Black American Month

The month of February leads into a month long propagation of black history. I touch this subject with the potential knowledge of being ostracized and black labeled a racist, which is far from the truth, by the black American community. However the contributions and achievements of African-Americans, from the fields of science, literature and arts, entertainment, politics and sports, deserve attention and acknowledgement; it seems almost to me to be a contradiction to the desegregation that the great Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

Where is the American Jew month, oh yes they have a week in April! What about Irish American month or Asian American month. These two amazing cultures where mainly responsible for the growth of the American Frontier through the railroads. How about Italian American month? Hey, For that matter where does history or the media recognize the achievements of the American Native or the acknowledgments for the pain they still endure.

The American skeleton best desired to be left in the closet. A skeleton of history remembered with ovaries dangling from American soldier’s gun barrels while the skull fragments and fresh blood of infants dripped from their boots. A skeletons history of slaughter, violence, theft and lies of a people that could be considered one of the key contributors towards the victory of WWII should not be left in the closet.

So without fear of being ostracized or watching my back from a local drive by, I ask where is the justice in the segregation of one race’s month long acknowledgment too which no other race has the privilege to enjoy. Is there a White American month by the way?