Terrible Start To Black History Month

[jaybags]

'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicide - latimes.com

a true american innovator. at least he went out with a bang

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicide - latimes.com

a true american innovator. at least he went out with a bang

WTF is there even a black history month?

 

[syrenn]

Freeman On Black History - 60 Minutes - CBS News

 

[ClosedCaption]

'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicide - latimes.com

a true american innovator. at least he went out with a bang

WTF is there even a black history month?

 

[Warrior102]

One wonders -

What's with "BLACK" history month?
Aren't we all Americans?
Why bring race into it?
What next - Middle Eastern history month?


What have they contributed, less 9/11 for sure?

 

[jaybags]

doesnt anyone on this site have a sense of humor

 

[Steelplate]

When's whit history month?
This Black History Month - why so devisive??
Aren't we all Americans?
What next - Middle Eastern history month? What have they contributed, less 9/11

Big Walt Whit-man fan, are we? We get WHITE History month for the other 11 out of the year.

 

[ClosedCaption]

doesnt anyone on this site have a sense of humor

Yeah, it was a pretty good joke tho

 

[Warrior102]

Big Walt Whit-man fan, are we? We get WHITE History month for the other 11 out of the year.

Is that a national holiday, numb nuts?
Not showing up on my calendar.
Fucking idiot

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicide - latimes.com

a true american innovator. at least he went out with a bang

WTF is there even a black history month?

Ok.... WHY THE FUCK is there even a black history month?

Clearer?

 

[Warrior102]

Don Cornelius - or however you spell his name
Loved the guy
Cool, totally 70s - an icon of the decade.
How does his death (suicide) fuck-up BLACK history month?
The dude shot himself - cowardly way out. Must have been seriously fucked-up in the head, but let's not spoil the whole month on his stupid act.

 

[tinydancer]

I loved Don. Sorry I am going to take this right out of the political zone.

Soul train was awesome. Thanks buddy. I'm dancing in my living room to it. God bless your soul old friend.

Soul train. do the boogie babies. He was such a good man.

 

[jaybags]

Don Cornelius - or however you spell his name
Loved the guy
Cool, totally 70s - an icon of the decade.
How does his death (suicide) fuck-up BLACK history month?The dude shot himself - cowardly way out. Must have been seriously fucked-up in the head, but let's not spoil the whole month on his stupid act.

because don was black. and soul train will go down in american history as the greatest dance show eva!

 

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WTF is there even a black history month?

Ok.... WHY THE FUCK is there even a black history month?

Clearer?

The story of Black History Month begins in Chicago during the
late summer of 1915. An alumnus of the University of Chicago with
many friends in the city, Carter G. Woodson traveled from
Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois.
Thousands of African Americans traveled from across the country to
see exhibits highlighting the progress their people had made since the
destruction of slavery. Awarded a doctorate in Harvard three years
earlier, Woodson joined the other exhibitors with a black history display.

Despite being held at the Coliseum, the site of the 1912 Republican
convention, an overflow crowd of six to twelve thousand waited
outside for their turn to view the exhibits. Inspired by the three-week
celebration, Woodson decided to form an organization to promote the
scientific study of black life and history before leaving town. On
September 9th, Woodson met at the Wabash YMCA with A. L. Jackson
and three others and formed the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History (ASNLH).

snip

In the 1940s, efforts began slowly within the black community to expand the study of black history in the schools and black history celebrations before the public. In the South, black teachers often taught Negro History as a supplement to United States history. One early beneficiary of the movement reported that his teacher would hide Woodson’s textbook beneath his desk to avoid drawing the
wrath of the principal. During the Civil Rights Movement in the South, the Freedom Schools incorporated black history into the curriculum to advance social change. The Negro Historymovement was an intellectual insurgency that was part of every larger effort to transform race relations.

