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LegoMyLego27
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Seriously, im not being racist

I think this concept is silly. Why?

There is no White History Month, or Asian History month, making this promoting one race, and ignoring the others. You probably think im a racist? No, Morgan Freeman is black and he has my same philosophy on this subject, here is a quote from him

Freeman has publicly criticized the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying, "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no "white history month."


Is he racist, no because he said that about HIS OWN race!

Your view on this?
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EmperorPalpatine
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Don't forget about the Asians/Mexicans that worked on the railroads.

Don't forget about the Native Americans who nearly all died from disease and were forced to move to reservations.
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[quote=devsaupa]Don't forget about the Asians/Mexicans that worked on the railroads.[/quote]
[quote=EmperorPalpatine]Don't forget about the Native Americans who nearly all died from disease and were forced to move to reservations.[/quote]
They weren't necessarily forced to move. They could have stayed there. . .

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They could have stayed there. . .

If they gave up their way of life and were accepting of discrimination, then yes they could. Only about 10% did in the south during the removal.
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Sorry, I was one the road for a few days, so there is a lot of things that happened that I want to address. This might be a large post.

Majority can be defined in different ways. As far as I know in terms of race the majority was always the largest group, it didn't matter if they were 50% or not.


Normally I don't like to be stubborn about definitions, but "majority" is a very specific term. It means more than half, not greatest group. Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about that.

Would tend to disagree if you meant the religious based holidays such as Christmas, Easter etc. Religion isn't confined to race, and many Afro-Americans adopted it, and now, Christianity is quite a huge part of Black Culture.

By national holidays, I meant more along the lines of U.S. holidays. Like Columbus day, Washington day, thanksgiving, confederate memorial day (celebrated in 5 states, which I bet you can guess in... five guesses) etc. A month was probably an exaggeration.

If you want to have less racism, stop making everyone self conscious of &quotossible" racism.


Well, the thing is people do often act in a racist manner without really realizing it. I think that providing information that lets people be more conscious of the effects of their own actions is a good thing.

Yes, it was wrong. But we're done and past that now.


Just because we don't have slaves doesn't mean people aren't still racist. From one of my prior forum posts:

Banks are still practicing policies that are aimed at taking advatnage of black Americans. And they are still getting away with it. The New York Times found that " black households making more than $68,000 a year were nearly five times as likely to hold high-interest subprime mortgages as whites of similar or even lower incomes."

At Wells Fargo, loan officers have been reported as referring to "blacks as 'mud people' and to subprime lending as 'ghetto loans.'"

Their top producing loan officer stated: "Wells Fargo mortgage had an emerging-markets unit that specifically targeted black churches, because it figured church leaders had a lot of influence and could convince congregants to take out subprime loans."

And that is why Wells Fargo has been branded as a racist company and no longer exists. No wait, I mean they got over 25 billion dollars in government bailout and are now one of the biggest banks in the country. By the way, the case was dismissed by a judge in 2010.


They still have no months, even though they do get little communities/towns.


Two problems with this:
1) they do actually get their own months, as I have already said a few times.
2) What do you mean they "get" their own communities?

They weren't necessarily forced to move. They could have stayed there. . .


Are you kidding?
Really? ...Really?
In 1830 the U.S. enacted the Indian Removal Act. They were forcibly evicted, using the power of the U.S. army.

And to come back to Goumas, who raised some very good points and was promptly ignored:
As a matter of fact, most persons considered White today might not have been considered exactly White at some point in U.S. history, Italians, Irish, Greeks, Jews, Portuguese weren't always considered really white.
Racial identity is more of a culture than color.


Agreed, whiteness in general is a relatively recent concept. White people didn't really identify with all other white people in the past the way they do know. In the past a common white person wouldn't really draw any similarities (especially in terms of privilege) between himself and a member of the upper class in terms of their shared skin color.

Time Wise on the history of whiteness in the U.S. He's a little bit out there, and he puts a pretty obvious spin on everything, but its mostly based in historical fact. Its very interesting, at least. I've been to one of his talks, and he delivered it in a much less biased (and more humorous) manner.

Video.
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Am I the only one who noticed that the allotted "Black History Month" is the shortest month of the Year?

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Am I the only one who noticed that the allotted "Black History Month" is the shortest month of the Year?


Got to admit, I laughed at that.

On the flip-side, it's also the only month that is special once every four years.
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Normally I don't like to be stubborn about definitions, but "majority" is a very specific term. It means more than half, not greatest group. Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about that.


" In British English, majority and plurality are often used as synonyms"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
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