Black History Month Still Relevant?

I hung out with a Mexican and a Puerto Rican tonight, they\'re not black but still not white folks like clips says, how many white folks do you hang out with?

[clips]

mj..it\'s not about how many white people i hang out with....and i\'m not screamin anything near "black power"..:rolleyes:...i just feel that the month is justified to a degree. And i believe i explained that perfectly in my very first post. Y\'know how alot of you white folk like to say..."never forget 911",...well to some afri. americans..slavery, the racial inequalities of yesterday and today are some things we tend not to forget...

i think titan is the only one that gets it..i\'m not asking for reparations or for ya\'ll to kiss our ass for that month, it\'s just a simple acknowledgement of a certain group for a month...mind you there are countless other ethnic months that america celebrates as well....

ultimately if they got rid of it would i be in an uproar?..absolutely not. I\'m sure there would be some that be irate, but i certaintly wouldn\'t be one of \'em....oh and uhm some of my best friends are white.........seriously tho i don\'t wanna drag this thing out...bottomline is that racism is gonna be here till the end of time and while it has gotten alot better, there is still room for improvement....

[Viper_Fujax]

you kinda countered urself in that u want americans to look at people without thinking about race, but u want black history month which pretty much puts notice to race.

I dont see any harm in black history month though. Granted we can learn about MLK and rosa parks without there being a month pointing people like them out and teaching about them, but i think there would be a much bigger uproar if they took it away than if they just let it be.

[clips]

well..i actually didn\'t say that america needed it..or that i wanted it...just that imo i thought it was justified to some extent...

Also, 9/11 is not a white-centric holiday. Poor example, that one.

-Dan

[videoholic]

True dat.  The muslims always say to remember 9/11 too.

[clips]

Originally posted by Eiksirf
Also, 9/11 is not a white-centric holiday. Poor example, that one.

-Dan

heh heh..you guys are unreal. Whether the comparison was bad or not, wasn\'t the point. I clearly thought you guys knew what i was tryin\' to say. the reason i say 911?...whelp i really couldn\'t come up with anything else that i\'ve heard white folk say regarding something to remember. WHY? because as a whole white folk never really had anything terrible happen to them or forced on them like slavery or the racial inequalities that occured since slavery was banished...

when i was livin\' in jersey and when i turned on the news everytime i turned around,..the cops in NY were brutally and fatally killin\' some minority. And guiliani at the time supported his cops no matter what, no matter how crooked or tainted the scenario was.....alot of that s**t went down when i was in jersey,..and that just happened only just recently in the late 90\'s..

So when 911 happened, all of a sudden we\'re all americans now and we have to stick together..yada, yada ,yada...911 was a tragic event, but there are reason\'s why that happened. heh while the cops of this nation(not all of \'em) where busy pullin\' over african americans for bulls**t..the terrorists were plannin\' s**t right under their nose....

so 911 took a little heat offa us for a minute(arab americans are catchin\' it now) but as soon as everybody got back into their comfort zone...it was back to business as usual.....

Maybe if you guys didn\'t commit so much crime police wouldn\'t be beating you!!!

[clips]

Originally posted by mjps21983
Maybe if you guys didn\'t commit so much crime police wouldn\'t be beating you!!!

well in alot of those scenarios the minority wasn\'t doing anything of that nature. In one scenario the cops somewhere in ny was lookin for somebody,..so they went this guys house...asked him for some ID so the guy went into his pocket to get his wallet and the cop screamed "HE HAS A GUN"..the cops in the surrounding area shot at the house 40 times...i think the guy got hit with like twelve of \'em....

my thing is that alot of white folk will say aw\' c\'mon that s**t happened years ago forget about it. Unless you\'ve experienced it you will never forget it. and how can you forget it when the s**t still goes on in 2006?

I\'m sure that\'s exactly how that happened, things like that tend to be fudged a little on all the details, but of course a minority ever gets shot its never the minority\'s fault. But hey thats your opinion. Minorities never do anything wrong to get shot at or arrested right?

[clips]

jesus...mj..did i ever say that minorities never do anything wrong? Seriously..do i have to explain that? I\'m clearly talkin\' about cases where because the person was black, he was treated unfairly,..and in this case it cost him his life....of course there are minorities who commit vicious crimes and should be punished for it. Sheeit when i see these car chases in california...the majority of the time it\'s a afri american weaving in out of lanes and can actually kill somebody with his recklessness.

I can understand anybody being frustrated and upset when they finally catch that individual. But you still have to remain professional about...yea i\'d throw him around on the car or slam him on the car...and cuff him but that\'s about it. you can\'t go around throwin hooks and jabs on suspect..no matter how heated the scene may get...

so yea mj whoever is doing anything terrible or is commiting crimes needs to be  jail mj, but that is not what we\'re talkin about at this moment, and it\'s getting a wee bit off track from the main topic, but there was a reason for it going a bit off track..


that guy rookie,.mookie whatever the f**k his name was..y\'know that old ass gang member that was executed on death row?i was amazed at how many celebrities came out to support him. me personally? i said let him fry...this cat was a cold blooded killer. from i heard he shot like four people in cold blood. and when he was alive he was tryin to say he was not part of that life anymore..yada yada,..but you know what...he wrecked countless lives of families members that he murdered and he  should respectively pay for it...

You act like white people never get mistreated though or anyone that is not a minority for that matter.

[clips]

Originally posted by mjps21983
You act like white people never get mistreated though or anyone that is not a minority for that matter.

there will always be asshole cops..no doubt everybody will get picked on at some time or another for whatever reason, the point is that you will never be treated differently specifically for the color of your skin...capeesh?.....buying a house, renting...job etc..

USA is such a young country, relatively.

Whatever form it takes, passing on of the nation\'s history is crucial.

Sometimes it\'s a good thing though to accent other elements or aspects of that history. In other words ; maybe this bhm should take a different form or go a bit low key for a while, otherwise it\'ll maybe have a counter productive effect for what it\'s meant to do.

What I\'m trying to say is that all you see on the news is white man beating down the black man, you would never see the black cop beating up a crook or vice versa, just like with the muslims, they can talk and say all the bullshit they want on al jazeera but someone writes some funny comics in Denmark and theres a shit storm about it.