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user-inactivated  ·  4304 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Black history month has been a failure

    There is no Asian or Hispanic month, because we did not systematically steal these groups from their homeland, enslave them, and then fight a war to ensure that they would be kept in bondage, only to legally codify their sub-human status in law after their freedom was won for another hundred years. No other groups have that history--that's fucking black history.
Sounds an awful lot like what happened to American Indians, actually. But I get what you're saying.




b_b  ·  4304 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That was more massacre. But I would also not complain about celebration of Indian heritage. Complaints about this or that group being slighted because blacks get a month are laughable. I bet most poor blacks would trade spots with you and be happy they don't "get" a month of feigned appreciation.