Black History Month 2024: How to Honor, Learn, & Celebrate

Their needs to be more people like Marvin Dunn speak to the youth! He lived history of Jim Crow era and how it felt.

Happy Black History Month!

I hope this month we all learn about the contributions of some Black people we've never heard of, and we can stop people from lying about how great our country has been to Black people just so they can win votes from white supremacists.

If you haven't yet heard how pathetic Nikki Haley was on the Breakfast Club yesterday, look for it.

@Causes, are you really honoring the month by reposting threads from a year ago? Doesn't it deserve a fresh page?

It doesn't appear that all people of our country are, at any given time,  going to give up their racial dislikes for other groups. I think it is best to keep all current laws that protects EVERYONE'S CIVIL RIGHTS in place and continue incorperating the lives and histories of all the other groups within our school curriculums.  Mr. DeSantis needs to be schooled on these ideas of inclusion.  Our forefathers knew and in fact planned to have all people that were interested in living in "freedom" to learn, inter-marry, and celebrate all of our diversities!  We were to become "A great "Melting Pot" of many different cultures.  Lets continue to enjoy it!

There are several boats full of people off the coast of Florida right now (2/5/23).  Florida public schools are short over 9,000 teachers.  Are you thinking the same thing I am? Send in the welcome committees; have each grab a willing family, set them up at your home, teach them English, or perhaps some already know how to speak it and if so you put them in charge of the new language integration program.  Use your American "land of the free home of the brave, best foot forward ideas" and get er done!  Prayers answered!  If you believe, you can do anything!

Well I was going to say Black Inclusion but didn't see that choice.  

It seems we are going backwards on racism. Martin Luther King won the Civil right War. But his true accomplishment was that he took white people to church as it was a predominantly white society over the decades that passed laws and changed society values on equity. When current US Consensus population numbers show that 60+% of this country is white, 18% is Hispanic and 15% is black, the how is it that 85% of commercials are black faces. It would seem discrimination only applies if you are black. They have coined the phrase "people of color" to bring all non-white people into a single group. Therefore I am proud to be a person of no color. Are you brave enough to make such a statemrnt? Until we start focusing on our similarities instead of our differences, we will never evolve to the next level.

When you have no other choice in a stubborn society......

yes- we all need resist fascism, and imperialism.

African slaves built much of the nation, and deserve real reperations, not just statues, or a street name.

real history needs to be taught, so we not only avoid the mistakes of the past, but own up to them, so we can all heal from the trauma of the past. then we can address the systematic racism built into our society.

Education for all Americans even Florida's GOV!!!

join in society, resist is racist

Black History month is an opportunity for all of us to reflect upon the injustices that some of us want to impose on others of us, Telling history as it actually is and was is the key to truly understanding and a means for all people to redress their own biases and stereotypical thinking that lets some people, consciously and unconsciously, see other people as 'others' not worthy of the basic respect due to each and every member of our most exclusive 'club', the human race.

Systemic racism is built by the uncounscious biases that some people have not chosen to even think about let alone even attemot to redress. It is a factor that disenfranchises many groups of people thought of as 'others'.

The key is to peacefully protest and highlight injustices wherever, however and whenever they occur; To remind each of us that we have a responsibility that transecends just what we get get for or do for ourselves or our 'group' - but what we can get for or do for the best of all of our brothers and sisters that make up the all of us - human beings.

Black History month is a template for helping everyone overcome the irrational biases and stereotypes that can control our emotionally reactive 'animal' brain - by flexing the 'muscles' our higher order cerebral cortex to reign in misguided emotive responses to any superficially 'other' group of people.

I value Black History month for opening the door to the acceptance of all disenfranchised 'others' and providing a template for stopping those that choose to inllame and re-enforce the biases that we all live with - for their own personal or political benefit.

Nonviolent protest like Ghandi & King used to achieve change is a very powerful way to achieve political & social change. The key to success is keeping it nonviolent.

It's good, but not perfect. I'm sure any theme that could be picked is one the RepublicaNazis would find a way to deem offensive and threatening to their snowflake cowardice. Still, it is a topic about equality, a lesson everyone needs to keep learning indefinitely.

DeSatan called Black history zombie and hostile. I am pretty sure that he use a home alarm system that was invented by Marie Van Brittan Brown.

I am sure he uses Zoom or Teams that Marian Croak is responsible for.

Black history is about inventors, authors, musicians, business,  food, and so much more that should be listed.

Artist to listen too: Danielle Ponder, Curtis Harding, Alice Smith, Leon Bridges, H.E.R, and Gary Clark, Jr.

Great skincare companies: Beautystat, Shani Darden, Hyper, Faded, Epi.logic, Fenty, and Black Girls Magic.

Haircare: Shea Moisture, Briogeo, Bread Beauty Supply, and Pattern.

Spirits: Uncle Nearest, Anteel Tequila,  Brough Brothers, Ten to One Rum, Revel Spirits.

Black history is about movers and shakers. It is about accomplishment. It is about making a path for the future. It is about support. Yes, it is about equality but we need to see what can be created from it. 

Black history should be taught year round. 

I am going to celebrate and thank the ancestors for what they accomplished and continue working for the present and future.

Learning and celebrating diversity is a lifelong task. Being white, I can't experience the prejudice that those of color deal with daily. However, I can listen, read, and watch with an open mind and a desire to expand my awareness. 

We need to honor black Americans 

The only way anyone of any color to advance is to work and educate their family. It has been a proven method . The government handouts and drugs are killing us all. The police and their own flag should tell you that we are not safe from the most significant legal gang in the country. They are not all bad but those who are not fear for themselves within their system. We are killing each other and they get paid to watch.

About Florida and the AP African-American History course. 

I understand that DeSantis and others on the right are afraid of Black queer people, activists, and the concept of systemic racism.

But to cancel figures and concepts like this from a course on African-American history is to literally whitewash and sanitize this history, which means the education and certification is incomplete.

I'm sorry people on the right prefer their own ignorance to a complete education, but they are on the wrong side of history here.

I love & support the theme. Don't stop standing up. 

Non violent resistance is the way to go