it being the shortest, and any discussion of that as relevant seems ridiculous to me.

Now I'm not black, so I cannot speak to how this month makes other races feel, but I think the way it is often celebrated is a bunch of crap. I'm all for celebrating black history and praising individuals who deserve it....but I'm sick of seeing depictions of a bunch of people who white people feel should be recognized. My school has this collage of a bunch of people they consider important to black history....and they don't include Malcolm X. It just doesn't make sense to me and just makes me sick how its still up to the white man to decide, even in a month made to celebrate black history, that we get to pick and choose who is worthy to celebrate.

also, the only reason there is a Black History Month is on the part of how the Fed Gov't mandates school syllabi (sp? .. teaching schedule) and how the initial issue of "racial comradie" was greeted decades ago. If we didn't spend nearly two decades of our adolescent selves inside the confines of a school without remotely learning how or why the struggles of the persecuted black man over 4 centuries now defines our history, we'd all be rascists (even though this one defining word is not wholly accurate nor ever properly used) and the 'Feb as Black History' month wouldn't exist.

There's an old saying about how those who are ignorant to the world at large are by, in large part, both fearful and hesitant toward it (and those that fear something for so long a time come to hate it without realizing it).

I just take this month for what it is: an annual reminder to teach the kid about the who, where, and whys of the Black American throughout the generations. It doesn't harm me none (though it does irk me some of the fact that both this "celebratory" month and affirmative-action were passed within a laundry cycle o' time of each other).