Whew! Black History Month ended just in time to give Americans—exhausted from a month of vigorous celebrating—time to recover. Promoters of Brown History Month, Yellow History Month, Red History Month, White History Month and Green History Month will continue to have to wait for a month of their own. There was a time when we celebrated the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in February but Liberals put an end to that (be warned, they’re still working on exterminating Christmas). I wonder what Barack Obama does during Black History Month—since he’s only half black maybe he only celebrates half the month?
Black History Month reminds me of that portion of an application form that asks for the race of the applicant; race is not supposed to matter but everyone knows that it does—especially to Liberal policy-makers and administrators. Despite the Civil War, a civil rights movement, several acts of congress, amendments to the constitution and ongoing preferential treatment Liberals are still convinced that new and institutionalized racism is the cure for past racism. They must believe that new injuries cure old injuries.
While we’re on the subject of needless celebrations maybe it’s time we resurrect one of the ancient celebrations and replace Black History Month with it. The Romans had some exciting ones to pick from and none of them have yet been ruined by Liberals. We could have it in February and best of all, all Americans could participate—not just the preferred few.
This is disgusting. I would like to see it placarded all over this nation to let people know what you all REALLY think.
Someone speak up and defend this, please.
This is the dumbest post I’ve read in a long time.
Im sorry, Im beside myself right now. And everyone here knows that two of me in one place would be no fun for anyone .
More seriously, that African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and others of color have suffered an enormous history of struggle if not oppression is without question. We can agree or disagree that stiff laws are needed to prevent continued oppression and continued struggle, and we should be able to agree that these same groups struggle today…all over our nation.
What I can’t believe is that anyone here could possibly argue that this history is not worth learning about or that it is some kind of specialized treatment. THAT I cannot handle, THAT I find appalling, THAT is disgusting.
If any of you believe that racial preferences should be ended, that we are all equal, that the station of poverty that exists for African-Americans and their children is now “just their fault”, then you CANNOT forget the struggle it took to even get this myth (which it is by the way) to a place that you can repeat it with a straight face, much less believe it.
For God’s sake. Read, learn, and remember what these Americans struggled for in what was deemed to be a MODERN America that spoke to the world of rights yet forced those in abject poverty to at the same time fight for them.
Read about the Scottsboro Boys, just as one example. One example, so you can get even a sense of why each of us should take a moment, if not a month, to place what are really a few moments in a classroom all over America and a few lines in textbook here and there. All so we can simply learn a bit about what real struggle is and why some of you can so proudly argue that we made it and everyone is now equal.
In other words, if you believe for a minute today that preferences are wrong and that everyone in America has the same chance at a good life, then you MUST in my opinion bow down and thank god for what is taught in black history month, because it legitimates you if nothing else.
I support Skywalker’s right to free speech but here I come to combat it with good dose of shame shame shame. I hope that you can take a moment tonight and think about what you said.
I apologize to the others here if I lumped you in with this opinion. But if you share it, I wouldn’t want to spend a moment with you in my country.
I think Skyhawk supports JD too.
kralmajales,
Amen. I wish I could get as outraged as you feel, but I’m so used to this kind of stuff get mainstreamed over the last year and a half, it barely registers now – which I’m sure is the point of people like Skyhawk doing this.
Skyhawk could something like “What happened to Emmett Till was bad, but doesn’t anyone care about how that white woman he whistled at felt?” and I think a lot of people might say “Hey, yeah! Why haven’t we looked at it from that perspective before?”
Though I am not black, Crispus Attucks, the underground railroad, Geo. Washington Carver, Booker T Washington, Buffalo Soldiers, Martin Luther King, Jr, etc are all important parts of the history of my country and thus, of my history. Black history month, though not my preference for covering these aspects of our common history, is for everyone. I look forward to the day when such months are not needed or are considered irrelevant.
Perhaps needed even more (especially in AZ) would be a Native American history focus (whether a month or some other approach). They are even more ignored and misrepresented in standard history texts than are blacks.
This is disgusting. Don’t you see that this crap is why America thinks the GOP is racist?
