How Black History Month began and how it has changed to what it is today | Just the FAQs
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- Here's why the founder Carter G. Woodson created Black History Month and how it's different today than he originally planned.
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February marks the start of Black History Month, a federally recognized celebration of the contributions African Americans have made to this country and a time to reflect on the continued struggle for racial justice.
Black History Month has become one of the most celebrated cultural heritage months on the calendar, said LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri.
Schools and businesses offer Black-history-themed meals, lectures, plays and quizzes while major brands roll out clothing, television specials and content for consumers, which can sometimes come off as tone-deaf, particularly when presented without context.
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Every black history month I watch the old Roots TV miniseries. Backwards. To give it a happy ending.
We just did something wonderful in our school! We actually completely disregarded black history month, and made it white history month instead!!! The kids are so happy and smiling. Just a wonderful way to turn a negative to a positive!
Amazing
Happy BHM!! Be proud of who you are!
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@@user-fz6qv4ve8v yep, you’re getting touched 😂😂😂
They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here. Tupac Shakur
Be proud of your accomplishments, NOT how you were born. It takes zero effort to wake up this way.
@@gravityslave6277 But if your race never really contributed anything to society besides crime, misery and an overpowering sense of entitlement, you have to make things up, like BHM.
Happy black history month yall take care!!!!😁😘✊️🖤
Criminals the lot of you,white lives matter!
My question is, why can't we just celebrate all races all year? Why does there have to be 1 month for black history, but no month for any other race?
Haha black month history kinda stupid idea
@@Your_bedouin_friend_duha I just don't agree with limiting a race's history into 1 month, which is kinda stupid as it's like "Do we only acknowledge them in that particular month?" In general, it's pretty stupid
BLM looted and graffitied my small market, which is African American owned btw. Surveillance showed kids laughing “Black Lives Matter” as they were running away with stolen items. More like Burn Loot Murder/Marxism if you ask me. Can’t believe I used to support that violent movement....they’ve moved so far away from what I thought they’d be. Wish there was another movement to follow
@@afghanistanborn3881 Business lives matter
@@afghanistanborn3881 Point out all the bad and go "Can't believe I was for this movement". You are a incredible thinker, the first I've seen to stoop to this low of intelligence
We have a long way to go
Need white history month 😅
I admit I had no idea that february and march are both now included! great!
Quick gem!
To ALL my 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷 massive, it starts with Us!!!! WE ARE NOT LATINO/HISPANIC/SPANISH, for WE do not lie within Latin America, WE ARE children of the AFRICAN DIASPORA, and Spanish is a (European) LANGUAGE. We’re simply and technically “The Caribbean, or The Spanish Caribbean” by linguistic specifications. We have to understand and LIVE BY TRUTH, which includes the fact that we were first purposely uncultivated in many ways so that we can be as lost and misinformed, and ultimately taken advantage of (Spanish/U.S. colony) as much as we are today. Like English and french patois, we have Spanish patois. More of a Creole (Criollo/a), if you will. It’s only HARD TO SEE and say when blind folded by indoctrination. This was used, AND IT WORKED, to divide and conquer. WE ARE AS CARIBBEAN AS THE REST OF OUR BROTHAS AND SISTAS. Bless n love! 🇵🇷🇩🇴🇨🇺🇯🇲🇭🇹🇻🇮🇦🇬🇧🇧🇩🇲🇬🇩🇬🇾🇰🇳🇱🇨🇹🇹
Like the English, French and Dutch Caribbean, the Spanish Caribbean is no different in being children of Africa, a.k.a. The African diaspora. With just about 85% of Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican food and Culture heavily derives from our African and/or mixed African roots, it wasn’t until the mid 1980-1990’s that restaurant signs on the islands themselves, particularly Puerto Rico, began to “swop out” and adopt our comida criollo/a (creole food), to the more euro-American terms, lantino/a, Spanish, and Hispanic food. Hence the reason for most people outside of our homeland/islands use these white washed, adopted (pushed) terms, versus our original and intended ones. To this day on my beautiful island their are still some who hold on to our true heritage and have refused to submit to the derogatory terms (Latino/a, Hispanic, Spanish) that were pushed on our people and culture, intentionally designed to diminish our Afro-indigenous roots from who we’ve always been. Simply, loud and proud… AFRO-CARIBBEAN!!!
