Oh, big, fucking deal! Truth in advertising!
Gee… how many guesses do we get to name which way you act?
Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum! I smell the blood of… Oh, wait, wrong story… So, then, the third Billy Goat Gruff said…
What intellectual debate? I see people rightly pointing what an ass the OP is being. Ok on preview I see that jarbabyj has decided to add a few facts. There always one isn’t there. 
Caught in my own web of logic. Dang you, jarbaby! 
This shizzle is all fuzzizzle.
Okay, so you’re saying it’s playing catch-up; educating white folks about black folks. Sounds reasonable, assuming white people are listening, or not already such a product of their white education that prejudice is ingrained so they don’t care.
Any fewer black folks in poverty or prison, though - what’s it doing for the black folks ?
Harriet Tubman says:
You can kiss my runaway-slave-saving, shotgun-carrying, hankerchief-wearing black ass!
Nate Turner says:
You can kiss my slave-rebellion-starting, hallucinating cowboy black ass!
Booker T Washington says:
You can kiss my vocational skills-emphasizing, Tuskeegee Institute-founding black ass!
Madama CJ Walker says:
You can kiss my self-made-millioniare, hair-products-creating, Harlem socialite black ass!
Malcolm X says:
You can kiss my by-any-means-necessary, bean-pie-eating, praise-be-to-Allah black ass!
monstro says:
Once you screw black history in its “big black ass”, don’t expect to appreciate white history ever again. You know the saying. Once you go black, you never go back! Well it’s true.
Hey jarbaby – if you’re still there and for anyone else should they care:
I tell you what it is (for me); I’m tired of this bullshit liberal agenda, and I’m tired of it now because it’s what the received wisdom was here in the 1980s. We did it, I grew up supporting this shit. It’s bollocks. Maybe it’s even destructive.
All events such as this Month do, imho, is appease the liberal conscious without actually contributing anything meaningful; by all means preach to the converted but don’t think for one minute its addressing any root issues, or the ignorance that feeds prejudice.
Who out there – which ignorant whitey – is going to suddenly embrace integration, equality and the whole agenda because a teeevee show he’s not going to watch (because of his ingrained thinking) is telling the already converted some black dude twigged the filament. It doesn’t even begin gto scratch the surface.
Again (imho); you’re preaching to the converted, making ‘em feel better, helping them delude themselves into thinking things are on the up.
Meanwhile out there on the streets and in the prisons, things get worse and worse.
That was my experience of all this bollocks in the early 80s.
It’s a learning curve, and this part is all about making the mistakes you’re later going to be learning from.
Feed the world, baby.
ROFLMAO!
I think Lifetime celebrates black history month by colorizing a Meredith Baxter “Disease of the Week” movie and dubbing the words “Sickle Cell Anemia” over “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” or “Lyme Disease” (whichever malady Meredith’s suffering from that week).
This isn’t entirely accurate. Edison originally invented the carbon filament electric lightbulb, but it was Lewis Howard Latimer, the only African-American member of the Edison research team, who subsequently developed and patented the process for manufacturing them.
Fair enough LC but that’s quite a different debate, in fact one I might like to particapate in if you care to start one up in GD. If you want my opinion on the matter, it’s mainly commercialization thats fueling the TV and print ads (McDonald’s goes all out)rather than a liberal . Simply another way of reaching a demographic. Whether or not they changing minds is an interstesting question.
My campus paper carried an op/ed in this week’s edition about Black History Month from a black student, and since we all know all black people speak for the entire group, I thought I’d share his opinion. (Please mind the possibility of sarcasm in that last sentence.)
He says this has been the “worst Black History Month that I can recall.”
Do black people really feel that this is a token gesture? I certainly don’t. I’ve learned a lot about contributions by blacks since Black History Month started. I certainly didn’t learn it in my anything-but-diverse white suburban education. I agree that it is not enough, but it’s better than it used to be.
Well, I learned from the Sears commercial that the black man invented the law mower and thus was the cause of all those “mow the lawn” fights with my father while growing up.
Damn “those” people!
Note to self: Preview, preview, preview!!!
“Agenda” should have appeared after the word liberal in my last post.
I thought it was: “Free your mind and your ass will follow.”
Or, “Black don’t crack!”
Or, “The only thing I have to do is be black and die!” At least, these are the things auntie em is always telling me. She already knows that I’ve gone black and I can’t go back. Or she won’t let me go back–I’m never quite sure about that one.
Wait, is someone humming “Black Butteryfly?”
I actually agree with you, London_Calling. It’s interesting to know that a black person invented the folding chair, but does that kind of knowledge really impact me as a human being? Make me a better person? Solve all the racial disharmony and tension? No. It’s interesting and makes me feel proud sometimes, but they are just mere facts. It wasn’t until I took a black history course when I realized how trivial mainstream black history really is.
I wish black history didn’t have to be relegated to its own month. I wish it could be seamlessly incorporated into the regular curriculum. I wish the heros and heroines of black history could be praised alongside their white counterparts without the “black” descriptor in front of their names (as in, black scientist, black politician, black leader).
Maybe one day it will be like that.
The best thing about black history month, though, is that the chances of flipping on the TV and finding a movie with a predominately black cast increases a bunch. And I like all those civil rights documentaries on PBS.
Damnable extra “y”! I like my winged insects with margarine, only.
Thank you captain nit pick. My point is, for a great deal of us we were not a party to learning about African American/Hispanic/Asian culture growing up, and I’m not going to sit around and bitch because a segment of the news or a commercial or a special on the history channel is produced to try and enlighten me.
More important was sinful’s proclamation to NOT RESPECT ANYONE who observes Black History Month. Extreme? I think so. :rolleyes:
I agree wholeheartedly with the OP… Black History Month? What the fuck?
Why isn’t this just a part of History? Black History Month can only sustain seperation between the races and I’ve always found this to a spectacularly stupid way to “make up for” what your history books may have been lacking in the past (And may be lacking now, what the fuck do I know about American history anyway?). So continue your eye-rolling feast if you will but I, for one, think all these “Other Race Celebrations” are completely asanine.
In hindsight I see that I am, as so often before, a bit lacking in the sense-making department so … what London_Calling said.
Yay! I love it when pit threads reach the 40s and the OP doesn’t bother to respond!
Maybe we could make it a rule where a thread gets a maximum of 10 posts, and then it locks up until the OP comes back by.