Probably going to get crucified for this but when will it end? Anyone looking oriental were sent to camps during the war. Christians were burned at the stake. Jews were exterminated by the millions. Indians were cheated and lost land and lives. Women were second class citizens. The obese are blamed for global warming and discriminated against. Light skinned blacks and dark skinned blacks kill each other in Africa. There isn’t a group that has not been hurt by injustice. To single out one segment of the population and act like they are the only ones who have ever been mistreated is a lie. It makes us feel nice to give any group some props but what does it really get them? Any more jobs or better health or less disease? No, it’s just another way for those who feel guilty to clear their minds rather then really do something that makes a difference like actual help. Give your time or money to causes that help whatever group you feel has been mistreated. Don’t give them special rights just equal.
Let the name calling begin!
Incognito, DITTO. When it comes to injustices, there are new ones every day. Isn’t it odd that the very liberals who want to have the power over others by ‘protecting’ them are the very ones who remove any possibility of people protecting themselves (like the oppressive gun laws in liberal bastions?, for one example.
TEACH people how to ‘overcome’ and they will do just fine when their saviors are not around. Isn’t that how we raised our children? Instead of the varied classes in our educational institutions that cleverly teach how people can’t survive (without HELP, they should be teaching everyone how to balance a check book, how to discern fraudulence, how to stand on their own and win these daily life battles, BUT I guess the VICTIMS would no longer need the SAVIORS of the democrat party then. What a dilemma.
PS. It is ALWAYS about power. When the day comes (if ever) that the saviors find their own power and no longer need to depend on sucking up the power over others, we will no longer discriminate as we will all be on the same equal footing. Sometimes we will win and sometimes we will lose (and learn, perhaps?)and hopefully understand that no one will ALWAYS win nor ALWAYS lose.
Why not do like Mother’s day or Father’s day and have the civil rights holiday on a Sunday? We could get Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday back and on that civil rights holiday you could send flowers to a black person.
Skyhawk’s line,”Despite the Civil War, a civil rights movement, several acts of congress, amendments to the constitution and ongoing preferential treatment…”, is another way of saying “What the hell else do you people want after all we have done for you?”.
This simple-minded yet rhetorical prompt from Skyhawk epitomizes the undercurrents of unacknowledged racial tension, fear and jealousy within the GOP that are killing the party as we speak.
For many, this type of GOP racial insensitivity and venom is the #1 deal breaker in elections and support for candidates – just as the life issue is for others. You can’t possibly cherish the sanctity of life while simultaneously mocking God’s creation thereof.
Hypocrisy is the plague of the Republican Party and I’m ashamed of what it has become. We all should be.
To Skyhawk: Cute reference to the type of fighter plane John McCain was flying when he was shot down over Vietnam. Charming.
Um, Iris, I think that the purpose of celebrating Black History is to inspire people to do the things you just mentioned. To show kids that the people that were oppressed stood up to adversity and made a contribution to society. I’m not sure why that’s so hard to understand.
As far as Christians, Jews, and the others who were also oppressed; they have their history celebrated everyday. Christian culture and holidays are thrust upon us everyday all day ( I say that as a Christian), I’d say having an overwhelming majority of Presidents, Senators, Congressman, Judges, corporate leaders, etc. Etc. being white since the inception of this country says all you need to know. And you guys want to get all pissy about one month out of the year which no one pays any attention to? I feel for your “oppression”. Grow up.
It would appear Mr. or Mrs. Kralmajales is a professional victim. Until we lose the mentality that any one particular race or skin color needs to be singled out for preferential treatment we will not gain equality. As long as people like him play the role of professional victim we will not have equality. When we start treating each other as equals rather than giving any one group special treatment we will have equality.
What ever happened to “I have a dream that my four little children will one day be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.?
That message seems to have gotten lost along the way. Pity…..
Mr. Bill: “Hypocrisy is the plague of the Republican Party”? Really? Hypocrisy is the plague of the Democratic Party. From top to bottom, the Dems are hypocrites to the core. Republicans can certainly be accused of being insenstive to the plight of some, but as a party and as a people we want equal rights (ie. equal opportunity) for everyone–not institutionalized racism for or against any group. The policies of the Dems keep minorities on the “government plantation” as much as possible, securing their votes through confiscatory taxation and constant lies about conservatives. By the way, has anyone noticed we have a black president? Yeah, the U.S. is really racist.
