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It’s Time to Scrap Black History Month
Townhall.com ^ | February 28, 2015 | Carl Jackson

Posted on 02/28/2015 4:57:44 AM PST by Kaslin

As we draw near the end of Black History Month one thing is for certain, it's done more to suppress American History than tell her story.

According to history.com the origins of Black History Month begins in 1915 when Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the then Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), which is an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements of blacks and other peoples of African descent. In 1926, the group sponsored a national Negro History week, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Republicans Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

In the decades following, mayors across the country began issuing annual proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. As a result of the renewed Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses. Finally, in 1976 Republican President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month and called upon Americans to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history."

Today in America Black History Month has become little more than a tool for liberal academics and the racial grievance industry to perpetuate revisionist history that suits their agenda to transform America. It has produced an entitlement mentality amongst blacks, perpetual victimhood in place of accomplishment in black communities, and racial strife directed at white Christian Republicans. Additionally, Black History Month has conceived an ire amongst illegal aliens and legal immigrant minorities alike who believe they deserve just as much prominence on America's calendar as blacks. In other words, it's causing more division than celebration of unity.

Consider some of America's forgotten history. William Ellison, a former slave turned brutal slave owner helped finance the Confederate Army. We're familiar with Republican President Abraham Lincoln who signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves, but did you know Hiram Rhodes Revels was America's first black senator (1870-1871) during Reconstruction? Blanche Bruce also served in the United States Senate from 1875-1881. There were twenty one black congressman that served in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction as well. Why aren't we taught about these civil rights heroes in our schools? I suspect it's because they were all Republican! William Ellison being the exception.

It gets better! Despite what you've heard, the first civil rights legislation was passed in 1866 by the GOP. Not in 1964! In 1870 the Republican Congress passed and ratified the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks and former slaves the right to vote. In 1871, the Republican Congress passed the "Anti-KKK Act" to abolish the Democrats terrorist arm known as the Ku Klux Klan that was created to stop blacks and "nigger loving" whites, known as Republicans, from voting in the south.

In 1957 Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's civil rights bill was opposed by the likes of Democrat Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In Anne Coulter's book "Mugged" she describes how LBJ stripped the 1957 bill of its enforcement provisions. Thank God Eisenhower introduced a stronger bill in 1960. Conveniently, Democrats changed their position on racism due to political expediency. Lyndon B. Johnson adopted Dwight Eisenhower's ideas on civil rights as his own, and in 1964 the Republican Congress helped him pass the signature legislation known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A.D. King, Father to Dr. Alveda King and little brother to MLK Jr. is another forgotten hero who worked tirelessly in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a juggernaut in his own right. Sadly, he was murdered just one year after his brother.

My point is this: Black History is American History, and it should be treated as such throughout the entire year wherever it's relevant. America, with all of its flaws has amazing heroes of all nationalities whose stories deserve to be told. Immigrants don't flock here because they believe we're a racist society. They flock here because they know that if they work hard they can succeed despite their ethnicity. In our bitterness, blacks have forgotten that we still live in the greatest, kindest nation ever known to man.

If race relations in America are going to get better, if blacks are going to choose forgiveness over blame, if so called modern day "civil rights leaders" are sincere about being reconciled to their fellow man, if blacks are ever going to be integrated into American culture, it seems to me a good place to start the healing process would be to eradicate Black History Month.


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1 posted on 02/28/2015 4:57:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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Who was it who said the closest thing to eternal life is a government program?


2 posted on 02/28/2015 5:17:32 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Kaslin

If the true “BLACK HISTORY” were ever taught in our schools, there wouldn’t be any BLACK democrat. But, like everything else, our history is being re-written every day of the week, including “BLACK HISTORY”.


3 posted on 02/28/2015 5:18:06 AM PST by gingerbread
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To: Kaslin

I’m with CL Bryant on this one.

Attacking black history month directly is a route to sure fire failure. Instead we should use it as an opportunity to educate about true American heroes like James Armistead and Salem Poor. He also suggests that whites should seize our rightful place in black history with guys like George Whitefield and Calvin Coolidge. Eventually the black will fade and we can morph it into American History month.


4 posted on 02/28/2015 5:20:07 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Kaslin

Black History Month
Gay Pride Month
Women’s History Month
Latino History Month
Pacific Islander Month

So much ‘diversity’. So much liberal special interests promotion.


5 posted on 02/28/2015 5:21:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Kaslin

It’s White Guilt Month and it just drags up past injustices and gives them as an excuse for the self-inflicted pathologies.


6 posted on 02/28/2015 5:21:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s really Black History MONTHS. January and February. Stories about African Americans bombard the TV airwaves 24-7.


7 posted on 02/28/2015 5:21:49 AM PST by Cry if I Wanna (.)
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To: I want the USA back

Every day is White Guilt Month.

And yet Christmas is referred to as ‘the unnamed holiday season’.


8 posted on 02/28/2015 5:22:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Kaslin

Remember, March is Lithuanian/Latvian History month.
Oops, no it’s not...


9 posted on 02/28/2015 5:24:40 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

“Stories about African Americans bombard the TV airwaves 24-7”

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Another triple A rated appoinment. (AAA = Affrimative Action Anus)

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10 posted on 02/28/2015 5:27:51 AM PST by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Kaslin

Well, us honkey’s have 12 months a year, there’s “Kill Honkey” month, “Die Honkey Die” month, “The Honkey Man be keepin’ us down” month on and on...


11 posted on 02/28/2015 5:32:50 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Kaslin

Add this to Black History Month:
330,000 WHITE UNION military knowingly left their families and went to their DEATHS during the Civil War; they gave up their lives to free the BLACK AMERICAN SLAVES, they FOLLOWED the directives and emancipation orders of their government, a government THEY ELECTED. I have never heard a Progressive African-American, or a White Progressive, ever ACKNOWLEDGE, much less “thank” these men for their sacrifices, nor do they recognize the 260,000 White Union military who were wounded and/or grievously disabled; nor the widows; nor the children; nor the families of the military who also suffered TO FREE THE BLACK SLAVES.


12 posted on 02/28/2015 5:39:21 AM PST by BilLies (This is Balck History Month. ...Seen any praise for the White Union Dead who made it possible?)
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To: Kaslin

it has morphed into “Black Preference and Pandering Month” and we have 12 of them every year.


13 posted on 02/28/2015 5:39:24 AM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: "fundamentally transformed" is a euphemism for "wrecked beyond repair.")
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To: Iron Munro

Yes, the American people truly believe to pandering to whatever is popular.


14 posted on 02/28/2015 5:46:56 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s been subverted by “Black thugs who are history” news flashes.


15 posted on 02/28/2015 5:47:57 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kaslin

Surprisingly, I haven’t even heard or seen anything about BHM this year. I totally forgot that it was BHM.


16 posted on 02/28/2015 5:53:47 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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To: tet68
Don't keep us in suspense. Which month is Lithuanian/Latvian History Month?
17 posted on 02/28/2015 5:58:01 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

You remember, it comes right after Rumanian/Armenian
day, and right before Anglo/Saxon minute. A moment
of silence if you please.


18 posted on 02/28/2015 5:59:35 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kaslin

Frederick Douglass complains in his autobiography of not knowing when his birthday was. It’s now listed as February 17 but I think what he did was arbitrarily pick a date, and picked the day halfway between Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday.


19 posted on 02/28/2015 6:00:16 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

Frederick Douglass complains in his autobiography of not knowing when his birthday was. It’s now listed as February 17 but I think what he did was arbitrarily pick a date, and picked the day halfway between Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday.


20 posted on 02/28/2015 6:00:16 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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