10 things my White friends BETTER NOT ruin during Black History Month

Chicago Now ^ | 2-1-2016 | Nikki Lynette

[GOPsterinMA]

GD RIGHT!!!

[jughandle]

Is this a joke? Because if we ever talked about colored people like this...

[mistfree]

51 homicides in Jan. Twice last years rate. Now there’s something you can celebrate this month! Oh that’s right, I forgot, black on black murder doesn’t count.......... hmmm

[MrB]

I’m surprised there are not more complaints about BHM being the shortest month of the year.

[ottbmare]

Does anyone know what she’s talking about?

[Zman516]

"Black History Month is a time for everyone to celebrate the contributions that African Americans have made to the world."

Let's see... Detroit, St.Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, Birmingham, Selma...etc.

[Zman516]

Barn Owl?

[Zman516]

Barn Owl?

[Jim from C-Town]

I should have said as many as 100 million. Estimates vary between 10, 20 and as many as 100 million Natives in America died. Most certainly it is tens of millions as it is estimated as many as 95% of the indigenous population died from diseases.

‘
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus has proven difficult to establish. Scholars rely on archaeological data and written records from settlers from the Old World. Most scholars writing at the end of the 19th century estimated the pre-Columbian population as low as 10 million; by the end of the 20th century most scholars gravitate to a middle estimate of around 50 million, with some historians arguing for 100 million or more.[1] Contact with the New World led to the European colonization of the Americas, in which millions of immigrants from the Old World eventually settled in the New World.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

‘...Within just a few generations, the continents of the Americas were virtually emptied of their native inhabitants – some academics estimate that approximately 20 million people may have died in the years following the European invasion – up to 95% of the population of the Americas....’

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html

[Glad2bnuts]

100,000,000 Dead Indians in just a few years, that is probably why the oil wells are refilling on this continent, all that carbon based life breaking down into carbon type fuel.......... Sarcasm off now.......

[Fred Nerks]

[driftless2]

I guess we're talking different things. I meant the basic native populations north of the Rio Grande. And I'd be real careful about quoting Jared Diamond. I read his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel." The guy is a leftist wacko.

[a fool in paradise]

3. "Urban Tie Caps." Hey... That is not an urban tie cap. It's a wave cap. Otherwise known as a cheap ass durag.

[a fool in paradise]

4. Rap challenges. Every few months a new rap challenge pops up, such as the #GeekedUpChallenge. Â If you have actual rap skills, then go forth and make my people proud, White buddy. But if you don't... Chill. Let's see no more of this foolishness until after February 28th.

I still have not determined if rap began with talking county songs (and hillbilly eefin') like Smoke That Cigarette or girls in the schoolyard doing jump rope rhymes to keep time.

Here's some eefin' (it's like beatboxing..., more underway t 1:45 in this song than elsewhere)

(1951) - Swamp Root

[a fool in paradise]

I'll say this: February is the shortest month of the year. That means you only need to shut the hell up for 28 days.

29 days this month, what a DUmmy.

[Jim from C-Town]

More like 150 years or more.

Columbus reached the New World in 1492. By the time he left for home on his return voyage his crews had already infected the natives with some illnesses. Within a couple generations it is believed that much of both continents where infected.

Due to the death of the indigenous population, the African slave trade really started in order to get labor for Caribbean and South American plantations.

The exploration and settlement of North America didn't really begin in earnest until after 1620 and really until after 1650.

[Jim from C-Town]

More like a century or so. Between 60 to 80 million people died in six years during World War II.

Around a third of Europe died during the Black Death Plague in the fourteenth century. That is around 50-70 million people. This type of pandemic has happened in other parts of the World.

The Black Death started in Central Asia and traveled to India & China it moved via trade through Constantinople into Europe. They estimate that a minimum 75 million died of the Black Death and maybe as many as 200 million died by the end of the pandemic.

These types of pandemics are not unheard of. The fact hat the native populations of America where so isolated for so many millennia from the rest of the World explains the unprecedented death rate of diseases like Small Pox and Typhus.

With a death rate of around 90-95% a population of 100 million or more could be all but eliminated in a very short period of time.

Could you imagine the social disruption, displacement, fear and insanity? It would be akin to “The Stand” in proportion.

[Slings and Arrows]

[a fool in paradise]

That’s racist!

[ladyjane]

Why is a whole month needed for black history?

Slow readers who don't read cursive.