African History Month

[rebelAfrika]

Just wanted to remind everybody that it's that time of the year.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ss...a/history.html

I know what SOME of yall are thinking...but don't shoot the messenger

[G.O.D.F.A.T.H.A.]

We won't shoot you because you are an Afrikan. The month of February is really intended for the zombies. On this forum board we have black history every day! Not just one short month. Its all good though. I can not down the zombies for trying to awaken their minds for one short month out of the whole year. Uhuru!

[rebelAfrika]

It's that time of year again

[JanayaX]

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
Carter Woodson (1875-1950)
on founding Negro History Week, 1926

[Im The Truth]

Has anyone (those who know Our history) noticed that majority (in some cases all) people learned about during Black History Month are/were Toms or are talked about exclusively in there Tom'in' days?

[rebelAfrika]

Has anyone (those who know Our history) noticed that majority (in some cases all) people learned about during Black History Month are/were Toms or are talked about exclusively in there Tom'in' days?

Yeah. Mostly toms, entertainers and athletes. Never scientists, conscious scholars, or freedom fighters.

[rebelAfrika]

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
Carter Woodson (1875-1950)
on founding Negro History Week, 1926

Thank you for contributing to this thread!

[rebelAfrika]

Has anyone (those who know Our history) noticed that majority (in some cases all) people learned about during Black History Month are/were Toms or are talked about exclusively in there Tom'in' days?

Yeah. Mostly toms, entertainers and athletes. Never scientists, conscious scholars, or freedom fighters.

Also...something else I noticed is that during Black History Month, there is a tendency for some of us to concentrate on the African experience in amerikkka exclusively. NO attention is payed to Africans in the Carribean and Latin Americas, Africans in Asia, Africans in europe, the Aboriginals of Austrailia and surrounding areas, or ESPECIALLY...Africans in AFRICA! I have even observed efforts by some to change "Black" history month into "African-AMERIKKKAN" history month. How sick is that? If you don't want to call it "African" history month, then fine...but "African-amerikkkan" history month is going in reverse!!! It removes all contact with the diaspora from the equation. "African-amerikkkan" history month makes "amerikkka" the dominant aspect of our history. If you are going to call African History Month "African-amerikkkan history month"...you might as well drop the "African" out of it and call it what it is that you REALLY want to acknowledge..."amerikkkkan" history.

[JanayaX]

Also...something else I noticed is that during Black History Month, there is a tendency for some of us to concentrate on the African experience in amerikkka exclusively. NO attention is payed to Africans in the Carribean and Latin Americas, Africans in Asia, Africans in europe, the Aboriginals of Austrailia and surrounding areas, or ESPECIALLY...Africans in AFRICA! I have even observed efforts by some to change "Black" history month into "African-AMERIKKKAN" history month. .

When do the majority of Black Americans pay attention to Africa if not something negative heck I haven't even seen anything on BET(bad example) on the situation in Darfur let alone the rest of africa.....