Can't wait for the controversy here: Black History Month

[RonSwanson]

Do african-americans not feel insulted by this notion? I mean, one month is dedicated to the effects of MLK, Malcolm X and all other Civil Rights Movements, so what happens to the other 11 months? Are we supposed to not recognize the rest? It just seems ridiculous to me. How can we express equality when this ish is still present? I dunno know, if I was african-american I'd feel disrespected.

Serious discussion only please

[Budadiiii]

"The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week."

[L.Kizzle]

Do african-americans not feel insulted by this notion? I mean, one month is dedicated to the effects of MLK, Malcolm X and all other Civil Rights Movements, so what happens to the other 11 months? Are we supposed to not recognize the rest? It just seems ridiculous to me. How can we express equality when this ish is still present? I dunno know, if I was african-american I'd feel disrespected.

Serious discussion only please

And with so many entertainment events going on in the month, who even remembers Black History Month.

NFL Super Bowl
Grammy Awards
Valentines Day
NBA All-Star Weekend
NHL All-Star Weekend
Daytona 500
Academy Awards

[RonSwanson]

And with so many entertainment events going on in the month, who even remembers Black History Month.

NFL Super Bowl
Grammy Awards
NBA All-Star Weekend
NHL All-Star Weekend
Daytona 500
Academy Awards

What does that have to with anything?

[BasedTom]

And with so many entertainment events going on in the month, who even remembers Black History Month.

NFL Super Bowl
Grammy Awards
NBA All-Star Weekend
NHL All-Star Weekend
Daytona 500
Academy Awards

The Super Bowl is honestly the only one that matters to most people.

Yeah people enjoy all star weekends, but it isn't like you can go up to a random old guy waiting for the bus and say "who's getting that ASG MVP?!"

award shows are dumb unless somebody like kanye does something stupid. Nobody's going to think "Well there was no way I was going to watch American Sniper, but now that it has this award, I gotz to see it"

nascar is irrelevant

[BasedTom]

a month is ridiculous anyway when Jesus only gets like 3 days out of the year

[RonSwanson]

a month is ridiculous anyway when Jesus only gets like 3 days out of the year

Don't you mean like 40 + Christmas?

[L.Kizzle]

What does that have to with anything?

Hey lets talk about deflate-gate ...
Hey lets talk about Kanye and Beck ...
Hey lets talk about (also, forgot to add Valentines day ...)
Hey lets talk about whatever happens at All-Star Weekend this week
Next week, who got snubbed out an Oscar

Month is over.

[L.Kizzle]

a month is ridiculous anyway when Jesus only gets like 3 days out of the year

Don't you mean like everyday?

[KNOW1EDGE]

I don't get it.

Whites have no "White history month" and before you say "every month is white history month" it's not, there is no white history month.

Companies like Nike (and subsequently Adidas copied them) do BHM shoes every year and a line of clothing. Nike hosts a "Sneakerball" in Portland celebrating BHM.

We got BET, NAACP, United Negro College fund etc etc
America bends over backwards for blacks like no other race.

I don't get what your beef is? Black history month isn't good enough? I'm seriously confused

[Patrick Chewing]

Reparations!

[BasedTom]

seriously, if there's a black history month, then there should be "Year of the Germans" "Year of the Italians" "Year of the Chinese" "Year of the Turks" "Year of the Ethiopians" "Year of the Russians" etc

[bdreason]

Shortest month of the year. When will the oppression end?

[L.Kizzle]

I don't get it.

Whites have no "White history month" and before you say "every month is white history month" it's not, there is no white history month.

Companies like Nike (and subsequently Adidas copied them) do BHM shoes every year and a line of clothing. Nike hosts a "Sneakerball" in Portland celebrating BHM.

We got BET, NAACP, United Negro College fund etc etc
America bends over backwards for blacks like no other race.

I don't get what your beef is? Black history month isn't good enough? I'm seriously confused

White made the country the way it is now, like it or not. If whites weren't acting a dam fool towards people who don't look like them, there would be on BET, NAACP, ect.

Also, every month is White History Month. Sorry, it just is. I was in grade school just a few years ago and the only time we learned about Blacks was during February. Other than that, we're learning about 15th Centenary English settlers, Pilgrims and Edgar Alan Poe.

And the reason there was a NAACP was because people of color (Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, ects) were not getting recognized.

BET is just black programing. People always bring up why is there a BET. Have never seen a "Why is there a Telumundo?" People like to see and hear people that look like them.

[Patrick Chewing]

White made the country the way it is now, like it or not. If whites weren't acting a dam fool towards people who don't look like them, there would be on BET, NAACP, ect.

Also, every month is White History Month. Sorry, it just is. I was in grade school just a few years ago and the only time we learned about Blacks was during February. Other than that, we're learning about 15th Centenary English settlers, Pilgrims and Edgar Alan Poe.

And the reason there was a NAACP was because people of color (Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, ects) were not getting recognized.

BET is just black programing. People always bring up why is there a BET. Have never seen a "Why is there a Telumundo?" People like to see and hear people that look like them.

White Europeans built America and you wonder why you're learning about white settlers, and authors? I wonder how many Anglo-Saxon months they have in Africa??

And this is coming from a Latino who thinks it's ridiculous that a certain race needs a month in the year to be recognized for. Let's focus more on unification than separation based on months that alienate us.