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user-inactivated  ·  4318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Black history month has been a failure

Still read the article; it was short. The guy's got good points, I guess, in that his article is a pretty good jumping-off point to Wikipedia some names and learn some stuff about African history.

But he's wrong about what Black History Month is. It's a month the government created so they could talk about Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and the Harlem Renaissance. Maybe Delta Blues, if you've got an especially good teacher.

It missed the mark. It's been shunted aside within the education system. I went to one of the best high schools in America, and they barely gave it a nod. Maybe we made a poster or two, read a poem. Fuck all that. If you're the type of person who cares about knowledge and equality, you'll teach yourself that black people are as smart as white people using the internet, and if you're not, the biggest amount of evidence in the world isn't going to convince you of anything.