Why is there no White History Month?

[mugs]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: brianmanahan
Is there a Mexican history month? I've never heard of one, but they've done a lot of good things too.

Like they lost the mexican american war? Oh, burn! James K. Polk in the hizzouse!

:laugh:

 

[irishScott]

Black people get their own month because they were slaves to white people, and even after freed were badly oppressed by said white people. White people have almost always been on top in some form or other throughout history.

So this is the month where all of the MLK specials come on PBS, and people look back and remember. Come March the only black people on the screens will be Obama and the players of various College Basketball teams.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: RichardE
Because we did not grow up thinking we are a victim of society and therefore need months/day's/special privelages in order to compete and make us feel special about something that we keep saying doesn't matter.

Actually, they celebrate White History Month on WET - White Entertainment Television, in conjunction with the NAAWP.

yeah if i had a channel called WET you damn sure i would watch..then get mad becasue it is not what i thought it would be..

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: swtethan
wheres the Asian history month?

http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/april/math_activities.html

 

[Lonyo]

The only thing i saw in the UK when it was black history month was adverts for it on TV, nothing actually constructive, just adverts.
And we learnt about things like slavery etc in school anyway, some of the colonisation of the US etc.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: RichardE
Because we did not grow up thinking we are a victim of society and therefore need months/day's/special privelages in order to compete and make us feel special about something that we keep saying doesn't matter.

Actually, they celebrate White History Month on WET - White Entertainment Television, in conjunction with the NAAWP.

Now now, don't you go promoting that racist NAAWP or Ima have to report you to the NAACP, you betta be carefull there!

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: HotChic
With all the efforts being made right now to rewrite history, it would just be self-defeating.

In what way is history being rewritten?

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: RichardE
Because we did not grow up thinking we are a victim of society and therefore need months/day's/special privelages in order to compete and make us feel special about something that we keep saying doesn't matter.

Sounds like you are the perfect person to learn more history, black or otherwise. The origins of black history month go back to 40 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1965. An act which had to be passed because it was still common practice to deny black people the ability to vote.

I guess the creators of the month were looking for "special privileges" like equality.

 

[Linflas]

More important is why this poor dead horse seems to get beaten every year when February rolls around?

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: JS80
March - January

pretty much

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: swtethan
wheres the Asian history month?

Right here.
It is May.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Troll. Move along.

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: Linflas
More important is why this poor dead horse seems to get beaten every year when February rolls around?

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
there may actually be one or two questions dumber than this one, can anybody think of any?

is a frog's ass water tight?

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: brianmanahan
Is there a Mexican history month? I've never heard of one, but they've done a lot of good things too.

Like they lost the mexican american war? Oh, burn! James K. Polk in the hizzouse!

Expect to see 100's of thousands of illegal alien Mexican immigrants protesting in the streets for a Mexican History Month in a city near you soon.

 

[bobdelt]

How is celebrating one race's heritage, and not another's equality? Maybe feb should be race month! Hmm... maybe that would be counter productive - how about nothing then.

Does anyone actually celebrate black history month - besides al sharpton? I have a couple black friends, and i highly the doubt that the month of Feb really changes their standard of living or quality of life.

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: bobdelt
How is celebrating one race's heritage, and not another's equality? Maybe feb should be race month! Hmm... maybe that would be counter productive - how about nothing then.

Does anyone actually celebrate black history month - besides al sharpton? I have a couple black friends, and i highly the doubt that the month of Feb really changes their standard of living or quality of life.

It's not a celebration, so no one celebrates it. It's purpose was to teach everyone that black people did more in American history than pick cotton and eat watermelon. The creator was a high school history teacher, so he knew first hand how black people were completely ignored in the history books. This was only about 10 years after "Birth of a Nation" had come out which was supposed to tell the story of American history and ended up portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroes, blacks as inferior, and had most of the black people acted by white people in blackface. Edit: in all fairness the blackface was because they had rules against a black man coming into contact with a white woman.

Carter G Woodson wanted a more honest portrayal of black people, their role in American history and what they had accomplished. The same way that there were white heroes in the history books, he wanted the blacks of note to also be recognized. It is psychologically damaging for a kid to grow up being told that no one who looks like him has accomplished anything. Putting some positive role models out there, while a small step, was progress.

That's where the equality comes in.