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No, you are racist, and what you are saying is racist. It doesn't "sound racist" like a vevuzela sounds like bees, it sounds racist because it is racist.
Now, to get the coddling out of the way, that doesn't mean you're evil, or that you absorbed racist ideas in a vacuum, or any other stuff you may feel like being called out on being racist implies. It just means you are someone who thinks she's not a racist who is, and now you have the opportunity to check yourself.
Ways in which your post is messed up on a general being-a-person-in-the-world level
• Dismissing the right of PoC to talk about their history
• Acting simultaneously that some tidbit you learned about history is relevant despite being hundreds of years old and like there is a time limit on caring about injustice
• In general, telling people how long they are allowed to at all talk about their history and the ways in which what happened to their family in the past affects them now
• Stereotyping PoC as violent
• Suggesting flippantly that Black History Month is about Bringing the White Man Down
• Blacky
• Homophobic bs just for kicks
I'd like to say, after having read through your post, I doubt you seriously mean any of what you wrote, but this is the internet, so I'm assuming you both do mean every word and live somewhere that you honestly have not be taught to know better. So please also don't take offense and tell me about how I don't know you (because that's a given) because I have failed to detect this part or that part was facetious.
1. I never said anything about violence?
2. When I used racist terms such as "blacky" I was saying what I believed a racist person would say.
3. Homophobic bs just for kicks? wtf Im pansexual!
4. I didnt stereptype ANYone.
5. I didnt say anyone couldnt talk about thier history,
6. I didnt say black history month is about bringing the white man down. I only stated that White men have done more for history and society, but we dont have a White History Month. There wouldnt BE a Black History Month without white men.
Again, assuming you're interested in learning from other perspectives and genuinely do not mean the unfortunate implications.
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Im also just going to point THIS out.
I hate how some black americans today are still all kill the whitey! They enslaved us! Lets ******** wit em! xD
You may not have thought "Muahahah, I am going to imply there are a ton of black people who say 'kill whitey' and that anyone who cares about Black History Month is just butthurt over slavery to the extent that they are prejudiced against all white people" but that does not mean you aren't acting on the basis of stereotypes.
What, exactly, do you think are the implications of proclaiming that there should not be a black history month? BHM only exists because the way history is taught is itself white supremacist and glosses over the histories of PoC, saying that this pitiful olive branch
that we will stop ignoring those huge parts and participants of history for a few weeks a year should go away is silencing. You talk about the individuals who were slaves and slave owners in the US pre-abolition being dead as though that means it should not be talked about or addressed. As though anyone still talking about it or about the last effects slavery has had on PoC in this country and the ways in which racism is deeply entrenched is people not being able to get over it. You literally say "Please get over it." as regards slavery.
That is saying people should stop talking about their history.
There is nothing in context to make your use of blacky seem at all a quote or anything short of sincere.
Being pan doesn't mean it's impossible to say things that are dismissive of queer experiences, as demonstrated by your OP pointing out that pants sagging was started by homosexuals with a bemused emote, implying the fuller sentiment "gays started it, and (people who sag) would not want to be considered gay, it's undesirable, isn't that funny!" It's out of nowhere, so even if we don't address whether the fact is a true one, the context frames it.
You implied it, with what put up as reasons Black History Month should not exist. You seem to have trouble understanding that language has a lot of coding to it that allows people to communicate without making every sentence an essay. Rather, you clearly understand it based on how you write, but you have difficulty accepting that others who disagree will read you as well and are under the impression that if you do not type certain words, you can plausibly deny such a message despite saying things that make it crystal clear.
Such as "Whitey didnt hurt blacky in this day and age. No im not saying that what happened wasnt wrong Im just saying why should the white people have to pay for it now?" How the ******** is talking for 20 minutes a day on average (at most) for four weeks about Black History making "white people pay" (unfairly)?
Or that tired gem of "we dont have a White History Month" Yes we do, it's called The Other 11 Months And Half of February. Let's be real here.
And "There wouldnt BE a Black History Month without white men."? As justification for why, aside from the existing white bent to history, we should really really go more out of our way to talk about white people's accomplishments?
If anything, that there would be no need for Black History Month if not for (the actual history of atrocities committed over race by dominant majority of white land-owning men and others who benefitted from their privilege and of history being taught & reframed to exclude both the faults of the majority and achievements of minorities) is something that weighs against your argument that there shouldn't be a time set aside to focus on black history.
I hope that some small amount of what I've written helps you to recognise in yourself what you may be saying that you either do not believe or have not really examined before.
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