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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Special interest rates from the banks ect, and making excuses for failures should be a part of black history month. And a whole lot more. Lol
History should be taught chronologically from facts of significant events and significant people. Not to scrounge up data on anything you possibly can about a certain race thereby disrupting chronology.
George Washington Carver did something worthwhile by his scientific work elevating the peanut to something that practically everyone eats and that has a multitude of uses. Many owe their livelihood to growing them. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
All that Black History accomplishes is to relegate real history to the paper basket while students bask in the glow of Quanzaa, a holiday created as a joke by a negro prison inmate.
Further, Black History has become, in many institutions, a major for negroes to hide in. The problem is that the only jobs requiring 'Black' Studies is teaching others about Black Studies.
Yup - as long as you also cancel White History Month.
Actually, just make every month Colour Blind Melting Pot Month.
It seems to me blacks WERE pretty much "integrated into American culture" prior to 2009.
I think we really already scrapped BHM. I seem to say this every year, but it remains true every year, but the only thing I see mentioning BHM anymore is people complaining abut BHM. Everybody except the people that don’t like it seem to have moved on from it.
Always can take the whole idea to an extreme by following the same logic.
Introduce
Native American month
Southeast Asian month
Caucasian month
Middle eastern month
Latino month
etc
March is Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and Haitian, and Jewish American. Also Guide dog, Mental Health, Celiac and Zombie awareness month.
Everybody who wants a month gets a month, you just need to fill out some forms. State of Arizona actually has a web form so you can get any span declared whatever you want by the governor. There’s a tech writer’s conference in October that does that every year.
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.For one thing, so much of "black history" is neither.
Jackson is right, but he’ll have a tough time getting it abolished. In fact, I’ll bet at the moment libs are planning an Hispanic history month, a homo history month, a transgender history month, a woman’s history month (can’t believe that hasn’t happened already.) Leftists are just getting started on special months.
Curses...you beat me to it. (lol)
We should also have
Hobbit Month
Orc Month
Dwarf Month
Elf Month
Dragon Month
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They DO already exist and are recognize by the Federal government
March Women’s History Month
http://womenshistorymonth.gov
April Arab American Heritage Month
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-04.html
May Asian Pacific Heritage Month
http://asianpacificheritage.gov
June Gay Pride Month
http://www.loc.gov/lgbt/about.html
Mid-September through Mid-October Hispanic Heritage Month
http://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov
Well, it’s down right racist to choose Feb. for black history month, they should have chosen one of the months that have 57 days.
And still does not put him in the same league with a Thomas Edison or Ben Franklin.
Naw, we need more of these extra special months like terrorist month, illegal immigrant month, gay month, wackadoodle lib month, EBT moocher month, it’s for the children month, village idiot month, lying evil politician month, etc.
“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.”
I concur. There needs to be a blending before the “special” is removed from the mistake of making anything “special”, but the UN- specialization MUST occur. The United States of America is special, not it’s British characters, or its black characters, or indigenous or Hispanic or Chinese or Dutch or etc. ad nauseam.
I’m quite fed up with “diversity”! Be Americans or ship out.
I just realized, I watch less TV in Feb than any other month. but then, I’ve got lots of old movies on DVD to watch!
Now I think of it, I watch NO regular TV at all!
That’s true, but he is the only negro scientist that contributed something to humanity.
The only other scientist I can think of is MaJarion Brooks who invented the condom around 1897 by using the intestine of a lamb.
It stood until it was improved by an Irishman named Jack O’Bannion who removed the intestine from the animal.
LMAO !!!!!!!
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