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Well to be honest, history was racist so ignoring it is your own form of ignorance.
Yes, in Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, out Sept. 27, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone analyzed 220 history textbooks from 1832 to the present day. Among his biggest takeaways, he found that textbooks mostly focused on national politics. Because African Americans were underrepresented in that arena, their stories were often left out. “There’s a very limited understanding of what history is,” Yacovone says.
The overwhelming majority of them treated the introduction of African Americans in American society as a “problem.” The further you go into the 20th century, this almost Evangelical theme of “the problem of a Negro” and how much he needed to be controlled because he was so inept and ignorant became the guiding theme of American history textbooks. After going through this whole collection, I thought, “Wow. This really isn’t a study of textbooks. It’s a study of national identity because the purpose of textbooks is to acculturate younger people into American ideals, American destiny, and what is valued and honored by Americans.” And what these books were saying well into the 1960s was that it’s a white man’s world.
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You can see only the bad parts and whine and moan if you want to.
Way to downplay your default qualities. 

What could you possibly understand about fighting racial-oppression aside from the virtue-signaling you do by crying about Wylted’s offensive comments? 


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Either we include Hispanic, Native American, Indian, White, and Asian month along with Black History month,
Or we get rid of these months and stop dividing races into certain months. 
Black History Month isn’t popular because people care about racism.
White SJW’s flaunt this celebration so they get to feel better about themselves for doing literally nothing. Lol. 
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You know nothing of what I've done or what I've met and mingled with in my life.

I made a thread for others to post in celebrating black history and it's turned into a series of bitter vindictiveness.
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It is so racist so say this month is for whites btw.
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so ignoring it is your own form of ignorance.
So you have no comment about the intrinsic racism involved in purposely ignoring one or the other aspects of history that is objectively composed of both elements of tragedy and triumph. Instead you selectively promote one aspect while demoting the other depending on skin color. And then you call someone racist for pointing out that what you are doing is objectively racist.

Wrong is wrong, and skin color is no excuse for it.

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It is so racist so say this month is for whites btw.
Because it is. Lmao. 

It is a golden opportunity for fake white activists to enhance their status all in the name of “fighting racism.”

I made a thread for others to post in celebrating black history and it's turned into a series of bitter vindictiveness.
Nothing posted here qualifies as vindictive yet. 

The comments acknowledging the cherry-picking of which version of racism to ignore is probably the politest criticisms so far. 

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Like Morgan Freeman said…don’t relegate my history to a single month.

All history is our history. No single day, month or year belongs to anyone, nor should it be given to any single group of people either. 
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I see, so what months do you dedicate to black history? What days or weeks?
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I did not ask if you think you and others are being vindictive, I told you outright, you are being it.
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I see, so what months do you dedicate to black history? What days or weeks?
What part of my post didn’t you understand??? 

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And I told you outright that you’re wrong. 
But I’ll give you the chance to explain how we’re being vindictive. 
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That's probably because you're a fucking racist.
The bitches who scream “you’re a racist” the loudest, are the tied and TRUE racists. 

Truth ≠ racism. 

Never has. 

Never will. 
Anyone who calls a racist a racist is a racist...LOL...I didn't think you guys could get any dumber, but then, you do.


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Racist!
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Anyone who calls a racist a racist is a racist...LOL...I didn't think you guys could get any dumber, but then, you do.
Makes sense.
The creator of this thread clearly doesn't understand racism or know what it means to be vindictive.
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Educate us on what they mean.

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Doesn’t work that way. 
I’m not a racist. You ignant sumbitch. 
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What I think is actually sad is there was no real punishment given to the slave owners, no revenge lashing, no lynching of KKK, nothing really.

They basically got away with just going sorry bruh. These were people that force bred blacks and treated them like animals.
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Educate us on what they mean.
Explain how my comments constitute racism or vindictiveness.
Let's address those assumptions.
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@Sir.Lancelot
Where were you in the thread?

You came out of nowhere and suddenly said I was actually covertly racist and stuff.

Like if you didn't have vindictiveness kindly fuck off and don't talk about me in third person saying I don't know anything about racism or don't take the month seriously.

What have you done towards the betterment of black people? This question applies even if you are black. I want to understand exactly what high horse you are yourself sitting on to then explain the vindictiveness and bullshit in what you are saying.

