(JJ) said:
i'm not saying at all that american history isnt centered around white men. as you said though, history is history. no matter how much the pc police may want to, they cant go through and color in all the textbook pictures of the white founding fathers and make em look black. but whatever, i just think that there's no reason why we cant say every month is AMERICAN history month? why does ANY ONE race need their own month? fair is fair. history is history. if black people want more holidays named after them, generate more great men and women who choose dates outside the month of february to do their good deeds. and yea, i know there's no good reasoning behind the other things. it just is. and we're all supposed to swallow it over and over and say "mmm" with a big smile on our faces. all i want is fairness. equality. as far as im concerned NO ONE is entitled to money from ANYONE based on race. give it to the ones most deserving, no matter what the race. i graduated hs with a perfect gpa at a 5A suburban accredited school and am paying out of my ass to go to a decent college. but im also a middle class white kid.
Black people don't celebrate black history month anymore than they celebrate groundhog day. I don't know why people make a big deal out of this. What actually happens during black history month anyway? Not a damn thing. The idea is stupid and patronizing and really more of a legacy from an older time. Now if black people were given the month off with pay for black history month, I'd say bring it on,
but really, it's just a token gesture. I don't think it means much to anyone, black or white.
oh it's most definitely fear. trust me. getting legitimately called racist is to be a social pariah for a length of time. and true, the naacp WAS necessary when it was started. but black people have now officially had 150 years since slavery was abolished. ive never met anyone 150 years old. so none of the slaves or slaveowners are left. id say that we all start on a reasonably level playing field. look at the asian population. 65 years ago, we put them in internment camps. now, as a population, they have the highest rate of all racial groups of college educated individuals. coincidence? i dont think so. either way, the naacp has become an outdated, obsolete, unnecessary organization that reminds everyone about the differences between blacks and everyone else. not helpful.
Number one, it's not about slavery. Racism didn't end with slavery. For many black guys in this forum, this sh*t isn't ancient history. Many of our parents didn't have basic rights. Our grandparents who are still alive remember not even being allowed to vote. So it's not exactly some distant memory. Remember it's was only several decades ago that blacks got basic rights. So saying slavery ended 150 years ago is not relevant. Now I'm not here by any means saying all black problems are the fault of whites. But by no means did racism just disappear because slavery ended. Also, you mentioned Asians, it wasn't all Asians, it was just Japanese and I'm not even sure it was even ALL of them. And on top of that, let's not forget that the Japanese that were interned ended up getting reparations for it, something that never happened for black slaves, even though it was promised that the slaves would be granted land for payment. I agree that the NAACP is outmoded.
i dont think anyone tries to fit into the stereotypes just for the sake of doing it. lets take the "ghetto thug hardass" persona as an example. this stereotype is perpetuated because these people are shown to be successful over and over. they achieve material wealth and rap about that wealth, as well as the women, drugs, and good times that come with it. and as the saying goes, people follow the money (and pvssy).
Most these "thugs" rapping aren't even thugs. It's just an image. About as fake as Milli Vanilli. They talk about all this gangsta stuff they do, yet they live in the suburbs. You think these gangsta making all this money are really living in the projects. It's an image that sells, and they're cashing in on it. People like to hear it, black people and white people. Most rap is bought by whites in fact. And these rappers tour Europe, Japan and all these places and worshiped like gods. People think this image is the real thing, but it's all an act when it comes down to it. Someone like Snoop Dogg may have been in a gang when he was young, but dude is now more likely to be partying with the wealthy while maintaining the "gangsta" image just to have street cred.
