Black History Month; a double standard

          Black history month the double standard.....

Black history month was started by Dr. Carter G Woodson. The celebration began with Black history day then on to Black history week ,then finally it became a month long celebration. Urban legend has it that the shortest month of the year was given but this is not true. February was chosen to for the Black history month because Fredrick Douglass as well as Abraham Lincoln both have birthdays in this month. See our sources.....

ack history month has been high jacked by the upper class highly educated Black folks (the Black bourgeoisie). We speak very little about the washer women, Pullman porters, the jitneys, all the folks who held it down for Black development. The real Black history is a story of achievement through sorrow. Hallelujah anyhow, we do a disservice hiding our faces from the harsh realities that life presented. Black history is a grotesque tapestry of struggle and pain adorned with lofty victories.

Respected historians say that the pages of  Black history are the missing pages of world history. African American history is filled with challenges and circumstances that we hope to never see again. Black people have achieved some of the most distinguished positions in our society. Our people have been inventors, poets, soldiers, doctors and the list goes on and on. If we are honest though many African Americans found themselves degraded, cast out, beaten, also burned, maimed or killed.  There is no way to reconcile the two very distinct instances of American life.






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Have you forgotten the sufferings of those who sacrificed their lives their dignity and self-respect?  Do we dare undermine the legacy of longsuffering by neglecting to look upon those gruesome images?  Have we become so cultured that we forget those who paved the way? Innocent blood was shed many times simply for entertainment.  We must not celebrate our Thurgood Marshalls our Frederick Douglass, and our Shirley Chisolm’s without remembering those scores of unnamed graves where the ancestors lay.

If we believe that the images of black suffering are so intolerable to look upon, what must it have felt like to have had to endure such a time.  For that reason alone, you should take the time to look back at the sufferings that made black successes possible. Do you only celebrate Black success in your brand of black history?