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Black History Month:
(Do you know who you
are?)
Tell me something: if, as is
often said, "The truth will out," and "The truth will set
you free," why is it that the U.S.A. continues to perpetuate
The Big White Lie that February - the shortest month of the
year - represents some sort of separate "history" and
that "Black" history deserves only a grudgingly gratuitous -
albeit not very important - part of national attention?
Why are "World" history and
"American" history taught as though they are separate
entities in and of themselves when the truth is that they
are part of "Black" history and not - as implied by
the expression "Black History Month," the other way around.
"American" history and "World"
history are "Black" history and it is long past time
for this particular and vital truth to be told and told and
taught!
Not a moment longer should the
white supremacist, hegemonic, lying european colonialist
system of continuously miseducating unsuspecting hueman
beings be allowed to formally perpetuate The Big White Lie:
the myth of superiority of white skin and the myth of
inferiority of observable skin melanin. No more "Black stay
back!"
If indeed "The truth will out"
- let it be right now: if "The truth will set you free" -
then let the people be set free once and for all by the
public - continuing - acknowledgement (maybe a decree by
that mostly all-white Congress of the United States of
America) that not only are all huemans 'of Black African
ancestry,' but that "World" and "American" history are
'Black' history and that it is no longer necessary to
counterproductively and coloristically divide
history into 'Yellow,' 'Brown,' 'Tan,' 'Olive,' 'white,' or
'Black' history!
I can hear the screeching now
from the miseducated masses - (irrespective of what color
they may be) - "Oh no! We've fought so hard for recognition
as hueman beings and to have 'our own' existence acknowleged!
Don't do away with Black Hisory Month - we need
it!"
No we don't. And we don't
need Black history to be incorporated into other-color
histories: actually, "World" and "American" history should
be incorporated into their parent, originating history -
Black that is!
However, the obvious question
from those who've somehow escaped from their U.S.A.
miseducational, racist/colorist conditioning is: "Exactly
what is meant by 'we' nd 'our own?' If, as has been
scientifically-proven, all huemans are part of the
Black African diaspora - all African - then doesn't it stand
to reason tht 'we' and 'our' is 'us?'
Alla' we is ONE! 'We' have
but ONE history and 'our' most distant ancestors were Black.
Isn't it time to tell all the
children the truth? 'Come together - right now'... nd be
free!'
**In
fact, people who use these terms are - perhaps unwittingly -
perpetuating the very racism/colorism some of them profess
to dislike. |
