Do We Really Need Black History Month? In 2011 America, there’s no need for anything like it.

City Journal ^ | 17 February 2011 | John H. McWhorter

[Celtic Cross]

Yeah, I thought this was a post-racial society.

[Bronzy]

I think when the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton agitators stop agitating, we may realize the progress we have made.

[A_Former_Democrat]

No. It’s white washed anyway (no pun intended). Never a contrary word, always positive, sometimes exaggerated. “History” includes the bad as well as the good.

[jongaltsr]

I demand we have a “Poor Whitty” Month

[rep-always]

NO, WE DON’T NEED A BLACK HISTORY MONTH. JUST LIKE WE DON’T NEED A SPANISH HERITAGE MONTH (OCTOBER).

[MrInvisible]

I demand we have a Czech-History month!

We need to talk about Czech contributions to society and how the Romans, the Vikings, the Austrians, the Germans, the Hungarians, the Russians, etc., have oppressed us.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I have a great idea! Let’s have Black History Month, White History Month, and Asian History Month.

[Colinsky]

Why don’t we just go into a no-hyphenation phase-in and gradually change it to...American History Month.

[Puckster]

Morgan Freeman

[Puckster]

I’m thinking the NAACCP:

N National
A Association
for the
A Advancement
of
C Color
C Challenged
P People

[Puckster]

That is exactly what Morgan Freeman said in the interview with 60 Minutes......”Black history is American History”.

[Texas resident]

Morgan Freeman has gotten wisdom at an old age like a lot of older folks.
Black history month won’t go away.
It keeps the democrat voters happy with their own month to celebrate people of a certain skin color and further segregate them from the American mainstream. If the black leaders ever dropped this, they would lose their power because the last thing they want is for all people to assimilate. They have to keep the race division alive to stay in their positions.
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Baraq Obama and Eric Holder would lose a lot of power if this happened.
I don’t give a rats rear what color you are just as long as you are supportive of the the country that gives you an opportunity to pursue your dreams. Interjecting race and bringing up past sins only sentences you to living in the past and wallowing in someone elses past.
Rotten way to live.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

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[NoLibZone]

Only racists deamdn raced based months, weeks,days, testing, political caucuses, etc.

[Clock King]

Starting 2014, Black History will be a part of American History in general.

[Puckster]

“If the black leaders ever dropped this”

The NAACP and all activist leaders have merely transposed the power of the “share cropping” system in the South after the Civil War, from white to black oppression. Share cropping/company store....keep em in poverty, and afraid of Liberty. Mob rule, not individual integrity.

[Iron Munro]

How can we tell when “their” history month starts and stops?

We are bombarded with their whining racist crap 24/7/365.

[potlatch]

I’ve wondered the same thing. My newspaper has it on the front page featuring a different person every day. I’ve felt like writing and asking, “when is White History month”?

Oh, we also have hispanic history time and features about islam on the front page!!

[FortWorthPatriot]

"I think when the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton agitators stop agitating, we may realize the progress we have made."

I believe had MLK not been murdered, race relations today would be radically different and more in line with MLK's efforts. Race baiters Jackson and Sharpton in, cahoots with the Democrats, have hijacked MLK's dream and have essentially undone all the hard work he had done to achieve a color blind society.

Had he lived I believe we would have probably never seen any gangs, hip-hop, (c)rap, or any other destructive crap we see in the black community today. Jackson and Sharpton have done nothing positive for race relations. All they do is add fuel to the fire when race relations go wrong rather than attempt to calmly sort out the facts and resolve the issue.

Rather than present a mature, common sense, race-neutral approach to problems, they just start spouting off crap, calling whites racists, and demanding reparations. It just sickens me to know that they have, for all intents and purposes, destroyed everything MLK had accomplished, just to make themselves rich and powerful. I would not shed a tear if either one of them were to leave this earth in the near future.