Poll- Is BLACK HISTORY MONTH racist?
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FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
@FreeSpirit1 The problem is that American history is currently taught--as it always has been--based on skin color. That's harder to perceive when you are part of that majority group. What's wrong with learning about the voyages of Columbus?
Or the pilgrims settling the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Or US westward expansion and "Manifest Destiny"? Nothing. But it's only part of our history. And to teach that without discussing the impact on indigenous populations is--precisely--to teach history based on skin color. The importance of Black History Month and similar events for other cultures, is that it lets their history be included as well--not to the exclusion of more familiar history, but alongside it. It's not "separate history"--it's including what's needed to provide a more complete history.
Or the pilgrims settling the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Or US westward expansion and "Manifest Destiny"? Nothing. But it's only part of our history. And to teach that without discussing the impact on indigenous populations is--precisely--to teach history based on skin color. The importance of Black History Month and similar events for other cultures, is that it lets their history be included as well--not to the exclusion of more familiar history, but alongside it. It's not "separate history"--it's including what's needed to provide a more complete history.