Hypocrisy? You mean like BET [BLACK Entertainment Televisio? Wonder what would happen if they came out with the WET [white Entertainment Television]? Or the white, honky cracker version of Ebony magazine?
I’m just sayin……
Must be my eyesight but nowhere in the post did I see the words Republican or GOP. Looks like people are reading in things that don’t exist in the posting.
Having been on the receving end of reverse discrimination, I applauded SCOTUS for their decision in the Ricci v. New Haven case and Dr. Bill Cosby’s positions regarding quotas and preferences. The US is a meritocracy. We are not founded on equal outcomes.
“What ever happened to “I have a dream that my four little children will one day be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.?
That message seems to have gotten lost along the way. Pity…..”
Black History month continues that message. In fact you hear that repeatedly during the celebrations that promote pride not victimization. Meanwhile Glenn Beck calls the President a racist who hates white people and Rush Limbaugh plays “Barack the magic Negro” on his show to let all the little brown children know that they better mind their place. That Obama is somehow illegitimate.
Until those voices are drowned out, I think its safe to tell black children in this country that they have value and a history to be proud of and that the content of their character is better than the racists that denegrate them daily.
So Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Rev. Al still promtoe MLK’s original message? I think not.
Also Timbo, Get your facts straight. Barack the Magic Negro originally came from and article in the LA Times.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/19/opinion/oe-ehrenstein19.
Rush was just pointing out what the Times article started.
Also, FYI, the author of that article,David Ehrenstein, happens to be a “brother”.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/lytrules/default/david-ehrenstein-jeff-goldblum–large-msg-122950872231.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lytrules.buzznet.com/user/photos/david-ehrenstein-jeff-goldblum/%3Fid%3D48008441&h=375&w=500&sz=27&tbnid=q7CSCcNofE2HnM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDavid%2BEhrenstein&usg=__zIBuy29tDPSjjpTAeI9z4qBMTsI=&ei=-VuNS6WWOo2cswOy64SsAw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBQQ9QEwAw
Good try though……..
Unbelievable.
I am so glad that I left the GOP and conservatism. I can’t believe I ever thought that way now.
kralmajales Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Someone speak up and defend this, please.
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“You all?” What do you mean by “you all?”
Oops I meant to include Louis Farrakahn as the third MLK “representative”.
Let us also remember how Bill Cosby was VILIFIED for speaking out that African-Americans are not “holding up their end of the deal” and need to take more responsibility for their families and communities”.
The sad truth is that institutionalized racism is ablaze in this country and largely because of misguided ethnic studies programs.
A child’s sense of value comes from home. The fake outrage represented in some of these posts is a complete waste of energy.
History is properly taught in context. The claim that American history injures minority kids is ridiculous, but that is what Mecha, la Raza, and Black Liberation theology will train a child to think. American history involves other cultures and should be celebrated by all, but special interest groups have gone way over board with ethnicity. Martin Luther King’s dream had nothing to do with celebrating color. If parents want ethnicity training for their offspring, they should foot the bill and teach it themselves in the loving context of home. Instead, school systems pay angry agenda-driven hustlers to poison young minds in the name of ethnic studies. It needs to stop.
Clyde Says:
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 am
This is disgusting. Don’t you see that this crap is why America thinks the GOP is racist?
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Yeah. How does the Anti-Slavery Party which ended the institution of slavery in America, supported full Constitutional Rights for Black Americans AGAINST Democrat Party machinations to deny rights thru Jim Crow, segregation, Klu Klux Klan, denial of Second Amendment Rights to Blacks, Democrat Party refusal to desegregate schools despite the law,and the Democratic Party filibuster of the Civil Rights Act, led by honored Democratic Party Senator and Democrat Party leader, Robert Byrd, former Klu Klux Klan Grand Kleagle,
get to be smeared with the racist past of the Democratic Party which scoots about crying it’s NOT Democrats, but Republicans which are racists?
There have NEVER been Klu Klux KLan members in the GOP. Republcians have been MURDERED by the KKK, hardly a sign of solidarity. There has been a ranking Democrat for DECADES in the United States Senate moved up right out of the Klan, and the Democrats have NEVER purged him out.
