+569 You've got to wonder why it's only a black history month. The Jews went through a hell of a lot more, and they don't get a month. The Native Americans were completely kicked out of their own country, and they don't get a month. This is one of the least complained about forms of racism, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's a good point but surely if these people want a month, they should start one. That's what black people did.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

do you know how much shit white people would get if we designated our own month? god forbid we be proud of our heritage, lest others blame us for being 'white supremacists'. and when i say being proud of our heritage, i mean being proud of the GOOD things we've done, not celebrating slavery or kicking native americans out, as people are likely to take that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, Native Americans do have a month.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a month???? (okay, that was a bit over reaching, I'm only 1/16th, but seriously there's one of those?)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Me too =D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

November

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hispanic also have a month. May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Balck History Month is just more popularized

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And November is Native American History month.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is black history month celebrated everywhere, or just in the US? Because blacks sure went through a hell of a lot here, even though Jews may have suffered worse elsewhere. Although it seems wrong to compare experiences like that 'cause it was pretty horrible for both.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's just a US thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No we have it in Canada too

by Anonymous 13 years ago

we doo?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

inb4 massive comment war about race (I might be too late).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You've got to wonder why it's only a black history month. The whites did a lot more awesome shit, and they don't get a month. They completely dominated another race and kicked them off their land, like bosses, and they don't get a month. This is one of the least complained about forms of racism, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You deserve a month.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://facepwn.com/posters/no_U.jpg

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the whites were lazy people who needed other races 2 build their own damn country. they were selfish, greedy, and dumb. what kind of person goes into someones country and enslaves them all? a white person. this could be said about a lot of people now, but their was nothing honourable white people did by enslaving a race

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i lol'd.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Man, I wish all whites had one giant country. Then we could beat on all you lesser races with ease.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, the thought of equal rights was a lot different just a few hundred years ago than it is now...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its funny because that happened a lot in Africa. It wasn't just whites who did that stuff. It is only noticeable because whites did it more recently.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

African Slavery and white slavery was A LOT different. For example, there were laws protecting slaves in Africa. You were not allowed to split up families. Africans were allowed to get married. They were not treated like cattle.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

brb, heading to a country and enslaving them all, because I'm white..and I can do that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You do you realize they were technically European, right? Just sayin'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whites get the 11 other months cool

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Black and jews both went through about the same over the entirity of history.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

|: Seriously?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant theres been great atrocities against both groups of people, and they both deserve equal recognition. The poster stating that Jews went through more is incorrect.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

are you retarded?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

First of all thats not very useful criticism. And second of all, even if its not a contest I still take offense to the posters position that Jews have gone through more. Yes, there were 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust and more in Egypt. But you cannot forget the tens of millions of people who died in the colonization of Africa, fueled by racial discrimination and the belief in social darwinism.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The colonization of Africa, at its most intense point, took thirty five years. The Holocaust took four years.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So it would almost seem we're agreeing then.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. Not at all. If you do the math, 1.5 million Jews died each year of the Holocaust, compared to 286,000 in Africa per year. The Jews experienced an 80% higher casualty rate per annum.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What about Eskimo history month?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't they get all pissed when you call them Eskimo's?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Can we get over this whole race-month-thing? There's been so many posts about this. Yes, every race deserves its own month; no, that's not going to happen. The End.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So your race's application got turned down too huh? D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My race is AWESOME and EVERY MONTH IS AWESOME MONTH

by Anonymous 13 years ago

FUCK YEAH cool

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a month for myself, but I dedicated it to stalking you wary

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That is just... the most... romantic thing... that I have ever heard. I just... I'm choked up, really.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Umm... it's not me being romantic that's got you "choked up"....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wary

by Anonymous 13 years ago

y

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Blacks didn't just "get" a month. It started out as just a week and then eventually became a month. Other racial groups are more than free to start their own months. There is nothing stopping them. I'm voting nw for another reason; for the idea that it's somehow a competition of what race went through the most to determine what race gets a month. Thats ridiculous. The point is African Americans contributed a lot to American history and yet their importance is deemphasized in america schools. Thats it. It's ridiculous to call black history racist.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

any time someone attempts to post more posts like this they should just have a link to this

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks, and sorry for the typos. I had to type that on an iPad.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's exactly it. thank you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

.....ASIANS!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The people who said no you aren't are black.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHERES THE INDIAN MONTH? I WANT A MONTH DAMN YOUUUUUU

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, the Jews did get a whole country.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think the reason why blacks got an entire month because they are extremely stereotyped in American society today. Believe it or not, there are actually many more black doctors in America than there are athletes. This is actually surprising to many because society has stereotyped blacks to be athletes, sexual predators, thieves, or gangsters. For example, they are never stereotyped as inventors, yet many inventions were created by black people. The ironing board, traffic signal, filament in the modern light bulb, automatic gear shift in cars, and other inventions were all invented by black people. I think that since blacks are stereotyped this much in America, it doesn't hurt to recognize their heritage for month. It's only a month.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You are getting on my nerves with this. Stop hating because we have our own month. Like damn. You enslaved us all the least you could do is let us have a month -___-

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dude sorry, I'll try not to enslave an entire race on my own next time D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Name one person who possibly would have read the comment that enslaved a single black person. You'd hold us accountable for our ancestor's actions? Hell, a lot of the white people in this country weren't even around when slavery was abolished. I know only one part of my family was, and that was the Native American part.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Shut up, and don't reply to my posts. And I wasn't talking about YOU yourself. I meant to say white people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Omfgomfgomfg you forgot to click reply D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You want a ____ history month? Feel free to start one. Maybe it will catch on like Black History Month. That's what blacks did. Nobody gave it to us. "We" established it ourselves and it caught on.

by Anonymous 13 years ago