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... the other Black experience
IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys need to celebrate this. Don't be apathetic. It does matter if for no other reason the fact that "WE" didn't have any reason to celebrate in the past.
Hey, you! Yeah, I mean you. Before you write your nasty little comment about "Blah, blah, blah I don't think that....Blah, blah, blah, who are you to tell me" stop drop and roll you silly cyber pickaninny.
Celebrate yourself if nothing else. Learn about your family history. Do some research on your people. Go ask some old black people how things used to be. You got somethings to be proud of whether you realize it or not.
Get of your hands NEGROES and GROW!
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Permalink Reply by Civilized Radical Films on -
Yes. I will. HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH TO ALL!!!
*Currently reading: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.....for the 1st time.....*
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♥ said:365 days a year I'm celebrating, researching and growing.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on -
This. I made this huge deal in high school about why we shouldn't be exotifying "minority history" like womens' history, hispanic history and black history. It's all history and exotifying it diminishes it's importance as history. It shouldn't be a topic for just a month- it should be a topic all the time and it doesn't need to be "separated" from other history because it's firmly apart of history.
If my posts in the beautiful black women thread are any indication I'm always looking for forgotten faces and forgotten pioneers. The thing that bothers me is that people think things are new (especially the races socially mixing) when it's true that nothing is new.
This month I'm supposed to be wrapping up genealogy (because it's always black history month for me) but I can't make any promises.
♥ said:365 days a year I'm celebrating, researching and growing.
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Permalink Reply by Wheredawhitewomenat on -
Hooray for the month of trivia
Hate me more.
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on -
Mlle d. Sade said:This. I made this huge deal in high school about why we shouldn't be exotifying "minority history" like womens' history, hispanic history and black history. It's all history and exotifying it diminishes it's importance as history. It shouldn't be a topic for just a month- it should be a topic all the time and it doesn't need to be "separated" from other history because it's firmly apart of history.
If my posts in the beautiful black women thread are any indication I'm always looking for forgotten faces and forgotten pioneers.
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^^ Exactly how I feel about it. I used to chalk it up to a generation gap, but I've no concrete proof of that. No ill will towards anyone who does want to celebrate a month's worth of anybody's history, but the "dividers" shouldn't be there in the first place. I find the notion that I should be "grateful" for BHM just a tad insulting, really...
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Permalink Reply by CocoaPuss Zine on -
i think i would be more willing to celebrate if there wasn't so much goddamn spoken word during this time of the year. like mlle said, there are lots of forgotten women and men who are black that we know nothing about, so yeah i'll try to look at some of their stuff, but i'm over mlk and x and that's all i hear about. i'm really trying hard to not be apathetic but i'm a black woman and black history month usually doesn't include my kind. perhaps i will celebrate myself, and my grandma.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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lol. We should be grateful that they even *gave* us month to be proud of ourselves in, some minorities only get a week or a day. What is the definition of irony? Is there even a word for how insulting that is?
Rage_Proletaire said:^^ Exactly how I feel about it. I used to chalk it up to a generation gap, but I've no concrete proof of that. No ill will towards anyone who does want to celebrate a month's worth of anybody's history, but the "dividers" shouldn't be there in the first place. I find the notion that I should be "grateful" for BHM just a tad insulting, really...
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
I love my mom all year long but I go out of my way to get her gifts on her birthday. Happy Black History Month. It's about celebrating YOU becuase your history matters.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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I missed your post earlier. But yeah, the absence of the black woman and all the forgotten black women whose feats of strength back in the day were REALLY impressive (and could empower the forgotten/overlooked modern black woman or girl) REALLY bothers me.
Even black history month falls into the category of HIStory. It's very male oriented and told almost entirely from the perspective of males. Sure, they'll throw some Rosa Parks in there or some Harriet Tubman but they never really focus on women as equal parts of a whole just as little side stories.
CocoaPuss Zine said:i think i would be more willing to celebrate if there wasn't so much goddamn spoken word during this time of the year. like mlle said, there are lots of forgotten women and men who are black that we know nothing about, so yeah i'll try to look at some of their stuff, but i'm over mlk and x and that's all i hear about. i'm really trying hard to not be apathetic but i'm a black woman and black history month usually doesn't include my kind. perhaps i will celebrate myself, and my grandma.
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Permalink Reply by Fashionfreak on -
*fist in the air*
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on -
I'm gonna celebrate my own version. Which just means the Black folks I REALLY admire and appreciate.
Regular folks and celebrity folks who done something cool.
Do your OWN version of celebrating and being proud to be Black. Your OWN definition of what it is to be Black.
I ain't talking about the normal stuff. Hell, go see some band that features some Black talented musicians.
Extend this to writers you like the works of, artists who do some cool creative shit, people you actually KNOW who are doing something REALLY great that YOU PERSONALLY admire and value.
Dont' matter who they are....wrestlers, writers, singers, poets, the nice lady and man outside who are supporting their life quite well by running and owning the local store/service shop you patronize (yes, I mean you two the couple outside dressed all sharp in your uniforms that have been selling hand roasted nuts with a COOL bright sign advertising your wares out front of my office building every week.... and you probably are employing one other person in this economy. RIGHT ON.), that cool lady who makes some REALLY nice hand made clothes at the farmer's market, the awesome fine dude who works at the tattoo parlor, the dude working hard and actually smiling at you at the cash register at Trader Joe's market, the little kids who are at the fruit stand at the market on Sundays helping their mom selling produce their family farm grows up north, those homegirls who sell some really great custommade tshirts and jewelry at the swap meet, the chicks you know who on the side of their fulltime jobs and school are writing books and zines too, some relatives of yours you actually LIKE what they are all about, the folks here on AfroPunk.
You know, pick 'em yourself. Celebrate that you're Black and proud of the good things about all of you and have accomplished.
Don't make it trivia. Make it relevant to YOU. Who else matters really but you..............you have to live your life inside yourself and outside yourself by yourself, even in a crowded room. Go inside yourself and your mind and decide what Black folks are important to YOU. And celebrate them in your own way. Do what you like!!
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