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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Black history month has been a failure

I'm not arguing it's well executed. You'll notice I already covered that. I'm arguing it's atonement for former sins. While Asians were not treated well during the 19th c, their treatment (and that if the Irsish) is qualitatively different. Each of those groups came here willingly, and none was subjected to Jim Crow until THE 1960s (and even that was only nominal; segregation has been de facto ever since). Hell, even your town (in the North) rioted in the 70s when they tried to forcibly integrate the schools. You all are making an extreme false equivalency, like saying that there shouldn't be Holocaust museums, because Christians died during WWII also. Does getting a month of recognition advance the cause of blacks? Probably not. But would anyone else who feels slighted by this recognition trade places with them? Absolutely not. You're a comedian, right? You should check out Chris Rock's bit about the busboy who won't trade places with him. Its brilliant.