What do you think of Black History Month?
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the same thing "they" would think of WHITE HISTORY MONTH
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I'm not black either but, most post i see if it's asking about a black person it starts off as the "N" word instand of the intelligent way of saying African American.That's not to say you can't ask a question about them.It's usually how it's frazed that "GETS" some people.
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I'm a black female in my early 20s and I was in Turkey a few years ago on vacation.  By the time that I traveled to the Eastern part of the country (towards Mount Nemrut) I think that by people's reactions it would be safe to say that most people had not seen many/ any black people before.  No one was rude but people did keep wanting to take pictures which was super weird.  I was completely surprised by the number of black people I saw living in Switzerland and Germany and Italy, but Turkey was not on that list.  \n\nIncidentally, I absolutely loved the time that I spent in Turkey and I keep trying to figure out a way that I can get back-- it was a great place.
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I'm white and I agree. It's just like the black college funds, colleges, television etc... Lord forbid there be a white college fund or white college or a white tv station. I agree with your boyfriend that because of the history looooooooooong ago it puts a damper on things now. But we shouldn't have to suffer for the actions of others. I am proud to be white and I am proud to be an American and I am pround to be from Oklahoma. Shouldn't I be allowed to flaunt it?  And it's also ok for other races to make fun of us in their comic gigs or whatever and say the work "Cracker" referring to us but we aren't allowed to say the word "Nigger" referring to them. I don't think either word should be used. I don't think any word like that  should be used to describe anyone. But I can't say I am upset about the slaves being brought over here. I am glad their offsprings are here. They are my friends. If it weren't for the slaves being brought over we may not have some of the great people we do have. I am disappointed in what happened to alot of them though. I feel for them. Though thank God that thinking is different now.\n\nOMGOsh!!!!!!!!!! \nI wrote out that so horrible "N" word to make a point and it got substituted with symbles but the word CRACKER is still there. See my point people. If we are supposed to be equal lets be equal.
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Yup, I'm very sick of it! I'm sorry people have assumed you are racist just due to your background.  What I hate is when people get away with being "counter-racist" because they are a "person of color".  That really gets to me!\n\nSomeone brought up having a white history month, Personally I'm for getting rid of Black History month.  For one I feel that all history should be studied all year long, not separated or each race should have it's own history month (which in my mind would be pointless and segregating).\n\nSomeone else mentioned, that Blacks have been taught "you are the enemy".  That's nonsense, and if it's not just as many whites have been taught "blacks are the enemy"  and why does it always come back to back and white?  Any race can and does experiance racism!
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I think there are definite double standards. As far as the N- word, I think that a lot of black people use it unthinkingly; the meaning has sort of morphed for some groups so that it isn't always derogatory, but I think that we need to realize that in order for us to not want any other group of people to use the word, we should stop. As far as BET, Miss Black America, etc., Whites don't need to specifically label anything as white because it's a given that most of TV are majority white anyway. As a black person it annoys me to no end that blacks are largely ignored in media (except for the token black person you usually see) so in order for us to see ourselves represented, networks like BET make sense. Lastly, I'm sure Mayor Nagin, meant well, but his statement was racist. I feel in order for us to truly be a country of tolerance and acceptance, we need to associate and mingle as much as possible.\n\nGAgirl- Wow, an entire month devoted to black history? That's a lot!Considering that whites have the other 11 months all sewn up, that's the very least that could be offered for a group that is nearly always ignored and underrepresented. I actually feel that black history should be done away with and our contributions and accomplishments should be celebrated year round, just like white culture is.
