Do you believe there should be a black history month?

Answer 1

Black history month was absolutely necessary when our society, through both conscious and unconscius racism, excluded black people from "our" official history. . . for example, in high school and college textbooks.

Black leaders have been highly successful in bringing our attention to this national deficit. Black history month was one of the strategies, and I think it worked well. Black history units are included in most school curricula, and Black history month provides a convenient and useful site for these units.

As we mature as a nation, Black history month will come to seem as obsolete as 'white history month' would be. We have had black heads of the joint chiefs, black national security advisors and secretaries of state. This year we will have a black presidential candidate who is not a protest or issue candidate, and he might well prevail in both the primaries and the general election.

I think the time has come to begin to phase out black history as a history of 'difference' and instead thoroughly to integrate black people and their achievements and predicaments into a more unified American history.

This would be a post-post-modernist development. I hope we are ready to move in that direction.

Answer 2

Of course not. As a teacher of American History i talk about the contributions of Asian-Americans, Black-Americans, Native-Americans, Hispanic-Americans all the time. I do not do any more or less during February than I do at any other time. In fact being a white teacher, black history month is a no-win situation.

1. If I DON'T make a big deal about it being black history month, the black students demand to know why not.

2. If I then DO talk a lot about black history the same students ask "What do YOU know about black history, you aren't black."

Of course the assumption is that if you are BORN black then somehow you are magically endowed with an innate knowledge of black history. Trust me that isn't true. Blacks know no more about their history they are black than whites know about their history simply because they are white.

But Black History month is definiately discriminitory and serves a special interest for blacks. It is ironic that for a group of people that have claimed for 200 years that all they want is equality, in reality EQUALITY is the last thing blacks want.

Answer 3

I don't know. The idea is nice, but shouldn't you learn about ALL history in your American history classes? I don't think there should be one month for black history, or any other culture/race's history because it should all be taught year round and integrated with each other. I think the people who came up with the idea had good intentions, but it just separated it further from the rest.

Answer 4

There are so many months honoring things that the distinction is meaningless.
The list includes an almost infinite number, ranging from Women's History Month, Polish American History Month, Native American History month, Asian Pacific History Month and tons more.

Answer 5

February is Black History Month in the USA.

Answer 6

No. I think 'black' history should be taught integrated into American history. There is no Polish or Chinese or Cuban history month. I'm all for diversity, but if a person or event is history worthy, it should be history worthy year round.

Answer 7

to me things like this breed racism.. the fact that there is a black history month alone states that we are looking at races as non equals and regardless of the reason that would be the deffinition of racist... all races should be equal in all aspects including history

Answer 8

no,should we have a white history month.its been getting worse latley like that comedian saying the n-word and everone talking about it,if a black person was to say something like that its ok. i think thats bull.just tell me why we have a black history month and not a white history month

Answer 9

Yes. Black history month helps African-Americans as well as all Americans understand the roots and the role of African-American citizens in our history and culture, much of which has traditionally been left out of mainstream historical accounts. It affords all of us the the chance to experience and embrace a long neglected part of our own rich history and culture.

Answer 10

i'm undecided what black background month has to do with republicans, or social gathering politics oftentimes. i assume it particularly is simply by fact we are all meant to be racists which you ask republicans specifically and if it is so i detect that rather prejudice of you. to answer your question as somebody, i think of black background month is in simple terms yet another insult to black human beings. So is guess, NAACP, and the rest based specifically on race. interior the occasion of black background month, the actuality that there's no longer "white background month" in simple terms approximately insinuates that white accomplishments are so predicted an universal that there is not any ought to rejoice it, yet while it is composed of black human beings attaining issues, i assume that's a brilliant deal. Its as though to assert that it is so out of the generic for a black guy or woman to do something traditionally important, that it bears greater advantageous interest and party. My total existence i've got been advised that the only distinction between black human beings and white human beings is the colour of our dermis. if it is so, "black background month" makes approximately as lots experience as "green eyed background month", or "blond hair background month". yet we have no of that, in simple terms "black background month" and in case you inquire from me this is disgusting. It insinuates an excellent bigger distinction between races than actual visual charm. while is the international going to attain that issues like Black background month purely stand to divide human beings? by using the way, MLK day is approximately celebrating a brilliant guy who befell to be black. In different words it became his strikes that made him important, no longer his blackness. extensive distinction.