I think you guys are lost about what Black History Month is suppose to mean.
Though, its not really your fault the education system doesn't really do a great job explaining and teaching of the purpose.
Though this time can be a time of reflection for black minorities and yes BLACK people are still a minority in this country, though you may see TONS of us in the music entertainment and in your neighborhood, we are still a minority.
Yes, also Caucasian as a race is decreasing and estimate by 2050 they will be the new minority, but currently in the US white people makes up 2/3rd of the nation.
But back on topic, Black History Month while it can be a time for black people to feel proud of the achievement of its ancestry it's really about EDUCATING the student body about the impact people of color have made in history. When studying history, you rarely hear about the the black people who have contributed to the history of america. Has if we didn't existed or we were SLAVES until Harriet Tubman took 300 of us to Canada, Rosa Parks helped us sit anywhere we want on a bus because she was tired to move to the back and Martin Luther King Jr. freed us and made us have equal rights.
You got Malcolm X, George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglass.
There I just name some of the TOP African Americans you probably Know and ONLY know. (not all of you guys, just saying as a basic education, example)
But do you know we have DONE a lot more? were through out the history but were not in the history books. That's why BHM was created because Congress refused to incorporate us into their history, though we are justify to be there and not to make black people forget all we have done, we have fought to gain national attention to educate the children of our role. But because it has become so mundane and ignore the same old stories are recycle and its ignore as a month of being "proud to be black"
Of course Latina and Asians (two name two) have also contributed and thus were able to fought to gain a month attention as well to teach us what is not naturally in our everyday history books.
I personally say, our skin carries the history your people endure. Some of us are still feeling the prejudice and discriminating effects of what your ancestral may have had endure.
It is what shape us and make us who we are, for how can you know yourself without not learning from your past? But even if you want to ignore this whole bottom statement, just know this
As long as there are people who is willing to remember the struggle of their families(ancestors) of the people of color, the accomplishments made, despite the prejudice and hate that came their way the more this whole "unification" will not happen.
You keep wanting to erase color but why?
I'm proud of my color of my culture and i love it! We shouldn't be trying to erase it and dismiss it and become "one' we should be embracing ALL recognize ALL the history and ALL the culture to where it WILL become a part of who you are despite having no bloodline to its culture. That's true unification in my opinion.
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