xThe Goblin Queenx
How can anyone say we don't need black history month.
Perhaps you've heard of Emmit Till?
Considering your lack of respect probably not.
Emmit Till was a 14 year old boy. In 1955 on August 28th, he was kidnapped and and beaten with a pistol, then his attackers tied him up and shot him in the head. After he was dead they tied him to a 70 pound fan and threw him in the river.
They attackers were arrested, and then found not guilty.
In 2001 Raynard Johnson a 17 year old black male as hung from a tree for whistling at a white girl.
There are 154 known cases of black woman lynchings.
And now you're thinking that was in the past we've learned.
In 2009 58 hate crimes took place. One third of them were targeted at black people.
My mother is of mixed races, when she was pregnant with me she used to pray, that I wouldn't look like her so I would never have to feel the pain she did.
Can you imagine praying your child doesn't look like you? Because you've suffered because of you're skin colour?
How can you look at all the people who have suffered and say that we don't need a month to remember them.
They deserve a whole damn year.
You should be thinking of all the people who died, all the people who where beaten, all the people who cried over a lost child because someone took them away because they where black.
I am disgusted that you can think of these people and not care about them.
Just disgusted.
this is gonna sound racist towards black people... but frankly i don't care.
what happened t to the native americans that were treated a lot worse than the things i've heard that black people were done and what not.
what about ellis island? where ALL people imigrating went to and people of all races were forced into slums and pretty much one on top of another?
what about the japanese/asian americans in world war 2? when america, american born or not, were forced into camps and away from their homes and such?
what about the disabled people that get spat on on a daily basis?
i mean seriously, not just black people have suffered. EVERYONE has in this country. whites, blacks, asians, native americans, etc... but yet blacks are the ones that have the month dedicated to them and their history.
reguardless... i honestly think there should be a month called Unity month or something in the US. where EVERYONE'S history is talked about and recognized basically saying YEAH this is where we were, and this is where we are now. and also this is where we hope to be.
not just giving one 'race' in the US the power to be dicks for a goddamn month because its "revenge" due to what their families went through. its not the current's generation fight of the PAST to fight. its been fought, won and is now over.
yeah those people should be honored, but others as well, not just black people. they are no better or no worse than whites, asians, etc.