The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery and torture and the like, and ignores the work of all the good white folk through the years who were nice to black people (did you know it was a white teacher who first suggested George Washington Carver study horticulture?).
Matt TaibbiTags: black-history-month
I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.
Matt TaibbiTags: black-history-month
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
AberjhaniTags: life inspiration history humanity philosophy victory creativity horror balance african-americans national-history-day black-history-month harlem-renaissance jazz-age
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
AberjhaniTags: diversity americans poem-in-your-pocket-day national-poetry-month multiculturalism world-poetry-day poets-and-poetry national-history-day black-history-month contemporary-poetry multiculturalismo american-identity american-poets contemporary-authors contemporary-poets writers-and-writing
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
AberjhaniTags: equality justice racism race-relations multiculturalism african-americans human-rights-day black-history-month trayvon-martin african-american-men antiracism darren-hunt eric-garner george-zimmerman kajieme-powell killing-of-black-men-in-america michael-brown post-racial-america race-and-racism-in-america tamir-rice
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
AberjhaniTags: racism black-history-month trayvon-martin african-american-men antiracism george-zimmerman race-and-racism-in-america american-tragedies
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
AberjhaniTags: strength love humanity dreams courage faith hope spirituality leadership civil-rights-movement nonviolence american-history martin-luther-king-jr conflict-resolution african-americans human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings agape-love national-history-day famous-authors black-history-month nonviolent-conflict-resolution compassion-heals-lives great-leaders famous-speeches i-have-a-dream-speech martin-luther-king-day mlk-day mlkdream50 spiritual-visions voting-rights-act-of-1965
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
AberjhaniTags: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr black-history-month syrian-civil-war i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.
Albert B. Cleage Jr.Tags: religion black-history black-history-month black-nationalism
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