It was the Republican presidents Eisenhower and Nixon who forced the Democratic Party -enclaves to desegregate the schools.
After years of observing this cockamamie situation, it’s either total ignorance or willful deceit worthy of the NEWSPEAK of 1984 or Brave New World.
Oop look! A curiously out of place posting and suddenly the professional keeners and wailers are out and about, ashes on heads, tearing their robes, soooo glad! praising the skies above they aren’t those nasties Republicans!
Uh, huh. Does this mean we’ll be getting more of this hackneyed theatre from now on?
Not only was the GOP the leader against slavery and segregation but a Republican President also had the most minorities in his administration. Which party supports the killing of babies (mostly black) under the name of pro choice, not those mean Repubs.
If being racist is asking each able bodied citizen to support himself then call me racist. If being racist means asking for no preferential treatment for anyone then call me racist. If being racist means being proud of a country (even with its flaws) that has helped millions around the world then call me racist.
Racism will always exist to some extent. The real slavery going on today is the Democrat party subsidizing low income families. With no incentive to get out of poverty the poor will always remain that way and they can thank the party that has kept them there for years!
As far as kralmajales, we’re glad you’re gone too!
Oh but, Incognito, kralmajales isn’t “gone” now is he/she? kralmajales just can’t get enough of us. I absolutely love seeing posts from kralmajales and klute and others who spend so much time reading our blogs! It just means they are wasting their time arguing with people who will never support them and not spending time helping their cause! It ROCKS!
To Jane,
Thank you for your comment. Intelligent, thoughtful and with great insight. You,young lady, speak the truth.
I thought this was worth reading:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6062.html
There is a point to be seen from all sides…
WOW…I have no idea how that posted…here is the rest of what I was going to say:
1. The right to be treated with equality and justice for all is not a maybe in this country, it is a given.
2. History is full of exceptions to that given that has resulted in inferior opportunity and experiences.
3. Cultures and ethnic groups that have historically been subject to discrimination deserve to be given help to overcome the deficiencies.
BUT….
4. Maintaining a victim mentality, requiring special treatment to assuage the damage, only deepens the feeling of inferiority and resurgent anger.
5. Playing the role of the guilty offender, or being placed in that role, serves to separate rather than unite and deepens the divide.
There was a time when affinity based organizations were necessary to assimilate into a culture that was not as inviting to all. Country Clubs, public swimming pools, history books and curriculum are no longer restricted to segregationist control.
When we elected a president who was of mixed race (which has been historically a cultural taboo) with a middle name of Hussein…we proved that we had crossed that bridge as a nation.
There are those, such as the Black Panthers who stood guard at the polling place…who still feel their sense of oppression trumps the rights of others. What does the existence of Black History Month say to them? That they are still oppressed and in need of special treatment?
Bigotry and racism are not unique to whites. Until we stop with the separatist rhetoric disguised as respect…it will continue.
There are Black, Asian, Hispanic, and White…male and female…contemporary newscasters telling the stories of our nation on TV, all sorts of celebrities and positive role models for ALL children…and adults…to use as they form their reality.
Black Americans, White Americans, Brown Americas, Asian Americans…?
Just call me American.
I was born in the mid-west. Doesn’t that make me a Native American?
A large part of the early US was largely prosperous because of the extensive use of slave labor and all its horrible degradations, violence and cruelty. The faustian bargain made at the founding of the country has been a horrible wound which has ramifications today. Black history month is in part an attempt to make sure the story is told but also the stories of many African-Americans who worked to make America better and to live up to its supposed principles.
People who are offended by a focus on Black History or who seek to trivialize by asking ridiculously when there will be a ‘Green history month’ or compare a social safety net to the cruelty of slavery strike me as people who either do not understand the role and importance of this history reaching into today or are simply too uncomfortable with the basic facts because it blows a whole in their neat little narrative about US history and how US society works.
We are very well aware of US history. At some point it’s time to take off the hairshirt and stop punishing ourselves for the best compromise that was possible in the late 1700′s when virtually every country allowed slavery.
