It’s just that damn, every month feels like black history month. Black people get everything. Why is it wrong to feel white pride? Black people also get their own TV station–they have BET while white people only have ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, the CW, and the hundreds of other television networks. It’s ridiculous that we’re going to have to hear about black people for a whole 29 days of the shortest month of the year. That doesn’t seem fair, man. It just doesn’t.
I mean, we like black people, mostly, but we don’t want to have to think about them or anything, not for a whole month, that is just too much. Also, it’s pretty obvious that white people accomplish far more and greater things so, you know…. Can you imagine the “fits” black people would throw if white people had a history month other than January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December?
Also, black people have a president and they are no longer slaves. Are they ever satisfied? When you think about it, it is rather racist that black people get a history month and Hispanic people get a history month while white people only get a white history year, every single year, since beginning of time. It doesn’t matter that history as a cultural concept has historically been synonymous with white history. The word “year” has fewer letters than “month” so it is just is not fair at all.
But we are not racist, okay? WE ARE NOT RACIST. Just sayin’.
So yes, this lament over the lack of a white history month is really a thing.
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‎’White history month’ is actually called “the whole rest of the year + all academic teaching from K-12 and, many times, beyond,” fwiw.
‎”History was written by the winners,” should really be reworded to, “History was written by the entitled and the oppressive.” I.e. the fact that we still ‘celebrate’ Columbus Day is embarrassing (among many, MANY other things). I’m just being a realist. I’ve had to re-learn so much history, it’s borderline insane. I feel like I wasted so much time learning it from a culturally imperialistic point of view. [/end rant]
It’s a shame we can’t see all the Facebook posts to see how many people like statuses like that, too. And the comments. (I hate Facebook.)
America’s division of history and race into either white or black just seems really weird from the outside. What simple brushes to define the world with
Months with an ‘r’ in the name. Otherwise it’s too hot and they aren’t as tasty.
Oh, wait, that’s oyster season. Never mind.
This country’s history is written in between the lower decks of the Slave Ship and the 18th hole.
Human to human, Roxane, this isn’t funny enough to be satire, and it isn’t witty enough to be serious. It’s just a “not a chip but a boulder on the shoulder” bit of smugness. We’re all humans, you’re much better than this “I dream of joining the New Black Panther Party” mentality.
I have never met you, nor have/will I ever go to this site, plus, I am Asian, and I love you for this.
I do also agree with Hansel Dunlop above, though, it should be noted.
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