I feel that black history month is unfair because there is not a month for every race on the planet. Not only that, but my ancestors are made out to be rapists and blood-thirsty animals in history books and such(I am Norweigen). Why am I not allowed to "celebrate" my history?

all well mostly all no all of the months are made by white people...July Julis Cesar
August Agustis Ceaser..... So on....Were white people treated so cruly? as say compared to black people? no white people treatd them so badly the people who united us Martin Luther King Jr. ~~~ So on
White people & Native American have a holiday a united Holiday Thanksgiving....Chinese we dont celebrate greek new year... its not on the calender... the chinese new year is .. your point about only black people having their own holiday think again [EMAIL] iwantcottoncandy@aol.com[/EMAIL]

What do you mean blood thirsty animals, or rapist..... Black History Month is to celebrate those in wich are african americans who hve gotten far or changed the world & those who will & those of the ancestors who worked for their freedom & so on.....I am Mexican-Italian and have my godmother who is afican american also my goddaughter is & I respect Martin Luther King Jr. ~~~ Not only for what the world know of what he did but of him being a great awsome father figure... im dissapointed that someone would disrespect someone like Dr.King or Rosa Parks or Denzal Washington...& a culture who in wichis very respected & worked hard at the expence & for /to make the high life say for white people,mexican or whatever race was a slave owner so if you want to debate with me you can i have no problem..See ya Toni

Im sorry you must of fell asleep during history when they talk about the europeans and all the white people in history. White people get 11 months of learning about there history and you don't want to give blacks the shortest month of the year. Im sorry but your full of crap. Yeah your ancestors we blood-thristy rapist or at least some of them were. And they mangage to persecute every race and religion in history. You shold be exicted to learn about other cultures cause I can tell by your post you probably know nothing about african american history.

well, i personally like black history month. its intersting to learn about african american cultures.
i just don't like what goes along with it.
i don't know if its like this everywhere, but in my school, around the time of black history month, some of the african students get sort of... well, evil, for lack of a better word to describe it. white students are jumped, beaten up, cat called, pranked... and i hate it.
why should my generation get all the crap for something that happened so long ago? My ancestors didn't do anything, nor did my friends'... yet we are punished.
Some students don't even know if it was their ancestors that were slaves!
I hate what happened to the africans. I really do. And i'm sorry. But its totally unjust that white people are still labled as "raceist" for things that don't even have to do with race, such as a white teacher giving a white student a better grade than a black student. absolutly nothing to do with race, but its twisted so the white person becomes discrimiant.
So why am i blamed? why is my generation blamed? I'm not even a "pure white" ,as they're called. My father was welsh and philipino, and my mother was french and japanese!
The Jewish had it much worse, but only some black people hold a grudge.
ARUGH!!!!!
Peace Out, much love.

well, because our ancesters in part were bloodthirsty rapists. you are completely entitled to celebrating your history, no one is stopping you. black history month is just a time for everyone to celebrate a culture that has been opressed for years. the only thing i think that is unfair about not having a culture month for every culture on the planet is that we cant explore all of those other cultures. not just so we can show off ours.

Maybe instead of trying to divy up 12 months between all the opressed groups in the world, we should pressure the school system to teach a more holistic, honest view of history every month.

Are you with me?


Love, Jenny

so? im half german, we're all made out to be people haters and crap...however blacks were the worst by the whites treated in "the land of the free", they deserve a month for them, dont be so damn selfish...jews were treated pretty bad but they have stuff too...just dont be so selfish, i mean, theres Women months and crap for everyone

I am black and white, So i belive my opinion on this subject should mean alot I was rased to think that every one should be treated equal but that is hard when there is still some people who dont belive that. I belive that blak history is well deserved because we hear every day in history about how white people did something good so i think that we should at least get to hear about the great and amazing things that are black heros did if it wasnt for MARTIN LUTHER KING we wouoldnt have some of the friends we have now. And also HARRIET TUBMAN,MALCOM X,ROSA PARKS these are just a few of the amazing black heros that we have and black histoy mouth is are on time to show appreciation to these magnifacent people.

I as a African American think there should be a black history month and i have alot of reasons.First of all if you notice most schools dont teach about blacks as much as they do whites.
they teach about presidents which are all white.mostly all monthes are white months or were made up by whites.dont get me wrong i have nothing against white people but i do not like the things their ancestors did to ours.also its not that easy to forget something like that but of course you wouldnt know.you can always forgive a person but you will never forget.and you cant know how something feels until its been done to you so dont say i know how you feel.this world is a very big percentage of whites more than blacks.and i think we deserve the chance to have something representing us so dont hate when we get our one little shine.

Kilo1:
What I'm trying to say is that my community doesn't have enough black people in it to really be exposed. I am active in my community, and am making an effort to be meet people from other cultures, but it's hard to when you live in a suburban town with very few black people. Does that offend you? That I'm trying to understand minorities, but it's difficult, is that something you're going to question, am I still confusing you? By the way, are you black? Here's a way to rephrase my question in a way that will be less likely for you to avoid the question with other questions. If you think it's seperatist of me to point out differences between white and black people, why do you think black people should have their own different month for themselves.

