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basically anybody extending Black History month beyond 28 days and reminding people that black history is US history and that it doesn’t make sense to have any
by vmception 4y ago
basically anybody extending Black History month beyond 28 days and reminding people that black history is US history and that it doesn’t make sense to have any race-history months if US history was taught more accurately. (It includes other heritages too, Black American community is just more organized to more effectively spearhead representation pushes.)
Conservatives news sources spend alot of air time on the idea of this happening than reality. The general idea is that they don’t like unpleasant history for their children, that they preemptively call revisionist. This has now become a boogeyman in conservative leaning states and affecting real world things.
- zozbot234 4y ago> reminding people that black history is US history Perhaps we should also remind people that there's plenty of black folks outside the U.S. too. U.S. history is only a tiny, even negligible fraction of history taken as a whole.
- vmception 4y agoWhy? We are talking about Black Americans and US history. The post was pretty clear about which subsets we are talking about, the adjectives used (black American) were very intentional. We have international history courses as well. Most countries focus on their own history for sake of time.