The 1960s had a dramatic effect on the study and celebration of black history. Before the decade was over, Negro History Week would be well on its way to becoming Black History Month. The shift to a month-long celebration began even before Dr. Woodson death. As early as 1940s, blacks in West Virginia, a state where Woodson often spoke, began to celebrate February as Negro History Month. In Chicago, a now forgotten cultural activist, Fredrick H. Hammaurabi, started celebrating Negro History Month in the mid-1960s. Having taken an African name in the 1930s, Hammaurabi used his cultural center, the House of Knowledge, to fuse African consciousness with the study of the black past. By the late 1960s, as young blacks on college campuses became increasingly conscious of links with Africa, Black History Month replaced Negro History Week at a quickening pace. Within the Association, younger intellectuals, part of the awakening, prodded Woodson’s organization to change with the times. They succeeded. In 1976, fifty years after the first celebration, the Association used its influence to institutionalize the shifts from a week to a month and from Negro history to black history. Since the mid-1970s, every American president, Democrat and Republican, has issued proclamations endorsing the Association’s annual theme.

http://www.asalh.org/blackhistorymonthorigins.html

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Ok.... WHY THE FUCK is there even a black history month?

Clearer?

The story of Black History Month begins in Chicago during the
late summer of 1915. An alumnus of the University of Chicago with
many friends in the city, Carter G. Woodson traveled from
Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois.
Thousands of African Americans traveled from across the country to
see exhibits highlighting the progress their people had made since the
destruction of slavery. Awarded a doctorate in Harvard three years
earlier, Woodson joined the other exhibitors with a black history display.

Despite being held at the Coliseum, the site of the 1912 Republican
convention, an overflow crowd of six to twelve thousand waited
outside for their turn to view the exhibits. Inspired by the three-week
celebration, Woodson decided to form an organization to promote the
scientific study of black life and history before leaving town. On
September 9th, Woodson met at the Wabash YMCA with A. L. Jackson
and three others and formed the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History (ASNLH).

snip

In the 1940s, efforts began slowly within the black community to expand the study of black history in the schools and black history celebrations before the public. In the South, black teachers often taught Negro History as a supplement to United States history. One early beneficiary of the movement reported that his teacher would hide Woodson’s textbook beneath his desk to avoid drawing the
wrath of the principal. During the Civil Rights Movement in the South, the Freedom Schools incorporated black history into the curriculum to advance social change. The Negro Historymovement was an intellectual insurgency that was part of every larger effort to transform race relations.

The 1960s had a dramatic effect on the study and celebration of black history. Before the decade was over, Negro History Week would be well on its way to becoming Black History Month. The shift to a month-long celebration began even before Dr. Woodson death. As early as 1940s, blacks in West Virginia, a state where Woodson often spoke, began to celebrate February as Negro History Month. In Chicago, a now forgotten cultural activist, Fredrick H. Hammaurabi, started celebrating Negro History Month in the mid-1960s. Having taken an African name in the 1930s, Hammaurabi used his cultural center, the House of Knowledge, to fuse African consciousness with the study of the black past. By the late 1960s, as young blacks on college campuses became increasingly conscious of links with Africa, Black History Month replaced Negro History Week at a quickening pace. Within the Association, younger intellectuals, part of the awakening, prodded Woodson’s organization to change with the times. They succeeded. In 1976, fifty years after the first celebration, the Association used its influence to institutionalize the shifts from a week to a month and from Negro history to black history. Since the mid-1970s, every American president, Democrat and Republican, has issued proclamations endorsing the Association’s annual theme.

History of Black History Month

So... tell me again why we need a black history month?

 

[Ed Spacer]

One wonders -

What's with "BLACK" history month?
Aren't we all Americans?
Why bring race into it?
What next - Middle Eastern history month?


What have they contributed, less 9/11 for sure?

This is what ive been saying all along. We are all americans,and this is socialist liberal race divisioning.

 

[MarcATL]

One wonders -

What's with "BLACK" history month?
Aren't we all Americans?
Why bring race into it?
What next - Middle Eastern history month?


What have they contributed, less 9/11 for sure?

Because blacks have an intricate and important role in American history that somehow gets ignored and swept under the rug in the American public schools...and private for that matter.

One has to literally major in African American studies in college to find out what contributions Blacks made to this country and the world in general.

What did Middle Easterners have to do with the development of this country I ask you?

 

[Steelplate]

Big Walt Whit-man fan, are we? We get WHITE History month for the other 11 out of the year.

Is that a national holiday, numb nuts?
Not showing up on my calendar.
Fucking idiot

Wow... you get the month off for Black History? Fucking idiot.

 

[Ernie S.]

I want German History Month and anyone who refuses is a racist!

 

[ClosedCaption]

Why do we NEED history at all, right?