To all the people who said "the other 11 months are white history months":
It's not. I know. The only recognition of the white race is that you see other people like you a lot. I don't see why black people have their own month while latinos don't, asian people don't, pakistani people don't, Isreali people don't, etc., etc. They have a history too. And so do white people. I think Jewish people have a more horrific past than black people. But they don't have their own month. I know that might sound a little cruel, but it's true. And it makes no sense. Black people have their own month, and they are the only race that have that. I'm sorry, but I don't think that's right.

Outspokenme, thanks for claryfing your point. I see what you're saying. I wasn't saying that we should equal black and white history. I'm simply saying that a lot of black history that exists isn't recognized. Dumars...It's not as simple as you are putting it. First of all, if you wanna argue numbers you can. But look at who controls the most powerful country in the world. White people. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that it causes other people not to get recognized at times. As far as minorities forgetting the past, yeah, there are some who dwell too much in the past, but a lot of people seem to think that racism really doesn't exist anymore. No, it isn't as blatant, but there is still a lot of it. It usually comes in the form of prejudice these days.

Resuming where I was:

Kilo, I agree that some white people feel threatened by the "minority months" (as you put it), however, if you are suggesting that I am, you are way off target. To me, a person is a person is a person and so on. Outward appearances mean jack to me. I don't stereotype people like that. Under any circumstance. (again, I'm not sure that you were implying me, but I'm just clarifying my own view).

Now dont get me wrong, I think that black history month is great and an excelent way to teach youth about the history and people who have made a difference in the history of the usa. But I also feel that we need to move on and let the past die so we can move twards the future. I am ashamed by what happened in the past but that was more than 30 years ago and people still complain about it. I dont think we should have black, white or any other color clubs anymore. Why? because we are labling ourselves and not moving forward. What happened in the past happened but let it go. Besides those people who think they are a minority need to open their eye a bit wider and take a look at the whole world and not just the us. All in all the world itself has only about a 17 percent white population. In other words the rest of the world is 83 percent black, brown and anyother color. Besides white people will always be a minority in the world because we donot have as many babys as other nations as well we are actually 17 th on the list of live births per 1000 people in the world. #1 goes to china and the larget population as well. Its time to move on and let the past go, fight for the future let the past go.

Frankly, Kilo, I've had to "search" for white history and black history alike. In the history of the US, you cannot make black and white history equal. Why? Because blacks haven't had a very high rank in society in our history. The same would go for women. It cannot be balanced because it wasn't balanced.

I need to go, so I'll keep posting later today.

Oh yeah, also..."And silly me, saying that we're a different culture from you"..."you want a month of recognition for your culture". Um...did I ever say I was black?

Liberalchic, if you spent half as much time actually READING and COMPREHENDING people's posts, you wouldn't disagree nearly so much. You say you're active in your community and try to study other cultures, but "it's hard to get your culture when all we've been exposed to is rediculous rappers and the handful of black people in our schools." That's confusing. And did I say that we needed a black history month to recognize the black CULTURE? Yeah, I guess I did. Except one thing...I didn't say the word culture once. My problem with your statement about the culture thing is that you sounded like you thought there was a cultural difference because that's the way different races are born...which is not true. Maybe I took it the wrong way. I shouldn't have overreacted, but if you really READ my post, it wouldn't be confusing to you.

Liberalchick...."it's hard to get your culture when all we've been exposed to is rediculous rappers and the handful of black people in our schools." That's just stupid. All you've been "exposed" to. Get your butt out and expose yourself to some other black people. And what the hell do you mean "your culture". That's a separtist attitude. We're all people. Get a life.
-Kilo1

oh gosh, I'm ever so sorry, how ignorant of me, I mean, what am I doing? I'm active in my community,I participate in extraciricular activities in and outside of my school, and I make an extreme effort to study other cultures, stupid me for not even trying to expose myself to other cultures. And silly me, saying that we're a different culture from you, how could I do that, I mean, that's so stupid of me! But wait, you want a month of recognition for your culture, but, aren't we all human? Your vicious opinions and insults are starting to confuse me.

in my opinion, we should have black history month. think of all the cruel and unjust things that have happened in the past, dont u think we owe it to them just for the mere fact of the past? its true that we dont have a month for every culture, but, i think, of all of those, african americans have been discriminated against the most.

-later

by the way, i never read that norwegiens were blood-thirsty animals, or rapists bushsupporter. and when you think about it, why would they say that in a book? especially a childs book.

Black history month is a must have in society.
All races have been through struggles.
But blacks have had it the worst.
First we did not ask to be here.
Once we helped to build this so called great country we were no longer needed.
Then all the cries of go back to were you came from are yelled .
Even in school we you study U.S. History there is only about 3 sections in the whole book about african american in the united states.
The chapters are as followed we were once slaves, harlem renassiance,civil rights movement.
This is not history but just a brief summary .
Black history month is needed so that the truth can be learned about my culture. It is a shame that we have to pack all of are much indetailed history in to one month. Because if we do not then we would never learn about any of it.