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Cultural celebrations are a part of history. During Black History month you can do such awesome things as learn about The Tuskegee Airmen, Chuck Berry and other legendary artists who created rock n roll. In my town, there are local restaurants that celebrate with seasonal food that is bomb. Sharing your culture is human, and black culture is a huge part of American culture, all cultures that join the melting pot are. Spread the love, the season is for everyone.
All I want to say is that if you think it was Black History Month that taught people about Chuck Berry, you're for one thing clearly born after Back To The Future came out. Dude was a legend. The other dude has a point: you don't have to ONLY learn about black achievements during BHM. It should be all the time. But instead y'all jumped on the guy assuming he meant we shouldn't teach black history AT ALL.
People get born later as time goes on. Don't see why that means I have to learn about Chuck Berry from a movie.
Don't worry about them. They have no reading comprehension. Your argument is we shouldn't segregate when we teach black history, it should just be a part of all people's history that we teach all of the time. You're not advocating for less black history, if anything your advocating for more. They just want to get offended.
What is this article replacing it with? A month about oil and the civil war? Does that sound more culturally enlightening to you? We can read, we just enjoy black history month. Why is that a problem?