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Yet another whitewashed fast-forwarded version of black history. \n\nBlack people as a group are not 'angry'.  Some are angry; some don't care. My God...  And at this point I'd like to point out that we do not all mindlessly follow the lead of anyone put in front as some of you have stated. Don't beleive everything you read in the media ok?  Nobody whips black people up into a frenzy. Personally I don't know anyone who pays any attentiont to Al Sharpton.  Some of you are so insensitive and out of touch, it's ridiculous. \n\nTopics like this make me angry. People are just talking all out of their a_sses. How can people outside of a community speak for what goes on inside of it? I don't tell white people that black people have not discriminated against them. Why tell us that racism against us is a thing of the past?  You don't even know what being black in this country is or even means...\n\nAlso the black experience in this country is above and beyond slavery. What did you think?  Slavery ended. Slave and slave master just skipped off into the damned sunset, hand in hand singing  'Shiny Happy People' ? \n\nGive me a break.\nDisparities and negative atttudes about race do exist. For instance, black people are less likely to be hired. Did you know that? If not I don't know why because there have been several studies on the topic. It's the truth. I have a friend who was discouraged by the receptionist of a company from putting her more 'black-sounding' name on the application because the manager 'would be less likely to hire her'.   What do you think of this? \nEven black latinos in this country catch hell. For merely looking black. They are worse off than their whiter-looking counterparts.  They are subjected to the same economic and social treatment as us. The sad thing is some of them just got here and had no idea things were this f****ed up!   \nThis is a direct reflection of your so-called colorblind society. Because if black looking individuals who have nothing to do with the black experience can claim the same amount of injustice that black people supposedly whine about what does that really say to you about the progress of this country?  \n\nLet's end it here.  \nYou just don't get it; I will not even try to go into it with you. \n\nCan all of our problems be blamed on racism.  Yes (historically speaking) and no. The black community is at a crossroads. I won't get into it but we cannot let go of the past because the past still affects them.  However despite the institutionalized racism kept in place for decades black folks have got to come to terms with it.  We must get out of the victim role loop. No matter what has happened we must push forward.  We have no choice . The governement doesn't care. In truth it never did. \n\nAnd you say we should be thanking white people for enslaving the African to begin with? You deserve a good hard slap for that.\n\nThis country has completely f****d over an entire race of people.  My grandmother was begat out of rape--a product of her mother's white captors. The same is true for many blacks although racist propaganda will tell you different. Why else do you think we come in so many different hues?  I don't care if you're grandaddy was Thomas Jefferson, Washington or Roosevelt--who would be proud to claim that kind of legacy? \nThe denial of education, of voting rights, owning land, the rights of a black woman to her own body, of a black man to protect her and his family...  What the hell does THAT tell you?  Black people were never meant to progress as a people in this country; We were never supposed to succeed.\n\nSuppose you'll tell me to go back to Africa if I don't like this country?  Well, Africa is not my home. The African lost his cultural identity and had his native tongue and religion beat out of him once he was shipped here. \n\n...and I'm not going any damned where. My
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I think Black people are underappreciated and under-respected. Overgeneralized and misunderstood.  Each and every Black person is different from the next, so if anyone really wants to know about Black people, just learn in a respectful way.
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u are very correct and unfortunatly the way our new age political correct laws go whites are discriminatd against to a point. i mean there is st. patties day. but there is no white history month. a month to show what whites have had a possitive impact on the world. every race should have a right to celebrate the people of their race who have had a possitive impact on the world from all walks of life. i am muslim and i am white. is there a time when i can celebrate being a muslim with out being called a terrorist. or a traitor to the arien race. definatly not here in america. america needs government reform. we need to unify. this is a must if we hope to become more productive and quit crying over what happened way back when. education makes a big difference. as a white person i am  not prod of slavory how ever it was the white man who enslaved them and it was white men who died setting them free this counts for nothing these days.
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Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in the month of February. Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week in 1926 because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Later on in 1976, as the nation reached its bicentennial, the week was expanded into an entire month. However, February has much more than Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance in black American history. For example:\n\nFebruary 23, 1868: W.E.B. DuBois, important civil rights leader and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born. \nFebruary 3, 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. \nFebruary 25, 1870: The first black U.S. Senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, took his oath of office. \nFebruary 12, 1909: The NAACP was founded by a group of concerned black, jewish and white citizens in New York City. \nFebruary 1, 1960: In what would become a civil-rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, North Carolina, college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. \nFebruary 21, 1965: Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims. \nHistory books had barely started covering black history when the tradition of Black History Month was started. At that point, most representation of blacks in history books was only in reference to the low social position they held, with the exception of George Washington Carver. Black History Month can also be referred to as African-American History Month, or African Heritage Month.\n\nIn the United Kingdom (UK), Black History Month is celebrated in the month of October. The official guide to Black History Month in the UK[1] is published by Sugar Media, Ltd., who produce 100,000 copies nationwide.
