Celebrate BLACK History Month.

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History of BLACK History Month

BLACK History Month wouldn’t have been possible without Negro History Week’s creation in the United States in 1926. Famous historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History proclaimed the second week of February to be observed as Negro History Week. Since the inception of this event, the main focus was to encourage the teaching of the history of BLACK Americans in educational institutes, particularly at the primary level. The departments of education of Delaware, North Carolina, and West Virginia were very cooperative. The overall reception was lukewarm, but Woodson considered it a success and “one of the most fortunate steps ever taken by the Association.” In February 1969, the idea for BLACK History Month was promoted by BLACK students and educators at Kent State University, followed by the first celebration of BLACK History Month on campus and local surroundings one year later. Fast forward six years and BLACK History Month was widely being celebrated across the country, and not only in schools, colleges, and community centers. In 1976, President Gerald Ford praised BLACK History Month, urging all citizens to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

 

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. He is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series

 

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate to succeed Thurgood Marshall, and is the second African American to serve on the Court.

 

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Zora Neale Hurston
1891 - 1960

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

 

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Black Lives Matter
2013 - Present

Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.

 

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"Oh, I almost forgot," I say, reaching into my pocket. "I wrote you a poem." I hand her the slip of paper. "Here." I feel sick and broken, tortured, really on the brink.

"Oh Patrick." She smiles. "How sweet."

"Well, you know," I say, looking down shyly.

Bethany takes the slip of paper and unfolds it.

"Read it," I urge enthusiastically.

She looks it over quizzically, puzzled, squinting, then she turns the page over to see if there's anything on the back. Something in her understands it's short and she looks back at the words written, scrawled in red, on the front of the page.

"It's like haiku, you know?" I say. "Read it. Go on."

She clears her throat and hesitantly begins reading, slowly, stopping often. "The poor cupcakeer on the wall. Look at him." She pauses and squints again at the paper, then hesitantly resumes. "Look at the poor cupcakeer. Look at the poor cupcakeer... on... the...wall." She stops again, faltering, looks at me, confused, then back at the paper.

"Go on," I say, looking around for a waiter. "Finish it."

She clears her throat and staring steadily at the paper tries to read the rest of it in a voice below a whisper. "Fuck him... Fuck the cupcakeer on the wall."She falters again, then reads the last sentence, sighing. "Black man...is...de...debil?"

 

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Langston Hughes
1902 - 1967

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance

 

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate to succeed Thurgood Marshall, and is the second African American to serve on the Court.

Worst racist on the Supreme Court Ever!

 

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Hahahahahahahahah got you spamming your own shit thread.

 

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Let's condense it:

1. African blacks got enslaved by... each other.
2. European whites bought some blacks from the blacks who enslaved their own kind. Not a good deal, but hey, caveat emptor.
3. Whites oppressed blacks for 400 years, until whites freed blacks. That's right -- you motherfuckers didn't free yourselves.
4. Blacks now keep themselves down while trying to pick a fight with whitey, who had spent centuries handling the shit out of 'em.

Condensed further:

Culturally, blacks are moronic and self-destructive.

Now that that's out of the way, let's enjoy the rest of the month.

 

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Point 1 is moot and does not excuse point 2 or 3. Those in power have always leveraged their advantage to subdue and enslave the less powerful.

At least you acknowledge whites oppressed blacks for 400 years.

As for point 4 - I have no interest in tarring an entire racial subset with the same brush, otherwise I must apply the same rationale to my own subset, which would make you and I birds of a feather simply because we're both white.

You know reality is far more subtle and complex than these absurd stereotypes and characterisations. I also know you're hell too intelligent to seriously believe half the nonsense you espouse.

 

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Point 1 is moot and does not excuse point 2 or 3.

The hell it is, and the hell it doesn't. Non-whites have practiced slavery of each other for millennia, and still do it today; see: Saudi Arabia and China. Point 1 knocks the legs out from under the "blame Whitey" trope. We were the best at that game, but we're hardly the inventors of it, let alone the only ones to have practiced it. It's still going on right now, and it ain't us doin' it now.

Those in power have always leveraged their advantage to subdue and enslave the less powerful.

Those "in power", however, is not a fixed description across all times and places.

At least you acknowledge whites oppressed blacks for 400 years.

Sure do. We're the best at that game.

You know reality is far more subtle and complex than these absurd stereotypes and characterisations.

I know that "these absurd stereotypes and characterisations" aren't invented in Hollywood writers' rooms. They arise by being true more often than untrue, over long periods of time, across culture-spanning geographical ranges.

Let me reiterate that point:

Stereotypes do not become stereotypes without being true.

I also know you're hell too intelligent to seriously believe half the nonsense you espouse.

Apparently, you're not nearly intelligent enough to break with social conditioning, look at it objectively, and admit that -- as socially unpalatable as it may be -- it isn't nonsense.

 

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^ There's the bitch.

Small dick. Can't dance. Bland food. Secret pedo. Failed at life even with White Privilege.

"Stereotypes do not become stereotypes without being true."

Fucking SELF OWN.