Try reading Thomas Sowell’s fabulous book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Slavery has been going on since the beginning of humanity, with the conquered being enslaved by the conqueror [to the victor goes the spoils] and it continues today in many parts of the world. I’m parphrasing here, but Sowell brings to light that only in America’s short history has slavery been equated with race. A deep read but well worth it.
Maybe this is why the Progressives are now arguing to teach history starting in 1877. Curiously about the very same time as the start of “Progressive” movement in the USA and also conveniently allows Democrats to not have to tell people the Republican Party was the Anti-Slavery Party.
Schools ALREADY manage to start American history at about 1850, don’t have to skim over the INCONVENIENT American Revolution anymore and those pesky “Founding Fathers” who are to be TOTALLY ignored because they were slave-holders, even though they deliberately wrote themselves out of that business through the Constitution.
IF the Founding Fathers were as reprobate as the Liberal Left likes to portray them, the USA would be a slave nation today – codified in the Constitution. They COULD have and they CHOSE not to. That would normally make them heroes, but the Left isn’t interested in encouraging THAT line of thought.
Nope, got to go to other countries today to find slavery in current practice. Quite a number of which had once been part of the conquests of the Ottoman Empire.
Where’s the irate reserved for that genuine modern injustice?
These comments sure show quite a bit of neglect among the ranks here (except Annie Hoyle). So Black History month is what it is. It doesn’t bother me that Black people have their own history month, but it does bother me that if you’re gonna have a “history month,” don’t leave out the most significant part of it: More blacks are killed by legalized abortion than the KKK and slavery combined.
And when Rep Trent Franks said in a liberal blogger’s interview last week…
“Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459Dny0aabI)
…liberals attacked him. Now right from the mouths of national Black leaders comes a furious defense of Franks (http://is.gd/9zuR9).
Wanumba,
I tire like crazy of the arguments that the GOP was somehow the savior of black American, so therefore that is how it is now. You forget the largest part of modern American history…the partisan realignment that moved many a white bigotted former Democrat in the South into a newly formed Republican party that created the Southern strategy and has purposely used race as a dividing issue in campaign after campaign. Neither the Democrat party nor the Republican party are even close to the same as they were way back in the 60s and 70s.
Im am not here to declare all republicans racists, but I came here to declare this post ignorant, sad, and disgusting…because it is.
It was President Johnson in the 60s that passed the Civil Rights Act and that drove many a southernor segregationist democrat toward the GOP. Ignore the last 40 years all you want, but it doesn’t change that fact that most efforts to cure discrimination and to repair the harm it did come from liberal thought and most of the attacks on those programs come from the GOP…and with impunity.
I understand and can argue with on good terms those who worry about quotas harming the very person they are meant to protect. I understand and can argue with those of you who fear (needlessly I think) reverse discrimination.
I would need only say that you can just lift one line out of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, say “see he meant all races are equal”, declare them so, and then ignore what hundreds of years of oppression did to Black and Hispanic American…not to mention Asian America and the like.
Those things will not be cured be just declaring that its over, everyone is equal, and ready set go…compete. When you start halfway up the mountain and your competitor starts at the bottom you cannot declare the race fair as you race up the hill.
When will it all end? When will the need for discrimination law end? Set asides are virtually gone, the law has spoken when policies have gone too far (Ricci), but affirmative action programs in hiring are indeed necessary…at the least the portion of them that require jobs to be advertised to the public and for diversity to be considered as one factor in hiring and admission. The same way that contacts, inside ball, and the good old boy network is there to alway give a hand up to white males.
I could go on because I can agree and disagree with much of what some of you had said.
But this post was ignorant and the arguments that back them here are as well for the most part. When will we have white history month? As if you have been infringed on in some horrible way by dedicating a month to go out of our way to teach just a few of the lessons and even fascinating history of the struggle for civil rights in this nation. Some guy got my job because he was black, when that rarely occurs and for the most part some white guy got the opportunity that a woman should have had…and for years and years and years.
I could go on, but like someone here said, you don’t want to know what I have to say nor do you care.
But if one person here…one person thinks about this for one second in a different way…then I have done what I hoped to have done.
