Why is there a Black History Month but not a White History Month?

I gotta agree, she should not be allowed to multiply.

 

Fuck

 

You must be younger than I thought. From the 50s I only remember seeing the Nat King Cole show a couple of times. And Rochester, Jack Benny's butler.

 

Wait just a dang minute there young fella!

Cain't call Presidents Day a white holleeday no more.

 

I am entirely re-watching The Wire again this February, as I do every February, to catch up on Black History.

 

Dumb examples, and nobody except the government celebrats Columbus Day anymore.

 

Never missed an episode.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058816/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

 

Oh, so you need to downplay all of the black shows. Well, I was just getting warmed up. There was also Julia, Good Times, Fat Albert, What's Happening, Hanging with Mr. Cooper, sister sister, Oprah, Kennan and Kal, the NBA, Sammy Davis Jr and the Sinbad show.

No Black TV shows.......get outta here.....

 

In the 50's and 60's you had Julia and Beluah. In 1950, only 10% of the population was black, and probably only about 15 black people in the nation had TVs. So what would be the sense in making a TV shows that target such a small % of the population? Political Correctness hadn't been invented back then.

If you're so worried about watching black people on TV, by all means, watch BET, order the collection of "Girlfriends" on DVD....

 

In 2011, only 13% of the population was black.

17% were Latino. I don't recall a Latino TV show on the major networks since Hey Pablo and the George Lopez Show were 15 years apart.

 

ugh. go ahead and pick that bone, buddy. i think your thoughts need some... clarification.

 

Wow, I didn't realize that Black History Month was such a hot-button issue. What harm is really coming from a symbolic appreciation for a minority group? It's a celebration that has largely become a joke for suburban white teenagers to toast 40's to anyway.

Does it really bug ya'll that much that we take the time to acknowledge those that overcame and endured the torment of a government that vilified them based on their skin tone? That was a dark era in American history, and it wasn't that long ago. How some of you feel that Bill Cosby having a TV show somehow means that we should completely forget the struggles that the government and majority of the population forced upon the African American population is beyond me.

In terms of racial holidays though, I find the way that MLK Day is evolving to be increasingly disturbing. My grandfather was a civil rights leader from Missouri who worked closely with MLK and several other prominent civil rights activists, but the MLK Day holiday should not be about a single man but rather a movement. Our nation sees MLK Day as a day to remember MLK first and remember the movement secondarily. MLK has become deified by the media, as if he's to black people what Jesus is to Christians, and that's honestly a nauseating concept.

 

Interesting items i learned in college ethnic studies classes.

White people dont know what racism is because we are the majority, not a minority.

Yea, me dating an indian girl who hung out with mostly indians didnt subject me to racism when all the dudes treated me like shit because im white.

White males are the worst and are the key to racism.

Here is an idea, why dont we stop talking about race and racism so everyone just moves on and treats each other as people

 

... Eliminating black history month would help accomplish this.

Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, and D.C. have a higher population of "minorities" than white people, and eventually, though not in any of our lifetimes, this will be the case throughout the United States. Racism will become a smaller and smaller problem. Unfortunately, bigotry will never go away.