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Originally Posted by Young Sin
It's like this..... There's a MArtin Luther King Day Right...... Lincoln n Washington got days also.... N you give tha peaceful one his own day becasue he didnt wanna kill ya'll or move out the country..... if you really wanna make black people happy give Malcom X his own day...
You gave us Black History Month... In Feb. that's that shortest month ever..... want us to be happy bout that.. Give us a month like July or sumthin....
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This is sarcasm right? About having Black History Month in February and it being the shortest month. According to
Wikipedia, February was chosen because of the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Lincoln, two men who had great influence on black history. And the guy who chose it was Carter Godwin Woodson, a black man. So it's not like some guy randomly picks a month and says this a month we celebrate ______. It actually has significance.
If you want a longer month, you should go to the UK, where they celebrate theirs in October, so you'll get your 31 days. I'm too lazy to do my research, but I'm wondering why they celebrate it. That paragraph in Wikipedia about how Morgan Freeman says he doesn't want a black history month because he believes that as long as people keep on identifying themselves by skin color there will always be racism, is so true. One day in the distant future, everyone will be the same color and racism will be no more. It'll get there eventually.. didn't you see the Matrix? Then people will just argue about religion