#38,
Unreal. Trent Franks is absolutely wrong. He can sit on his silverspoon fed perch and argue a bunch of bull…but to even equate policies that are designed to provide education, opportunity, and indeed access to slavery and say it is as bad is ridiculous. No wonder people think that the GOP has become racist and that the GOP’s solutions to problems benefit those that already have versus those that have not. Again…give everyone a head start…don’t start the stop watch…and then tell those with little to start running…you’ll catch up. BULL.
So? What is our point about more black baby’s being killed by abortion than the KKK. Is it that we should end and stop abortion or are you somehow arguing that the KKK and what people faced in civil rights is just no big thang???? COME ON. Choose your words…and carefully…fella. I hope that is not what you meant.
Oh…and yes…end a young woman’s right to choose. So for everyone one of those babies that people fail to adopt because they arent the right color, for every young mother who needs help raising that child, for every person some here deny a additional funding for education, lack of sex ed in schools, and no welfare…because its there fault…the enormous crime rate that is yet unsolved and the even more young men and women who are black that end up dead due to violence….
Are you prepared to deal with any of that? Any here want to help? Or is all that JUST THEIR FAULT…they should all just suck it up…and let those poor children continue to suffer the ills that faced their parents.
A ramble yes…but I hear much more of this from the GOP…so called personal responsibility…no hand outs…than I do anything else.
wanumba – Who is arguing US History should be taught starting in 1877? Really that is absurd. It is equally absurd to suggest schools start teaching US History at 1850.
Of course you are referring to the erroneous report that NC schools had a plan to eliminate teaching US History pre-1877 when in fact they have a plan to increase history classes by adding an extra 1/2 year in the fifth grade and a full year in middle school. Of course you read something on some website and automatically believed it because it fits into your narrow worldview.
Your understanding of the compromise on slavery is so silly it is barely worth comment.
pappatodd,
So slavery has been going on since the beginning of human history – so what? We live in this country with its specific set of history and circumstances so talking about this seems perfectly reasonable. Wow, talk about relativism.
@papatodd,
You and wanumba have got the goods.
I’d say all the revisionist tip-toeing is more oppressive than slavery ever was. What a silly notion, that blacks need a Black History month to revisit the past when they have the Democrat party. Indeed, liberals intend “ethnic studies” as a harness. Considering such a happy annual “celebration” as Black History month, how is it that the number of incarcerated black Democrat males has skyrocketed since its inception? Not one out of four Hispanics graduate from high school, and that trend is worsening. La Raza ought to be proud. I’m grateful that more and more people are starting to see our “new” education system for what it is–a mess!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/02/kkk-style-pillowcase-found-ucsd/?imw=Y
So what are you all doing on St. Patty’s day ?
Oops..Guess that needs to go as well.
Kral is right on this. To remain silent would be to condone such nonsense.
Allow people to celebrate their diversity. We are not all the same, but we are equal.
Have each month represent a different culture. Hey have a European Immigrant History month as well. All are meaningful and valid. No need to ban any and/or all.
Twisting the issue won’t solve anything. No one is arguing ethnic celebrations. The problem is when Americans cannot discern the difference between race-baiting and celebrating.
Anyway, celebrating what we have in common is much more fun!!!!
Jane,
Care to explain how Black History month is more oppressive than slavery was? Really, I am interested to know.
Uh, Jane?
“No one is arguing ethnic celebrations.”
Assuming there’s an “against” in there, that’s exactly what Skyhawk is doing.
Quoting: “While we’re on the subject of needless celebrations…”
wanumba,
“There have NEVER been Klu Klux KLan members in the GOP.”
I’m curious, is it possible for you to do even one post without an obvious misstatement/lie in it?
David Duke, GOP candidate for LA governor is the most obvious example.
Celebrating the accomplishments of AMERICANS makes us all proud. It paints a colorful picture of a country made more rich and robust because of the struggles and how we overcame them…through the efforts, ingenuity and discovery of MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
When we separate accomplishments, or point out the separating factor specifically by race, a message is sent that race is a reason to be divided. No inclusion, please. DO NOT OVERCOME!
No one denies the horror of slavery. No one denies the segregationist past. No one denies the racism that split citizens into classes.
I am denying the need to keep doing it.