When is white history month?

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nemss said:
I have no problems whatsoever with celebrating Black History Month. But, I do have a problem with the racial double standard.

If I released "Caucasian" Magazine tomorrow, it would be labeled racist.

Why is that?
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if you called it something else, like "Men's Health", nobody would bat an eye.
 
Satchwar said:
how come the three threads i've been in about black people have this as an ad

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geez.
 
Bossun said:
Creating a black history month is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

It's not gonna help fighting racism in anyway...
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its not about fighting racism. there isnt much a month is gonna do about that. its to inform of the accomplishments of african americans throughout history that gets passed over by everyone.
 
Dude quoted in OP is a jackass. But as Morgan Freeman said in another post there shouldn't be a black history month either. Humanity as a whole needs to move past race and just recognize people as human beings. And that works both ways.
 
of course their should be a black history month. their should also be a Hispanic history month, gay history month, native American history month and women history month.

white people can complain and complain but their complaints simply do not matter.
 
coriander said:
of course their should be a black history month. their should also be a Hispanic history month, gay history month, native American history month and women history month.

white people can complain and complain but their complaints simply do not matter.
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See? You guys wanted this. Don't complain.
 
coriander said:
of course their should be a black history month. their should also be a Hispanic history month, gay history month, native American history month and women history month.

white people can complain and complain but their complaints simply do not matter.
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National Hispanic Heritage Month is the period from September 15 to October 15

the month of May was permanently designated as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

Gay and Lesbian Pride Month is celebrated each year for the month of June.

Native American month is Nov.

Women's history month is March.
 
Slayven said:
National Hispanic Heritage Month is the period from September 15 to October 15

the month of May was permanently designated as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

Gay and Lesbian Pride Month is celebrated each year for the month of June.

Native American month is Nov.
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none of those get as much awareness as black history. and in my humble opinion they should.
 
Parallax said:
its not about fighting racism. there isnt much a month is gonna do about that. its to inform of the accomplishments of african americans throughout history that gets passed over by everyone.
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Okay but it's still dumb. In that case there should be a month for every culture, race and gender if we follow that train of thought.
 
Slayven said:
National Hispanic Heritage Month is the period from September 15 to October 15

the month of May was permanently designated as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

Gay and Lesbian Pride Month is celebrated each year for the month of June.

Native American month is Nov.

Women's history month is March.
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He wasn't saying that they didn't exist, he was saying that they should exist. Just like African American History Month should exist. (And Pride month and LGBT History month are two distinct months). ETA: :lol That's not what he was saying. I gave him a bit too much credit.

Bossun said:
Okay but it's still dumb. In that case there should be a month for every culture, race and gender if we follow that train of thought.
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In America? There is. Except I'm not aware of any "man" month, "white" month, or "straight history" month. Because those demographics aren't exactly under-represented in high school text books.
 
Mammoth Jones said:
The fact is, the vast overwhelming majority of people in America was unaware of black history and there's nothing wrong with a month to bring it up.
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My main problem with it is only talking or learning about it in just one month. I remember all my schools put all these decorations and pictures of MLK, Frederick Douglas and so on and just have maybe one event or a few trivial facts given. Then after February, it all gets taken down, like when schools take down Christmas decorations once the holidays done with and forgotten.

Black history should be explored into and talk about anytime, all the time. Not half-heartily brought up for a month.
 
Mr. B Natural said:
Really? REALLY? The Negro Leagues in the grand scheme of things is very little significance in American History. Sorry. Not everyone needs to know every example about segregation. People in America are taught a SHIT TON about the civil war and about abolitionism and about slavery and the fine folks that fought against it for hundreds of years.
You might as well say that kids aren't taught enough about our Independence because they can't recall everyone that signed the Constitution. That's bullshit and you know it. Americans are taught, to a fault, their own history, non-stop from K to 12. We do NOT ignore black history AT ALL. Not even a little bit. It is a HUGE portion of our history and a huge portion of what is taught in schools. Do they teach everything? No, of course not.

And, guess what, the Negro Leagues is AMERICAN history, not african american history. To only teach one side of that story would be missing out on half of that subject-matters significance. You didn't confront a single point Morgan Freeman was trying to make.
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No, we just gloss over it. I think that's the main point of this month.
 
RukusProvider said:
Why do we need a "history month" for any race?
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Well in America, I grew up hearing very often how blacks did nothing to contribute to society and should have been happy that whites brought them over from Africa as slaves, "because now they get to live in the best country in the world". And in school all of black contributions to American life began and ended with the guy who came up with 100 and 1 uses for the peanut. (That, while being one of his minor accomplishments, ironically remains what he's best known for.) So essentially Benjamin Bannaker, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver, plus slavery, Civil Rights and Martin Luther King were the entirety of black history in America. And before that, everyone was living in straw huts over in Africa, waiting to be discovered.

So, the reason why we needed a Negro History Week was because people ignored black people and black history. If you don't celebrate your past, it will be forgotten. No one's going to forget the history of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and so on. There are libraries full of the events, great and small that have occurred over the ages in Europe. They're discussed at great length and people are tested on how much they've learned. But you still have people who have no idea of the contributions of blacks to American society and to the world at large. So we have a month called Black History month, so people will be reminded that there is such a thing, and can complain accordingly about the lack of white history.
 
you guys know that there is a pacific islander heritage month, right?



also, i hate month-long holidays. i don't care what it is about. can't they just choose one day? there are 365 of them. there are only 12 months.
 
Lionheart1337 said:
There's also Irish and Polish ones IIRC.
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from wikipedia:

American Heart Month • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month • Black History Month • Cancer Control Month • Child Abuse Prevention Month • Confederate History Month • Gay and Lesbian Pride Month • Jewish American Heritage Month • National Breast Cancer Awareness Month • National Disability Employment Awareness Month • National Hispanic Heritage Month • National Nutrition Month • Ramadan • Steelmark Month • Women’s History Month



I’m giving the big FU to all of it. I am now founding “I Hate Month-Long Holidays” Year — and it’ll be the whole year long every year until the rest of time. How do you like that, month-long holidays????

It’s also amazing to me that you only care about preventing child abuse one month out of the year, but the rest of the time its a-okay (unless you get caught)!
 
When I went to Junior High in 1986 in our small population of 4000 northern Manitoba Canada town our English class had to read Underground to Canada. It told the story of black slaves escaping from a harsh plantation and trying to get over the border to Canada where they would be free.

I remember the book being pretty awesome.

We also read one about a couple of Roman kids trying to get a exiled Roman senator back into Rome from England. I wish I knew the title of that one.
 
mac said:
Why don't white people have their own Tyler Perry movies?
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Adam Sandler

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beaten. this is like a yearly tradition though. It's like the sub-holiday. Complaining about black history month month. Also Budweiser's black history Kings and Queens calendar posters are always awesome.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commemorative_months

Here's a list

February
Black History Month

March
Women's History Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Greek-American Heritage Month

April
Arab-American Heritage Month
Tartan (Scottish-American) Heritage Month

May
South Asian Heritage Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month

June
Caribbean American Heritage Month
Gay/Lesbian Pride Month

July
French-American Heritage Month

September
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15)
German-American Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)

October
Black History Month (UK)
Filipino American History Month
LGBT History Month
Italian-American Heritage Month

November
National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month
 
God damnit. Leave Tyler Perry alone. His TV shows may suck and his movies may be inconsistent, but he's one of the very few reasons black actors and actresses can even hope to find serious work.
 
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