Paul Essien
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March is Irish-American History Month; April is Confederate History Month; May is Jewish-American History Month; and October is both Italian History Month and Polish-American History Month. There are quite a few history months that fall under the umbrella term of “white.”The point shouldn't be Whites need a history month.
We all read Shakespeare, but why not August Wilson? We learn about the Ottoman Empire and the rise and fall of the Nazis, but do you know about the Belgian concentration camps in the Congo ? Or the history of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa? We learn about Einstein, but why not David Blackwell who worked right alongside him? There is far more to black American history than slavery and civil rights, and failing to illuminate this teaches students of all colors that black achievements are not worth noting.The point should be no race deserves a month because this is simply Institutional Racism, favorable treatment for one race over all others.
But as to slavery you act like being bought and sold, raped, having fingers cut off for learning to read, to being lynched, or relegated to the lowest-rung jobs and living in the poorest neighborhoods counts for nothing.
Does not surviving the attempt to destroy one’s people say something about the character of those who managed it ? Does not leading a struggle for freedom not suggest that the persons in question have made a substantial contribution to the nation in which they live, and indeed the world ?
This, in a nation that has made surviving a few weeks on an island with television cameras and emergency medical assistance at the ready something for which the last person standing get's a million dollars.
You do have Asian history month. You clown and you have Hispanic history monthWhy don't we have an Asian History Month? Why do blacks get special treatment? Because 95% of them vote for Democrats.
The reason why people know more about black history month is because black people fought and died to make sure everyone knows out history. These other just have to do the same