What I want to know is what things you specifically view as Black Hisitory in America. When did it start and with who? Did it end with the civil rights movement? Just curious how others feel.
2007-02-10 05:16:10 · 11 answers · asked by Reverend C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Black American history started as soon as the first black people arrived on (what is now) America. It didn't end with the civil rights movement, because history is never-ending.
2007-02-10 05:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Rissa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Black History shouldn't even be a topic. Anyone who contributed to important history (positively or negatively) deserves equal recognition in the history books and curriculum. Black History Month is just an excuse to exclude Blacks from history the other eleven months of the year. It is an ongoing process, and no, it didn't end with the Civil Rights Movement. If you're talking about U.S history though, it mainly started with slavery.
2007-02-10 05:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do I feel about it?
Just as I feel that Native Americans and their culture should be observed, so too should African Americans.
It goes back centuries, about four of them, when the first African (probably, though don't quote me on this, from Sierra Leone) was brought to the New World. It was a very gradual process with much suffering involved, among the African Americans. Such a people have come a long way.
Again, I think it's fine.
2007-02-10 05:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't really care about Black History Month. Neither do some of my friends, who are black.
I am just waiting for Asian History Month to come around. We Asians have made a huge controbution in society, yet we feel underrepresented.
2007-02-10 05:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by Erica L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An unfair and unnecessary focus on a singular part of American society. When we see a white history month and an Italian history month... Irish, Chinese, all that - THEN talk about black history. It would be nice, and far less devisive to our society if we could stop hyphenating the word with some ethnic group in front of it and just all be Americans, plain and simple.
2007-02-10 05:22:17 · answer #5 · answered by barefoot_always 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its just another chance for someone to have an excuse not to achieve. To tell me I am the cause of all their problems. Grow a back bone already. If africa is so great, go back there. I can promise you they won't have EO policies to keep you in jobs you don't qualify for. It must be a very interesting feeling to be a black professional and have people wonder if you managed to get where you are because you are just that good or did someone have to give it to you.
2007-02-10 05:29:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing! They need to get over it, years have passed now we have to focus in Asian or Hispanic history in America!
2007-02-10 05:20:23 · answer #7 · answered by Fido 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are blacks in america? I thought they were all people living there.
2007-02-10 05:24:49 · answer #8 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think its stupid....why do we have to have black history month???how many blacks do we learn about in history that are heroes??? we dont have (white, or any other race) history month..I dont see the big deal... let it just be february.
2007-02-10 05:22:17 · answer #9 · answered by kimbo8199 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont care about it at all, same goes for sinco demia, same goes for happy honica and etc., im waiting for white history month but that will never happen
2007-02-10 05:19:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