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I understand that U.S. history has tended to overlook and distill the history of African descendants down to a few lines about slavery, and Black History month is an attempt to rectify this. \n\nHowever, I don't celebrate Black History month (the shortest month of the year...). My history cannot be summed up in 28 days of rambling on about peanut butter and slavery, and the parading of hip hop stars, and actors across my TV screen, because it's insulting and minimizes our time here in America. \n\n"African-American" (and don't get me started on that moniker) history is much more than that. It's AMERICAN history, world history. It's human history. If you want your month...pick a long, warm one :-). August sounds nice.
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You have made so many sweeping, unsupported statements that it's hard to know where to start.  I won't give you the full-on lecture because I suppose I think you're unlikely to be edified by it.  Suffice it to say that in my 21 years of education, I studied considerably more white history, white case studies, stories about white people, etc.  It never occurred to me that I should be studying less of that stuff.  It did occur to me that I would benefit from more materials regarding people of color.  Since those things weren't readily offered in most of the classrooms in which I sat, I availed myself of the many books available in the libraries and the bookstores and augmented my own education with the portion I was afraid I was missing.  Did it ever occur to you to do something similar?  Instead of learning less history that touches on black subjects, maybe the cure for your ills is to read more offline books and round out your own education.  Just a thought from someone with "black skin pigmentation."\n\nBy the way, I would love to hear you name even 10 black television celebrities in support of your preposterous claim that we "are now dominant on TV."  I'll bet you can't do it without stretching.
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This is a message for everybody, I have a question for you!\n\nHip hop is totally now about money, image, and all things negative. f'*** the tracks that people have mentioned earlier, yeah they are cool and represent 'true hip hop' but I have a question for you. I am a collector of nineties hip hop and the best of it tends to deal with black issues, i.e black on black crime. Black prisoners doing time for crimes they didn't commit, due to racial profiling and 'wrongplace- wrongtime syndrome' Drugs and prostitution rife in black areas, theories of drugs injected into black areas by non-blacks, the inability to be able to hail a taxi as a black man for fear of getting attacked, the list goes on...Thats hip hop, there was a message, a viewpoint, a meaning, and most of all it dealt with black issues.\n\nRemember de la soul? Around the era of ostentatious rappers eric b and rakim and big daddy kane three 18 year old mc's wrote 'me myself and I' and the message was, 'you are black but you don't have to play up to the stereotype', you don't have to drive flashy cars, have big muscles, impressive dance moves, big jewellry, just be yourself, you are unique. Now take into account what I have just said and ask yourself where is this hip hop? Would the music industry allow black people to talk about controversial issues, telling black people that they don't have to be 'pimps' or 'gangsters' or just general stereotypes? Would they allow 50 cent to say f*** cars, guns, jewellry, get an education instead black people, be yourself and be proud of who you are! Would you dance to that? Heard of brand nubian or K.M.D? didn't think so!
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I teach kindergarten and created a black history unit.  You can find it at the link below.
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I never even knew that black people fought on the confederate side.  Why is there a black history month and not a Native American History month?  Native Americans were the first choice for slaves but European disease wiped out most of them and so the Europeans turned to Africa.  So I think I need a Native American Month.  And while we are at it, German American Month and Korean American Month for my bestfriend.  And I have friends from India so they need their own month too.  Who should I contact?
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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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Some people have forgotten. (Well that is just my opinion) But from my expereince people just wait for the Veterans Day holiday to come for the huge sales in all the big department stores. That is not what the holiday is about. The hoilday is about remembering those who have lost their lives in World War II and other veterens. You are also supposed to remember those who are still in war and are fighting for our freedom and our country. I can not speak for others but it looks like most people have forgotten about the veterans and Veterans Day. But I know that I have not.