Black History Month is for everyone to celebrate
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Im not black, but every year I learn about contributions to history from black people that I didn’t know about and I always love it! This year I learned about how Thomas Jefferson had a black chef that, among other things, brought mac and cheese to the US. How is that not a fun fact? Who would be angry to learn that? Assholes and lame asses, that’s who.
They will change it to American History Month and prosecute/defund anyone who celebrates BHM.
Segregationists made black history a thing by making black people live separate lives, thus creating a distinct history.
I don’t always feel better for knowing what my forecrackers have done. But each time I learn more about experiences different from mine, it’s time well spent.
white dude here, there is nothing more revolutionary, more punk rock, more american than going from property to President. Happy BHM.
Black history is American History
*CHANGE MY MIND*
PBS is still celebrating black history month with some good content. They still preserve and play the old films from the civil rights movement, and share the stories of the folks who lived through it. There has never been a better time to support public media and protect our history as Americans.
I’m white and grew up in a small town but had the good fortune to have teachers who must have known what was up. They had us read The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. We were taught that Harriet Tubman was a hero.
I don’t know who to thank for that, but I get the feeling that it’s not happening anymore, at least for white kids.
My dad was a highschool chemistry teacher and he had a file of index cards in his classroom with about 50 notable Black scientists, about 50 women in science, and similar groups. He even had some white dudes to fill in some gaps in the rotation. During the year he’d throw them all in, especially during one of the “months”, but also seemingly at random.
It was never random. It was a student or group of students who needed a little juice for their attention and it was always on the topic they were covering. He felt like he had been able to picture himself as a chemist and that had helped him, so he ought to do that.
As a Brown Skin Man
I Salute
All
My African Brothers and Sisters
And
All my Asian people
And
Salute All good whatever skin color you are
Much Love and Respect
FatMan “Human Sour Skittles” 5 Thousand
Reading books like “Things Fall Apart” makes you wonder why these stories aren’t made into movies. We don’t really need to turn non-black characters into black characters when there are plenty of good stories with already existing black characters to tell.
100%
I’ve heard Daryl Davis say it should be spread out into the Grand American History where it belongs, that’s the only opinion I’ve seen against it that wasn’t red-hatted
Learning about Black historical figures like Robert Smalls who aren’t taught in US history classes is endlessly fascinating, there’s no legitimate reason to object to Black History for Month for anyone who isn’t invested in whitewashing American history
Hell yea!
Them: CRT is Marxism!
Me: yep 👍
As a caucasoidal person, I love Black history month. Seems like more or less everything cool about the us&a is from Black people (more or less) and I love learning about it!
I’m as white a white dude can possibly white, and think learning history has value. Especially history we don’t want to repeat, like segregation, the US history of native American genocide, slavery, the holocaust, etc etc etc.
It baffles me when people DON’T want to learn about this stuff. Do you WANT it to repeat? Oh, they do….
But what about all the great contributions by black people to art and the sciences! Don’t you want to learn about those, to challenge your notions and prejudices? Oh, they don’t…
Ok, but SURELY you’re not taking offense to just spending a LITTLE effort to support historically marginalized people? I mean, they literally have to do nothing other than not get involved in something. Oh, that’s impossible for them because they have to be the center of attention or they feel oppressed..
Well good thing it’s black history month, so they can learn about ACTUAL oppression…..
I love how the sub is Twitter but the post is from Bluesky.
Learning about Daryl Davis is so god damn good, too. Mf turned hundreds of KKK members around while bonding over music and just talking to them like normal people.
The blue print for revolution.
>“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, – a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, – a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, – and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
THANK YOU.
Every time slavery and colonialism come up its maddening how some people will say “Um acktually, Black people were slavers too and arguably worse than the White people…” Sis, you don’t need to make excuses for things evil White people did in the past. And if you feel the need to it says a lot about where your sympathies lie.
Yep
As a white dude. Throughout my life, every single person I’ve met who is against black history month has been a dog shit person