It is undeniably racist to say black history month is about white people feeling better. It was made by and for blacks and yes, it is meant to encourage non-blacks, caucasian or not, to educate themselves.
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What I think is actually sad is there was no real punishment given to the slave owners, no revenge lashing, no lynching of KKK, nothing really.
Slave owners = African former slaves themselves you know. Not all of the tiny % of  southern slave owners were all white Europeans, didn’t ya know!?! 

And what about the slave collectors and seller sim Africa? Some of the most notorious ones were African females. 

Spanish and Dutch Captains and their crew who brought them here. What about them? 

KKK? Please. What about the Black Panthers and organized black crime families and gangs in the 70s? 

What about all the black murderers of innocent white people over the past four decades? 


They basically got away with just going sorry bruh. These were people that force bred blacks and treated them like animals.
And what do you think the leaders of the Kingdom of Ashanti and that female warrior tribe depicted in that The Woman King movie did when they captured their own countrymen and sold them into slavery? They didn’t feed them tea and crumpets for fucks sake. 

Your selective outrage is laughable. 
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 it is meant to encourage non-blacks, caucasian or not, to educate themselves.
So clearly the month is about re-educating racists. If you feel the need to be re-educated, the shoe fits.

The Hundreds of thousand white people in the north that died 150 years ago didn't need a "Black History Month" to know that black people are an important part of American society. Most people today do not either.

But do feel free to willingly participate in an event created by racebaiters for the purpose of re-educating white "racists"
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Where did I say they shouldn't get justice too?

One can have issue with something without elaborating on every instance of it.

I am particularly disgusted with Sri Lanka's corrupt government that has favoured one ethnicity over the other there for at least a half century now.

I am disgusted with Taliban rule in Afghanistan, many things are atrocious to me. I do not meed to list every single one every time. What a ridiculous and obtuse accusation to say I jave no other concerns just because I do not list them all.
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@RationalMadman
Where were you in the thread?

You came out of nowhere and suddenly said I was actually covertly racist and stuff.
I wasn't attacking your character by implying you're racist.
I was attacking your knowledge by calling you ignorant. 

One thinks you're a bad person, the latter just assumes you're stupid. 

Like if you didn't have vindictiveness kindly fuck off and don't talk about me in third person saying I don't know anything about racism or don't take the month seriously.
Is it vindictiveness or pointing out you're an idiot? 
Perhaps you wouldn't feel that way if you weren't so easy to pick a part. 

What have you done towards the betterment of black people? This question applies even if you are black. I want to understand exactly what high horse you are yourself sitting on to then explain the vindictiveness and bullshit in what you are saying.
Donated to charities, volunteered to build houses, voted, and helped fund homeless shelters in low-income communities in my area.
Not whine incessantly about people typing racist shit. 

Seeing as I asked you first, why haven't you answered?

But hey, at least you called out Wylted's racism. So I suppose that's sufficient enough. 

It is undeniably racist to say black history month is about white people feeling better. It was made by and for blacks and yes, it is meant to encourage non-blacks, caucasian or not, to educate themselves.
Racist to whom? Black or white people?

Regardless of the intent, Black History Month has attracted people like you pandering to a certain cause because it is the socially acceptable thing to do. That's why you say stupid shit like this,

I enjoy moments like this. I finally look like the guy with superior social skills for a moment.

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Where did I say they shouldn't get justice too?
It’s directly implied by your very specific narrow view of your divisive comment(s). 

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Slave owners = African former slaves themselves you know. Not all of the tiny % of southern slave owners were all white Europeans, didn’t ya know!?! 

And what about the slave collectors and seller sim Africa? Some of the most notorious ones were African females. 

Spanish and Dutch Captains and their crew who brought them here. What about them? 

KKK? Please. What about the Black Panthers and organized black crime families and gangs in the 70s? 

What about all the black murderers of innocent white people over the past four decades? 
This entire post is literally whataboutism. 
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What I think is actually sad is there was no real punishment given to the slave owners, no revenge lashing, no lynching of KKK, nothing really.
We are a nation of laws, you can't legally punish them, but after the civil war the south did suffer a lot and you did have slave owners being attacked in events such as Shay's rebellion. 

When I say you can't punish them, I mean individually. The north did punish the south in general in a lot of ways post war though
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America was one of the few countries who outlawed slavery out right. Other countries compensated slave owners and paid them to free their slaves. 
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This entire post is literally whataboutism. 
Exactly. The solution to black history propaganda is not white history propaganda. It's removing ALL the propaganda from the teaching of history.
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And? 

None of what I said is factually inaccurate.