Why do we need a Black History Month?

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Get over it and move on? Special treatment and advantages? There are ZERO advantages to being black in America. If you're referring to Affirmative Action I wouldn't call that an advantage when it effects a mind numbing small number of people. What about the ones it doesn't help? What about the many who can't even get an interview because they have a black sounding name.

And you can't change any of those things by singling out race. You could have a black history day every day of the year and it would not change those things.

The only thing that will change how someone else feels about another person because of their race is if people start taking personal responsibility. If you think you did not get an interview because you have a black sounding name, then go to the employer and talk to them face to face. Show that person that you are someone who should have gotten an interview, explain to them why you are better qualified. They might not have interviewed you because it was a Tuesday and they hate the letter Y on Tuesdays, who knows unless you talk to them.

Calling out Al Sharpton on them would only cause resentment not acceptance.
The old saying holds true, you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
If you want to change others opinions about you then don't come at them threatening lawsuits.

An example often used is two people on the street. Person A ask person B for a ride home and every time Person B says NO, person A hits them. And every day they do the same thing. Will Person B ever even consider helping out Person A ? Instead if Person A ask Person B and when they are told no, they ask why and discuss the matter, they might get a ride home.

The problem I have is when anyone makes assumptions about why something didn't take place without knowing the facts. A very common occurrence is for people that don't get the job, the promotion, to say it was because of my race or sexual preference, when they never even bother to find out why.

 

[Andrew1990]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: zerocool84
Awesome words. He said Black History is American History which it is. Why is it any different? He asked why there's no White or Jewish History month. Black History month is extremely racist.

Well fuck, what do you propose we do? Forget about all the injustices of the past so that we can continue to relive them in the future? Why bother teaching about the holocaust while we're at it? After all, it was so long ago...it never really happened right? Let's just forget about science too because we all know that sky fairies created the world and all its wonders so there's no reason to explore or try to figure these things out.

Well, history is in the past so let's just move on without ever learning from it. It's like dumbfucks have taken control and threw a huge blanket of ignorance over the United States.

So you'd rather continue rubbing it peoples faces? Oh noes, people 150+ years ago where enslaved, so the ancestors of those slave owners still owe the ancestors of the slaves something. This is the thinking of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. There is a group that wants to instatutionalize racism and make sure it doesn't die, to bad those people are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

They don't want to let it go because if they did, people might actually get over it and move on. Blacks would no longer get special treatment and advantages that other groups don't get or just abuse the system or keep blaming others for their lack of motivation to try to succeed in life.

Get over it and move on? Special treatment and advantages? There are ZERO advantages to being black in America. If you're referring to Affirmative Action I wouldn't call that an advantage when it effects a mind numbing small number of people. What about the ones it doesn't help? What about the many who can't even get an interview because they have a black sounding name. If Al Sharpton had never been born are you telling me racial profiling wouldn't exist? Blacks would be able to hail a cab in NYC? They wouldn't be followed around a store simply because they have dark skin? I tell you what, find me one black person who would chose these so called "advantages" you speak on, over them having EQUAL rights. You won't find one. They know that won't happen so they hold on to the crumbs they're thrown (Affirmation Action) But it's not a choice they would prefer if they had an option. They get this slight treatment over other groups, because other groups don't have to deal with a fraction of the shit they do. In the end, black people lose 99/100 times. I'm sure glad I'm white and don't get that kind of special treatment.

God, I would love some of what he is smoking.


I am not sure how it is on the west and east coast as well as the south, but here in the midwest, a black man has an equal chance at getting a decent job as a white man. They also have a better chance at going to the local community college than white kids as the school has to make a quota for colored people.

Like I said, my views are from the midwest, but from what I have seen, black people get equal if not better opportunities as white people.



Also, black history month should not exist in this day of age. Thankfully I graduated and dont have to learn how the blackman made peanut butter for the first time or that they were enslaved for a hundred years.

 

[Woosta]

lol

 

[Mike Gayner]

Like I said, my views are from the midwest, but from what I have seen, black people get equal if not better opportunities as white people.

The statistic disagree with you. You're still living in a very racist nation, where blacks are disadvantaged by almost every measure.

 

[MikeMike]

The statistic disagree with you. You're still living in a very racist nation, where blacks are disadvantaged by almost every measure.

Like what... they can't be president?

oh wait...

 

[SunSamurai]

I always got mildly offended when Black History month came around and you see all these commercials. I felt like the people sponsoring such things were fully trying to keep some sort of separation going, and it didn't/doesn't seem right.

Every race has its history, but distinguishing it from that alone is the purest form of racism.

 

[SunSamurai]

The statistic disagree with you. You're still living in a very racist nation, where blacks are disadvantaged by almost every measure.

Affermative Action would like to smack you upside the head. The biggest threat to any community is themselves, esp communities that get huge opportunity boosts based on NOTHING BUT RACE.