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Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and race issues is a key unifying link between the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement: the labor- and civil-rights-based work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist platform associated with Malcolm X.
This guy's head is pretty bulbous. Fyi, Malcolm X was a terrorist.
man, confusing.
i wonder what black history month is trying to accomplish and what it has accomplished and if the two are the same.
me, i went to the ghetto catholic school in my city and my kid went to a very predominantly (95%) black public school and no one made a big deal out of black history month at my son's school, and i would visit all the time. no big deal.
what i see reading these threads though is a devisiveness that need not occur over our acknowledgement of the contributions of good americans. that to me ain't what black history month is supposed to be about.
the whole thing is beginning to strangle up my mind.
all this stuff should really begin at home anyway. teachers will teach the accepted version of history no matter what and all the kids will see is the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. being non-violent and they will miss the malcolm X standing behind him that made that non-violent resistance work.
so my son is 7 y.o. and his mom comes to pick him up for visitation and we get along sometimes so i take them to the indian cultural center and there was a guided kids tour so we sloop in. the woman comes to a display of a great chief of nez pierce and asks "do any of you boys or girls know who this is?" and my kid raises his hand and chirps out "Hinmatoowyalahtket" (hin-ma-to-ya-lat-ket) and the docent lady starts to mist up and she says to him "thank you. i have worked here 17 years and no one has called him by his native name." i was kinda proud because i taught him to respect those native names...and i think we should be teaching those things to our kids about all people. please, forgive me for bragging about the guy..
hell, my son could sit down and discuss the differences in political philosophy and social strategies between bobby seale and huey newton and ya ain't gonna learn that during black history month even if you and toto aren't in kansas anymore and are plopped down on the other side of the bay bridge.
siochain, mo cairde, ach ni gan saoirse.
man, confusing.
i wonder what black history month is trying to accomplish and what it has accomplished and if the two are the same.
me, i went to the ghetto catholic school in my city and my kid went to a very predominantly (95%) black public school and no one made a big deal out of black history month at my son's school, and i would visit all the time. no big deal.
what i see reading these threads though is a devisiveness that need not occur over our acknowledgement of the contributions of good americans. that to me ain't what black history month is supposed to be about.
the whole thing is beginning to strangle up my mind.
all this stuff should really begin at home anyway. teachers will teach the accepted version of history no matter what and all the kids will see is the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. being non-violent and they will miss the malcolm X standing behind him that made that non-violent resistance work.
so my son is 7 y.o. and his mom comes to pick him up for visitation and we get along sometimes so i take them to the indian cultural center and there was a guided kids tour so we sloop in. the woman comes to a display of a great chief of nez pierce and asks "do any of you boys or girls know who this is?" and my kid raises his hand and chirps out "Hinmatoowyalahtket" (hin-ma-to-ya-lat-ket) and the docent lady starts to mist up and she says to him "thank you. i have worked here 17 years and no one has called him by his native name." i was kinda proud because i taught him to respect those native names...and i think we should be teaching those things to our kids about all people. please, forgive me for bragging about the guy..
hell, my son could sit down and discuss the differences in political philosophy and social strategies between bobby seale and huey newton and ya ain't gonna learn that during black history month even if you and toto aren't in kansas anymore and are plopped down on the other side of the bay bridge.
siochain, mo cairde, ach ni gan saoirse.
Yes. I dont understand why someone would get upset at or disagree with BHM. To me its simply a month to hear about some people that others may have not heard about. How that is divisive is beyond me. The only thing that keeps coming to mind is the jealousy you may see exhibited by toddlers when you praise one but not the other. This is even if you praised the neglected toddler earlier that morning for an hour. Personally I think everyone should have a particular month were the accomplishments of a specific ethnicity is highlighted. My only knock on BHM is that the emphasis is always put on slavery and jim crow. We need to hear a lot more about the Malcolms, the Garveys, Imhoteps, the empires of Ghana etc.
Then the KKK isn't racist.I'm proud I share a genetic likeness with those people. If you want to be proud you have two hands then thats your prerogative. It wouldn't bother me at all. It makes sense to me. Does that make sense to you?
The KKK will tell you themselves they are racist, they pride themselves on it. You are the dumbest motherfucker on this site hands down.
Then the KKK isn't racist.
The KKK will tell you themselves they are racist, they pride themselves on it. You are the dumbest motherfucker on this site hands down.
Blacks are just as racist as the KKK. BHM is race based, thus racist.