who are some people tha should be acknowledge for Black History Month? Why?
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ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIED FOR OUR RIGHTS let remember the ones that died long before any civil rights person. Because we all forget the ones that where slaves and went through it all. MLK was a good man but he wasn't a slave. Let pay respect to the ones that where slaves too, they carried all the burden of slavery. We like to remember the few that help end it, why not the tens of millions that where. Surley their souls cry out that they died from the oppressoins of slavery, just to have this generation to enjoy the benfits of their struggles then not even acknowledge or remember them. What a disrepect!
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Don't forget Nelson Mandela.  It shows that the person takes the law seriously and respects authority, and at the same time wants to demonstrate an injustice in our society.  It forces people to question whether they think their laws are fair since innocent people are suffering.  There is an underlying assumption that people are basically good and your cause is fundamentally just.
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Think about it for a while. Then try to name a famous person you  CAN stand. It's gonna be a tough one... (I'm talking about contemporary 'icons')
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Malcolm X. The exact quote is, "We are Africans, and we happen to be in America. We are not Americans." Click the link below to read the entire speech.\n\nGood luck on your project.
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but blacks don't know where they came from in Africa and have no culture from there or language from there not even a recipe from there so how could they begin to know names that had meaning ?all the blacks here know is what the whites have taught them.that's why you use to hear names like Jefferson and Lincoln and what ever .These newer names that some have adopted are so different ,but you usually can tell if the person wearing the name is black.Although some say these names are a hold back and they may be,I understand the need   the people have to have something their own.That's why Hip-Hop and music is so important to them because they want to feel as if they are a part of some thing their own.I like my name and I can't think of a more Euro name than Regina,but hey my parents were here and all they knew of Africa was not enough to give me any thing else.
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i know that he was a black man that did alot of good for his black people and gave all the rest of us a holiday!!!
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It's pretentious, I agree. But they do have a point. The idea of a white history month, use of the N word by white people, WET...all would probably be met with a lot of opposition and decried as racist. And there are probably quite a few places where a white person would be severely harmed or killed for using the N word. Granting special privileges to any given group is counterprodutive, in terms of equality. Not that I have anything against black history month or BET.
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Actually there are plenty of white history months: Italian American Heritage Month, Irish American Heritage Month, German American Heritage month... you get the drift. The reason it's called "Black History Month" is because black people have been so far removed from their ancestory in Africa that most don't know what region they're from. If they knew, then you would see Ghanaian History Month, Nigerian History Month, etc. But since they most don't know, it's easier to lump it all together in one month. But whites have just as many months to honor their heritage as blacks do. Whites are just lucky enough to know about their specific heritage to be able to honor each one specifically. And if they want to promote it as much as Black history month, then those people need to get off their azzes and do it instead of whining. Blacks made their month a big deal through self-promotion. let the Italians, Irish, Germans, Swedish, etc. do the same thing.\n\n--\n\n\nBTW... I'm guessing this "Shameeka" isn't a real black female (the name is so corny and stereotypical). More likely it's some wise-azz guy trying to start shyt. And he's apparently succeeded...
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It was initially proposed as Black History week, by Doctor Carter G. Woodson in 1926. and placed in February in honor of the birthdays of two men who helped influnce the shaping of black history: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.  It was later expanded to include the whole month.
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You can't forget about Miles Davis, and Etta James. Also check out this site I found:\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/theblues/songsartists/songsbioalpha.html
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Here's a better question? Why is there a black histoy month?  Why not just study it with the rest of history for the whole year? Or let's give everyone else a history month too and not discuss history outside of those monthes.\n\nAlso, no one mentionedthis but it's a well known fact that Lincoln did freed slaves as a last resort.  It's like like the guy did it willingly, he did it beacuse he needed more men in the army and slaves are either going to desert, attack owners, or just have no morale otherwise, so he freed them.  Done deal.
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Hey dude calm down this is 2006. All the slaves are dead. And who the hell are you to throw off your beliefs on someone else? Get a life.  I am black as hell and I don't ever think about what they did 100 years ago. Not even during Black History month.
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My church did the play "A Lesson Before Dying".This was also televised on tv.You could also pick black historians who made a difference in society.eg;Madame C.J. Walker,George Washington Caver,Eli Whitney,and Garrette A. Morgan.Read up on the accomplishments that they succeeded in life.Go to a school teacher supply store and you'll find alot of informations to help you.The public library is another source of information.
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I think others may have taken a different inference from your question as if you asked "SHOULD we have black history month?" and that's not what you asked.\n\nI'm a caucasian american and I guess it's always felt funny to me that there was a need for a black history month. Why wasn't Black history included with the rest of world history? I mean now that the seperation of the races had become an antiquated notion, though still regionally practiced, couldn't we have more flushed out history books, one's that dealt with the developing history of all races?\n\nOkay well that hasn't happened, except more recent history does include more people of color. And therefore to cover the history that hasn't been covered, they add this special month of learning about things we may not learn at home or in another course at school. I for one am glad for the experience.\n\nI really couldn't say how it makes anyone else feel.\n\nThough I will say in a strange way sometimes it seems to emphasize the continued seperation between the races. We are all one humanity and the seperation is really idiotic, still it lingers. Is part of the problem that making a point of being proud of your skin color (no matter which group is doing it), tends to highlight the superficial differences between us.\nI think it would be better if the focus was on cultural history instead of skin color history.
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Being as we live in a "white" dominant country (yeah right, especially in the Southwest) we celebrate great "White"  Americans every month.  I also don't think a Black History Month, or Hispanic Heritage Month is Politically correct either.  If this country is to be fair and equal, then put a stop to it.  Let's celebrate those specific days, like Cinco de Mayo, MLK Day, Chinese New Year, etc. equally!\n\nLove to you all!
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hm. check out gwendolyn brooks, she was the first black to win a pullitzer. "the bean eaters" (1960) was full of poems about racial injustice.\n\nrita dove comes to mind as well.\n\ntry langston hughes "theme for english b" poem . good stuff!!
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Well 1st of all I do question why are we even using the term African-American on Blacks that weren't even born in Africa.\n\nJesse Peterson who is Black himself said it best when he said "I am not an African-American, I am an American."\n\nAs far as Black president I would like to see either Alan Keyes or Condoleeza Rice as President.\n\nAlthough heck if we had to go for someone in Hollywood then definetly Denzel Washington.\n\nOk I disagree with the fact Morgan Freeman did support Kerry for President in 2004 but I gotta say I am imprssed though with a lot of his intellegence and respectful behavior though :)\n\nFor instance I liked the points he raised on how wrong it is to confine the History of Blacks to just one Month because Black History is part of American History.\n\nIt's like yeah I prefer to look at figures from History Black and White not based on what Skin Color they had but based upon who they were and what they did.\n\nGeorge Washington Carver is a great inspiration to a lot of people for example and seriously his accomplishments by the grace of God are more important than Skin color.\n\nI would like to see a Black person become President someday but I don't want such a person to be elected based on Skin color, I want the person elected because he/she is the person for the job.\n\nFor instance in my State Michigan a Black man named Keith Butler is running but I decided that I was going to check things on different Republicans running for U.S. Senate to see exactly who I should support such as where candidates stood on the issues.\n\nIt appears that yes Keith Butler and I do see eye to eye on enough issues for me to decide im supporting him for U.S. Senate.