Black History Month is here! GET PUMPED!

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I do not get why blacks are singled out.

themajormayor

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="BranKetra"] :| Read a history book.BranKetra

I'm not black, but I'm very interested in commemorating this and wondering how I can learn more.

Can anyone help? How do immerse myself in blackness for a month?

Can anyone help? How do immerse myself in blackness for a month?

Menalque2

Why don't white people get there own month? I want October.

HyperWarlock

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Why don't white people get there own month? I want October.

Capitan_Kid

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Why don't white people get there own month? I want October.

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] You got the other eleven months. Let the brothas have oneCapitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]Thats not true. History is history regardless of race. The other 11 months aren't exclusive to white people.

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Can anyone help?

Menalque2

honestly, this is awesome

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]Thats not true. History is history regardless of race. The other 11 months aren't exclusive to white people.

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I'm not black, but I'm very interested in commemorating this and wondering how I can learn more.

Can anyone help? How do immerse myself in blackness for a month?

Menalque2

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Of course not but whats wrong with having one month to show your pride in your ethnicity? Noone is stopping you from picking a month, day, or week to show the accomplishments your people have made.Capitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]It really irritates me when people take pride in their race. Why does it matter if the person is black or white? does it somehow make you feel better if when someone how's successful just happens to have the same colour skin as you?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]It really irritates me when people take pride in their race. Why does it matter if the person is black or white? does it somehow make you feel better if when someone how's successful just happens to have the same colour skin as you?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]It really irritates me when people take pride in their race. Why does it matter if the person is black or white? does it somehow make you feel better if when someone how's successful just happens to have the same colour skin as you?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Its awesome for me to know the things african americans contributed to society. Theres nothing wrong with taking pride in the good things your people have done throughout. Everyones proud of something they have or can do. Being irritated by that is kinda sillyCapitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]That didn't answer my question? Why does it matter if they are black or white? Shouldn't it be what you achieve that matters, not what other people do? Why do you feel the need to separate history, can't we just look at humanity as a whole?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Why does it matter? Because thats the race I am. Its who I identify with. They are my people. Capitan_Kid

Because I don't agree with separating people based on their race. I believe that there is no such thing as black accomplishments or white ones. When Neil Armstrong went to the moon did he say "one giant leap for white people"?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]I don't give a **** about my race. Why do you?

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]I don't give a **** about my race. Why do you?

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] I dont know. I just do. Its my people. How could i not care? How can you not care about what is essentially apart of yourself?Capitan_Kid

its hard to understand if youre not blackCapitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]Thats not true. History is history regardless of race. The other 11 months aren't exclusive to white people.

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]its hard to understand if youre not blackHerbieCucumber

[QUOTE="HerbieCucumber"][QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]its hard to understand if youre not blackCapitan_Kid

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Also why isn't there a White Entertainment Television :cry:

JML897

White Entertainment Television = ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS

And I disagree on schools teaching less about African Americans if there wasn't a black history month.

Schools have a set curriculum and a short amount of time to teach it

They mainly focus on the big events of America and some of AA accomplishments.

It's just like World History

No time to teach everything about the greeks so you're just going to have to research on your own.

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Of course not but whats wrong with having one month to show your pride in your ethnicity? Noone is stopping you from picking a month, day, or week to show the accomplishments your people have made.Capitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="toast_burner"]It really irritates me when people take pride in their race. Why does it matter if the person is black or white? does it somehow make you feel better if when someone how's successful just happens to have the same colour skin as you?

SaintWalrus

And of course a race was fighting for their rights to be as equal as another race of people.

But what it all comes down to is just a battle of Good Vs Evil.

A group of people fighting against tyranny. This is something every single human being can relate to, regardless of race.

And about people saying "Oh, it's a time to learn more about frequently forgotten history."

If you've waited 336 days to educate yourself on some history, then you my friend need to read more.

The best thing to do to commemorate Black History Month, if you agree with that sort of thing, is to be the best possible citizen you can

Love and cherish everything you have.

You will be doing a service to those who have suffered by living life to the fullest and being yourself.

I believe it was the great Zora Neale Hurston who said

"But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

Why don't they just incorporate black history into history classes?

Why don't they just incorporate black history into history classes?

Conno08

a white kid in my class 4-5 years ago was talking about how black history month is one of the most pointless things in the world and how it doesn't deserve even the shortest month, all the black kids got mad. was funny.themagicbum9720

Tell him that white people do not deserve history unless maybe they share a month with criminal history month.

I am white and this is what I would say, I am glad that we have a month to remember the struggles of a persecuted group and what they contributed to our society.

[QUOTE="themagicbum9720"]a white kid in my class 4-5 years ago was talking about how black history month is one of the most pointless things in the world and how it doesn't deserve even the shortest month, all the black kids got mad. was funny.Banjo_Kongfooie

Tell him that white people do not deserve history unless maybe they share a month with criminal history month.

I am white and this is what I would say, I am glad that we have a month to remember the struggles of a persecuted group and what they contributed to our society.

White people do have a history month

It's called Irish-American history month

Asian history month, Hispanic History month, Jewish History month, Black history month, Native american history month etc etc

All these heritage months just prove that all races go through struggle, So why do we designate specific months

I don't know where to begin! Should I date a black woman, make a new secret hand shake with an African American male, or should I just reminisce on how far the race has come as a whole?

Obligatory white history month rant.

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[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] I dont know. I just do. Its my people. How could i not care? How can you not care about what is essentially apart of yourself?Capitan_Kid

i thought this might bring you to your senses

and if there was a white history month it would be considered raciest....such a double standard its stupid...when will it end...

No, it is not black history month, they had Martin Luther King day. Well whatever, I never notice anyways.

Where's my white british homosexual history month?