It’s Time to Scrap Black History Month

Townhall.com ^ | February 28, 2015 | Carl Jackson

[Iron Munro]

The Real LBJ

[Carry me back]

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

[HomerBohn]

The establishment of a Black History MONTH was idiotic and should be an embarrassment to American Negroes who possess functioning brains .

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.

[JudyinCanada]

Yup - as long as you also cancel White History Month.

Actually, just make every month Colour Blind Melting Pot Month.

[JennysCool]

if blacks are ever going to be integrated into American culture

It seems to me blacks WERE pretty much "integrated into American culture" prior to 2009.

[discostu]

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.

[School of Rational Thought]

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

[discostu]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 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.

For one thing, so much of "black history" is neither.

[driftless2]

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.

[driftless2]

Curses...you beat me to it. (lol)

[glyptol]

We should also have

Hobbit Month
Orc Month
Dwarf Month
Elf Month
Dragon Month

Sauron four year term limit

[a fool in paradise]

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

[Graybeard58]

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.

[Graybeard58]

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.

And still does not put him in the same league with a Thomas Edison or Ben Franklin.

[bgill]

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.

[Blue Collar Christian]

“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.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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!

[HomerBohn]

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.

[Zeneta]

LMAO !!!!!!!