The N Word

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I still don't understand why blacks get their own TV channel

BET - Black Entertainment Television

And their own month. Look, I get it, the African American civil rights movement has come a long way in the past 100 years. But are organizations like the NAACP necessary anymore?

 

And what about a European or Immigrant history month? To celebrate the memory of the millions of people who came to this country with nothing, and then built it up into a modern society.

Their own month? Nobody owns months last time I checked. Complaining about the existence of a group of people who choose to recognize a month is retarded. No one is making you recognize black history month. Just like no one makes you recognize national Hispanic Heritage month in September, Masturbation month in May, etc. There are months for virtually everything.

 

In fact the only reason we have things in America like BET, HBCUs, NAACP, etc. is because they were formed in a time when blacks were institutionally excluded from the mainstream versions of these services. So the black community had to pool their own resources to create their own services. Black history month is meant to compensate for the neglect of African Americans in American History. Even today, the US History textbooks tell a very one-sided story from the perspective of its writers and historians who generally happen to be descendants of white European Immigrants from the 1800s themselves. Blacks have been in America since the early 1600s.

 

 

It's best to read about things before bitching about them.

Edited February 9, 2013 by canttakemyid