Why do we have black history month?

[Crepitus]

This lays it out extremely clearly for those that don't understand.

Not that the folks who need to know will bother to watch, sadly.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/jVZu8UC5Mqc?si=SWQqhtR84yyOClxu

 

[TravisBickle]

History is written by the winners.

 

[Walt]

History is written by the winners.

Did the Confederacy win the Civil War? Blacks have won their place in America, but that does not guarantee their place in history. That is a separate battle.

The Daughters of the Confederacy worked for a hundred years to "redefine" the Southern treason, and crimes against humanity.

 

[Yakuda]

This lays it out extremely clearly for those that don't understand.

Not that the folks who need to know will bother to watch, sadly.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/jVZu8UC5Mqc?si=SWQqhtR84yyOClxu

Easy peasy

White guilt

 

[Nomad]

I'm all for having a Black History Month, but what irks me is the self-adoring, virtue signaling by local TV news people every time they talk about it, which is pretty much every day during February.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

This lays it out extremely clearly for those that don't understand.

Not that the folks who need to know will bother to watch, sadly.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/jVZu8UC5Mqc?si=SWQqhtR84yyOClxu

Because those pushing for a separate Black history are racists bigots who want segregation to return.

 

[Nomad]

Because those pushing for a separate Black history are racists bigots who want segregation to return.

It has for many, many years in America, been that we make small allowances and concessions to those who have traditionally been seen as being disadvantaged or having a past history of being disadvantaged.

It's no skin off of your nose or mine to give them a little acknowledgement one month pre year.

 

[Yakuda]

I'm all for having a Black History Month, but what irks me is the self-adoring, virtue signaling by local TV news people every time they talk about it, which is pretty much every day during February.

Because thats all this shit is, virtue signaling...."look how progressive we are".

 

[Yakuda]

Because those pushing for a separate Black history are racists bigots who want segregation to return.

Exactly. If America is "systemically" racist, as leftists claim, this is why

 

[Nomad]

Because thats all this shit is, virtue signaling...."look how progressive we are".

That might be what the media does, but the reason behind dedicating the month to the history of a once oppressed group of people is not just virtue signaling.

It's an earnest, heart felt desire to work towards reconciliation and righting certain past wrongs.

 

[Nomad]

Because those pushing for a separate Black history are racists bigots who want segregation to return.

Because thats all this shit is, virtue signaling...."look how progressive we are".

Or maybe you two are just thin-skinned, insecure, crybaby snowflakes looking for a reason to call yourselves injured victims.

 

[Yakuda]

That might be what the media does, but the reason behind dedicating the month to the history of a once oppressed group of people is not just virtue signaling.

It's an earnest, heart felt desire to work towards reconciliation and righting certain past wrongs.

You just said yourself, "once oppressed group of people". How about the Irish? They were a "once oppressed group of people"? Asians?

A heart felt desire to worked toward reconciliation and righting certain part wrongs, huh? How long has black history month been a thing? When will these certain past wrongs be righted? Will the people who suffered those certain last wrongs be satisfied with the righting?