Yeah, I was iffy on that word appearing in the title. Thanks for answering the question and pointing those issues out. I don't read HuffPo very often, so I haven't noticed the bias. Often being maybe an article a month from them, but I thought this one was interesting headline notwithstanding.
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.
Short isn't necessarily a bad thing. Why do we need a month to teach about those topics though? Those are important people and events that should be included in secondary school curriculum's. Is it then an educational issue that we're looking at? I feel that it should be interspersed throughout the year, Black history is an important part of American history and should be coupled with that, not relegated to a month.