When will Black History Month be … history?
Apart from the bizarre notion that educators should set aside one month to salute the historical achievements of one race apart from and above the historical achievements of other races, Black History Month appears to omit a lot of Black history.
About slavery, do our mostly left-wing educators teach that slavery was not unique to America and is as old as humankind? As economist and author Thomas Sowell says: “More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than Blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after Blacks were freed in the United States.”
Are students taught that “race-based preferences,” sometimes called “affirmative action,” were opposed by several civil rights leaders? While National Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young supported a type of “Marshall Plan” for a period of 10 years to make up for historical discrimination, his board of directors refused to endorse the plan. In rejecting it, the president of the Urban League in Pittsburgh said the public would ask, “What in blazes are these guys up to? They tell us for years that we must buy (nondiscrimination) and then they say, ‘It isn’t what we want.'”
Do our left-wing educators, during Black History Month, note that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s celebrated New Deal actually hurt Blacks? According to Cato Institute’s Jim Powell, Blacks lost as many as 500,000 jobs as a result of anti-competitive, job-killing regulations of the New Deal. Powell writes: “The minimum wage regulations made it illegal for employers to hire people who weren’t worth the minimum because they lacked skills. As a result, some 500,000 blacks, particularly in the South, were estimated to have lost their jobs.”
Are students taught that gun control began as a means to deny free Blacks the right to own guns? In ruling that Blacks were chattel property in the Dred Scott case, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney warned that ruling otherwise would mean that Blacks could legally own guns. If Blacks were “entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens,” said Taney, “it would give persons of the Negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the union, the right … to keep and carry arms wherever they went … endangering the peace and safety of the state.”
Are students taught that generations of civil rights leaders opposed illegal immigration and raised questions about legal immigration? After the Civil War, Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass implored employers to hire Blacks over new immigrants. Twenty-five years later, Booker T. Washington pleaded with Southern industrialists to hire Blacks over new immigrants: “One third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. … To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South: Cast down your bucket where you are. Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your fireside.”
About illegal immigration, Coretta Scott King signed a letter urging Congress to retain harsh sanctions against employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. The letter said: “We are concerned … that … the elimination of employer sanctions will cause another problem — the revival of the pre-1986 discrimination against black and brown U.S. and documented workers, in favor of cheap labor — the undocumented workers.”
These are just a few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
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“They tell us for years that we must buy (nondiscrimination) and then they say, ‘It isn’t what we want.’””,,,,,,,,and they do NOT, they want to be able to discriminate in favor of people of color and take over our history and education facilities to that effect to the point where in 8 more years of their government rule, a special month will have to be designated as “White History” month, because none of our history will remain. Blacks fail to realize that the Democrats and their social Progressive redefinition of America has not only replaced many jobs blacks held with illegals, but have already replaced Blacks as the number two minority in the USA with Hispanics. It started with “Family planning” abortion mills where 80% of which are placed near or within black communities, then even after Katrina, Chocolate cites like New Orleans got rebuilt not with local unemployed black labor, but illegals who to this day crowd native blacks out of jobs and living space.
ANd will the TRUTH ever be taught? NOT as long as LIBTARD indoctrinators are in charge of schooling!
Do they teach about the Black slave owners in our country? Very interesting people that saw the opportunity of having a labor force under their control. Do they teach about the slave trade that is still going on today in our world? Do they talk about the Europeans brought to this country in servitude? How about children who were put out for bond to work on farms etc.? Just asking.
Hell, i doubt they would ever DARE to teach “blacks owned slaves too”.
What would happen if there was a “White History Month”? The screams from the so called Civil Rights Groups, the Fake News Media and the communists on the left, would be deafening, with calls of “systemic racism”. Oh, how I love to spell the word “hypocrites”? Such a fitting word, applicable to the left wing communists and their ilk.
We now live in a country totally ran by the “Socialist Democrat Party State”
3. Education — Take control of what people read and listen to —
take control of what children and young people learn in schools and colleges.
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers and Gestapo are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
During my time in the military, every time i even DARED ASK the question “Why can’t we just have a single DAY for White european history celebration“, i kept getting slapped down, by my chain of command.. reason – RACISM! “Whites are celebrated the entire year” they kept saying..
EXACTLY WHEN IS That celebration?? I’ve certainly not seen it, unless you’re on about WHITE WOMEN, being celebrated, during women’s history month.
Who sold them into slavery ??? What about Muslim slave traders ?? No but what they teach is we stole them. We came in the night and stole them. Why do you think they hate us so bad. ??? We came in t he night and stole them and put them into slavery . And it’s a deep hatred. I’ve worked with them I know and see how they hate us
Black African tribes were enslaving, abusing each other way before whites ever showed up on the scene, Just like local American Indian tribes who were scalping and enslaving each other for generations. The fact that Whites did it more efficiently, but more mercifully shows that culture matters more than skin culture and guns are more efficient than SPears or bows and arrows.They disparage Our White American Founders as racist, but ignore the fact that like CHicago Blacks today, more black Africans were killed by Shocka Zulu in South Africa than by White Colonials,
Every time i hear a black talk about ‘reparations’ for slavery, i ask them “So when you going to go after your OWN tribesmen, who were the ones who SOLD YOU into slavery, with Muslim slave traders?”
Not once, have they given an answer. Usually they get irate for me DARING to ask that.