Do you think Black History Month is a tad racist?

[johncocker]

Why don't you go and check for yourself?

 

So what way did you choose to check Black History Month?

 

 

 

have you got alzheimers as well as that chip on your shoulder?

[shims]

so shoud'nt it be "nonwhite history month"

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So what way did you choose to check Black History Month?

[shims]

Caricature perhaps, but hardly malicious.

It was a portrayal which, at the time it was introduced, had no malice whatsoever. People did not then appreciate that society's views would soon evolve, so their actions in introducing a goliwog doll may have been misguided, naive, or without appropriate consideration, but they were quite normal for the time and to call it 'malicious' is drama-queening at the very least.

You're entirely incorrect. I suggest you investigate further.

[Conrod]

You're entirely incorrect. I suggest you investigate further.

Enlighten me, oh font of anti-racism knowledge.

[shims]

have you got alzheimers as well as that chip on your shoulder?

Can't answer ...

I have it has'nt:roll:

How surprising: I guess you must have lied.

[boyfriday]

Caricature perhaps, but hardly malicious.

It was a portrayal which, at the time it was introduced, had no malice whatsoever. People did not then appreciate that society's views would soon evolve, so their actions in introducing a goliwog doll may have been misguided, naive, or without appropriate consideration, but they were quite normal for the time and to call it 'malicious' is drama-queening at the very least.

 

There were also the racists who used poor golly symbolically to persecute a group of people.

 

Have a look at "Winston" being sacrificed and bear in mind this is the 21st Century

 

[shims]

Enlighten me, oh font of anti-racism knowledge.

Anti-racism is a positive thing, oh sarcastic one. I've posted a link before on a similar thread some time before. The historical use is very easy to find online. as I said, I suggest you investigate further.

[Nagel]

I was originally ambivalent about 'black history month' but the more I follow this thread the more it demonstrates how valuable such an event is.

 

William Wilberforce, the (white) abolitionist from Hull is a hero in black culture.

 

There's even a private university in America named after him which was historically black.

 

http://www.wilberforce.edu/home/home.html

 

William Wilberforce is the most famous ex-pupil of the school I attended. One of the houses was named after him and more recently the Archbishop o' York unveiled a statue of him in the front courtyard.

[Nagel]

funny how it was the white british were the first to abolish it though isn't it:D

 

I wonder if that will get a mention in black history month

 

It's not funny, it's something we can be proud of and I'm sure it will get a mention in BHM in this country, if not in the USA.

[Conrod]

There were also the racists who used poor golly symbolically to persecute a group of people.

 

Have a look at "Winston" being sacrificed and bear in mind this is the 21st Century

 

BNP idiots being what they are does not mean that the original creation of a child's doll was done from malice.