When is white history month?

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A friend from Bham told me when its Black history week, you do not sit at the back of the bus unless you have a deathwish or you're black, oh the irony. I bet they dont even know who Rosa Park is (Not refering to black people but the chavvy gob-shites who also were involved in the riots because 'Da guvament is bein bad innit, n dem fools took away my EMA money innit '

Sorry, slight OT but yeah, i can read the future.. bannings are coming here, i can feel it in my balls
 
Huh? What's the one drop rule? Ugh, if only we had a month in which this kind of stuff was meant to be learned and remembered!

If you have a black ancestor you are black. So people like Mariah Carey or Rashida Jones are considered black even though they wouldn't be in other countries.
 
Huh? What's the one drop rule? Ugh, if only we had a month in which this kind of stuff was meant to be learned and remembered!

Basically the idea that Black is the dominant gene therefore anyone with any amount of Black genes is considered Black. At least that's my knowledge of it.
 
The "one-drop rule" is obviously racist bullshit, why should it have any bearing on society today?

Woah, taking me too seriously there my man. Of course it shouldn't.


Basically the idea that Black is the dominant gene therefore anyone with any amount of Black genes is considered Black. At least that's my knowledge of it.

Considering that it was made with racist ideals in mind, I highly doubt that they thought black genes were dominant. It was more about poisoning the purity of whiteness
 
If you have a black ancestor you are black. So people like Mariah Carey or Rashida Jones are considered black even though they wouldn't be in other countries.

Basically the idea that Black is the dominant gene therefore anyone with any amount of Black genes is considered Black. At least that's my knowledge of it.

We obviously need a wikipedia month.

i was being facetious as that's partly why we have a black history month.
 
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, when they drag out the corpse of Kristi Yamaguchi and parade her around.
 
So, do you want to put everything in one pot, and leave it up to them to divide it up, and decide what's fair? Frankly I don't trust them with white history, let alone black history. I think in the future, some day, maybe after people stop seriously asking why we don't have a white history month, they could think about whether we need a black history month. But that time isn't now. I think we need black history month more than ever, and I think more than ever, since so many are removed from the reasons for it, and the struggle to get it, we need to remember why we have it.

Like I said before, I know how screwed up things are in terms of the teaching of history, but as long we keep the label, the more that people aren't going to want to to treat it as normal history due to that label. That includes people who don't even have racist views and actually have an interest.

The differences that the man-made concept of race created has had a significant, unfair influence on the way that certain people live to the point in which it definitely shouldn't be ignored. However, as long as we keep on classifying people based on something that isn't real, the more that people won't accept the differences, since those labels will make things seem more different than they actually are.
 
It's segregating society in an attempt to integrate society.

Deep.

This is a complete misuse of the word (and concept) of "segregation".

Because its saying black history isnt part of the regular american curriculum.

Actually, it's a reminder that Black History wasn't considered part of regular American History. I think people are trying to forget this (and pretend that racism never existed).
 
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Because its saying black history isnt part of the regular american curriculum.

That's the practical reality. BHM is a remedy to the already existing issue, not the cause of it. And BHM doesn't imply that black history is separate, that's just an inference, made in error. And it could be corrected quite easily by any teacher. It leaves a small window for people looking for an excuse not to care, because it's "black history" and they're not black, which to me seems based on ignorance, not an inherent issue with the descriptor creating unecessary divisions. I wonder if they would do the same if it was called 'Black Americans in History Month'.

Maybe our culture is at the point where people don't want to learn something if they don't have to, so now they have to camouflage or normalize it, because the word black gives them an excuse to turn their ears off.
 
It's segregating society in an attempt to integrate society.

Deep.

Because its saying black history isnt part of the regular american curriculum.

Lets take another example. I live in Hawaii and in Hawaiian history we learn about the Hawaiian monarchy and how Hawaii became state, but we don't lean about how Hawaii has illegally overtaken by a bunch of wealthy land owning white guys with the help of the US Army (bayonet constitution) that forced cession. Obviously this sort of knowledge doesn't make everyone happy, but the fact that it is left out of the history classes is absolutely infuriating and when people find out on their own it makes things far worse.
 
Actually, it's a reminder that Black History wasn't considered part of regular American History. I think people are trying to forget this (and pretend that racism never existed).

No people aren't trying to forget.

How can people forget when the label "Black history" itself causes racism and "Black History" to not be considered as being American History to this day? This in itself is the reason why people want the label(s) to be gone.
 
No people aren't trying to forget.

How can people forget when the label "Black history" itself causes racism and "Black History" to not be considered as being American History to this day? This in itself is the reason why people want the label(s) to be gone.

That's bullshit.

Maybe I'm just out of touch with the way youth of today think. Didn't think I was THAT out of touch. Maybe these are just the opinions of a relative few.


Do PuertoRicans get a day? Were like a cumbucket of races so we should have some months.


according to google:
October 15 – November 15 is Puerto Rican Heritage Month
 
No people aren't trying to forget.

How can people forget when the label "Black history" itself causes racism and "Black History" to not be considered as being American History to this day? This in itself is the reason why people want the label(s) to be gone.

I still don't see any compelling arguments for why the label "Black history" causes racism. It's not pointing out that the two versions of history should be separate, it's pointing out that they're separate.
 
I still don't see any compelling arguments for why the label "Black history" causes racism. It's not pointing out that the two versions of history should be separate, it's pointing out that they're separate.
The argument is that Black history isn't separate; that in the grand scheme of things it's just another integral part of American history.
 
The argument is that Black history isn't separate; that in the grand scheme of things it's just another integral part of American history.

And yet the vast majority of history taught in schools is ethnocentrically biased towards white people. Guess in this case it's not separate but not equal?
 
The argument is that Black history isn't separate; that in the grand scheme of things it's just another integral part of American history.
If there were a way to ensure that it was incorporated into American history other than BHM then we wouldn't need it, but good luck with that.
 
No people aren't trying to forget.

How can people forget when the label "Black history" itself causes racism and "Black History" to not be considered as being American History to this day? This in itself is the reason why people want the label(s) to be gone.

How does Black History cause racism?

How so? The very fact that their's people complaining about their not being a "White History Month" or whatever is proof of segregation.

Well for starters, blacks weren't segregated from whites in an attempt to raise awareness about being underrepresented.
 
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