Nebulous said:
Nobody forces you to recognize Black History month. Frankly if you are so anti-black history month then you should have avoided this topic all together.
They had to go through so much. They were slaves. They were treated like animals or sub-human for years, perhaps even by people who are somehow related to you.
Sure a month dedicated to Black History wont make up for what happened, but its a nice gesture and I dont see why anyone would be against it tbh.
You're right, no one forces me to recognize black history month. However I have gone through years of the Alabama public school system, and as we all know, Alabama was a very vicious state when it came to African American rights. I suppose they were sharing in your mentality when all the school heard about was black history, and we learned about the same things over and over every year in February. I guess that's a way of Alabama saying sorry to the people they hurt. However in the midst of all of the supposed-to-be-heart warming videos, and tear inducing speeches by students who had probably never been racially oppressed in their lives, my heart grew cold. I developed a hate for the radicals. This is probably a very unhealthy way to approach the whole matter, as it's pretty harmless, but my schools took this event way too far.
Way too far.
Also, if I had avoided this topic there probably wouldn't be much discussion. Saying I should not have posted because I don't agree with the occasion is like saying someone shouldn't celebrate Christmas because they don't believe in Santa Clause/capitalism or Jesus. Just because I do not get all teary eyed and wave my American flag around during February doesn't mean I'm not entitled to my own opinion. Furthermore, this is the internet. There are many different beliefs on here, and it is closed minded to just tell people they shouldn't have spoken since you don't agree.
I can respect that people want for their history to be known, but there are factors to consider. First of all, what about other cultures and people that have been oppressed in the past? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see a Holocaust of the 1940s month. There's no month for the people back in the medieval ages (I think that was the time period it was in) who were locked away for disagreeing with the Catholic church on matters such as the shape of the earth, and the Egyptian slaves. Second, we're talking about a whole month of celebration here. I would be fine if it was like, a week or something, but four weeks is a tad much.
Just throwing this out there as well, my ancestors did own slaves, but according to what my grandfather told me, we were not harsh towards them. Not everyone treated their slaves badly, but that's not to say that some did, because records show, people whipped slaves and treated them like lifeless creatures.
