AsuraSyn
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AsuraSyn
It's ******** condescending.
As though the entirety of "black history" (and btw isn't "black" not the PC term any more? It's like the United Negro College Fund, where I get labelled a bigot for saying "Negro". I'm like, it's what I'm giving you money for, a*****e! And suddenly I'm the p***k?!) could possibly be summed up in 28 days. Minus weekends of course, so actually 20. Except some schools give you Valentines' off so more like 18.
Yes, 18 days, six hours a day of actual schooling at best so 208 hours, can explain the entire history of a race.
Of course, at the end of each day you have to go sit in the back of the bus, soooo...
It is not the idea about black history that it can be condensed into 28 days. It is about giving people who normally don't get their stories told a chance to do so.
Did you ever stop and think that maybe what makes you come off as a bigot is that you take BHM or any racial month I assume to be an effort to condense their history, combined with the fact that you can't grasp the idea of name history (As is the case with the UNCF)?
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself what's the difference between black history and white? Or hispanic?
What's the difference between you and me? You might have a better tan. Does that mean your history is somehow vastly different from my own?
I agree that history should be taught universally, but limiting it to a single section of time, such as [Insert Racial Group Here] History Month implies that that is the only acceptable time to teach it. I understand there was a need for it when it was started, same as Affirmative Action, but it's purpose is served. It is now an anachronism.
Quite often actually, yes. In my estimation, there is a great deal of difference between black, white, hispanic, asian, etc. history and each other. I have never met you, but I would also take a wager that our histories are quite different from each other as well. Your point with such prattling though is lost to me.
I also do not think it is an implication so much as it is a current fact; by and large, these months are seen as the only acceptable time to discuss such histories. Otherwise, they would be marginalized, as the necessary result would be to re-write alot of US history and, due to the length of the academic year, cut some out entirely. To quote Genie from "Aladdin", "You can guess how often that's happened."