Comments on: Black History Month – Say It Loud!

By: Brian Jenkins

Brian Jenkins — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:22:09 +0000

We are funny about our own culture because of how too many of us are taught it or told what it is. We are mad to seem angry, or just former slaves, and slavery is made to seem “not that bad”. So we are taught that it is an old conversation and not our culture.

After writing this particular blog, I got some push back, but hardly as much as the push back that I got after writing a blog about Kwanzaa. To many there is a fear of anything black, or that if we start to recognize our culture in the positive then people will realize that we are black and we will lose something. Its an “old” way that still carries on.

By: Gia

Gia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:05 +0000

I’d like to get feed back on a issue I encountered on Face Book. I am new on FB. I found all of my nieces & nephews on FB W/recently poked by my step sister. I have a journalistic educ & had been listening to radio & internet videos on Black History Month (BHM) & decided to post the bus ride video from this yrs Sundance on my FB wall…so I got this great idea, so I thought..to post several shakers, milestones, Harlem Renaissance entertainers, & some of the continued struggles (clips) & clips from YouTube in a Celebration of BHM..I thought it would be educational for my young family members…Well, most are in interrac marriage, love relationships, & work friends…and I can’t believe that I was snubbed, & everyone removed me as a friend!?..maybe this was the wrong forum…but I adjtd privacy to just friends only, then created a membership groups…and no one joined. I just cant believe the reaction. It appeared my nephew & cousin w/caucasion spouses got into arguments, they all seemed ashamed to have this come across their walls…I suppose it is a forum only for shout outs & parties. My mother’s family is from Mississippi & my grandpa movd his entire family (adlt childr) out (to Ohio) in 1950..& my grandma told us to never go there, as none of us have…their education was lacking, though were able to have finacly stable lives, & managed to get us all college educated, as we have our nxt genrtn. I created prvt grps (Celebr Grp, Bus Grp, Inspirn, etc) that reqd request to join (on my FB) no one joined!
Maybe I should have used a blog, but I will never be ashamed of our past.What are your thoughts on this…I am distraught! You may email me.

By: Brian Jenkins

Brian Jenkins — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:01:36 +0000

Very true, this is the one thing that isn’t taught, and should be taught during black history month!

By: Brian Jenkins

Brian Jenkins — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:00:42 +0000

I learned a lot too in doing the research for this blog. And you are right, the whole complaint about February being the shortest month just seems uninformed now…

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:14:30 +0000

Very informative blog. We need to understand our history in order to establish positive paths for our future. Not only should we celebrate and embrace Black History month, but we should know the origin of the celebration and share with our children. Thank you.

By: tamtamdoll

tamtamdoll — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:23:52 +0000

I actually learned something new concerning How Black History Month came about. I remember hearing someone complain about black History Month being in February (the shortest month of the year) but now that I know its origin, I can’t see a viable reason to complain since, I am assuming, it was Blacks who chose the month in the first place.

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uberVU - social comments — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:13:00 +0000

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