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Go “mejorar tu raza”😂😂😂😂
wow
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They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here. Tupac Shakur
Don’t blame us for why y’alls race continue to have y’alls own downfall😂😂😂😂
Arturo Schomburg
Roberto Clemente
The Young Lords Party
And SO MUCH MORE ARE NEVER MENTIONED SIMPLY BECAUSE THESE PARTICULAR KINGS AND QUEENS ARE PUERTO RICAN ( NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH LATINO/A OR SPANISH )
Celebrating 150 year's of crime, single parent families and grape flavored cigars. What an enduring legacy
Dont forget bank jugging and the knock-out game....a rich tapestry of achievement.
150 years of overcoming slavery, segregation, and racial inequality
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@@user-fz6qv4ve8v each family having several generations on welfare too. A very rich cultural history.
This is literally a benefit these people pass from one generation to the next. Work has never occurred to them
My mother would tell me: I don't care what they tell you in school, black history month is a hoax
Black people did you notice black history month was given on the shortest number of days in the 12 months in the whole year?? Go think about that! Such contempt for your people, right before your very eyes. They always win!
February was chosen as it marks the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln.
Its the white man, its the white man🤣🤣🤣🤣
When is Jewish history month?
@Kitalia the kitsune That's a really nice month!
It’s in may, look it up
HAPPY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH:)
fk that
@Florida Native my birthday is this Thursday and I was still born in black history month:)
😂were not African unless you were born there
Happy black history month!!!!😁😘✊️🖤
You should go celebrate with your cousins at the zoo 😁😘✊🖤🙈🙉🙊
@@roadkillavenger1325 What?
@@ms.divine4696 moooo
@@ms.divine4696 black history month is racist. It's also a pro-segregation idea. I'm glad you support those age-old problems. The world needs to burn.
@@roadkillavenger1325 You have a nice day.
I believe that there shouldn't be a LGBTQ or black history month.
I believe that there should be a American history month where they teach about Americans. Like, black Americans and how they got there freedoms, there success, and accomplishments. I believe we should teach about how Jews became successful in America. How white people became successful in America, and Mexicans, Asians, and so on.
We're not called the United States because of our states, but because God wanted us to be united not divided. I think it's time for, Black, White, Jewish, Asian, Mexican, and so on to be united and not divided.
Nah, just black history month, rather than people who hate black americans. This whole "division thing" only becomes a discussion when it comes to black people. Will you tell a native american that there shouldn't be native heritage month but everyone heritage month?
That’s not what the powers that be want. They want to keep us divided to be sure our attention is diverted from how we’re getting porked in the ass.
The only thing black history month is for is so blacks can claim victimhood and tell their lies about how badly racism is in America today ! They are in good company with the Child grooming LGBTQ Community both are bad for America ! Because neither wants equal treatment ! The blacks want to have more rights than whites and all other races ! And The LGBTQ Community are Demanding to be Able to Groom America’s Children into becoming what They Are ! The LGBTQ Community is an Organization of Pedophiles and Nothing More !
@jim hardy Facts!
There wouldn't be a black history anything without the contrast of Caucasians.
This is the kind of stuff that causes segregation of races.
Where is Latino history month
@Akbar Al-Riyadhi my entire family is from Mexico so I want a Hispanic history month
@Akbar Al-Riyadhi can’t cut your grass cause you already ate it
@Akbar Al-Riyadhi and the whole Hispanic history month was just sarcastic to show how dumb it is to have a black history month
@@gabrielmacias3582 why are you so offended? Now that you have just ate racism again in your comments, do you still not see your hypocrisy? You just showed hatred to black people, and then someone ended up showing hatred to you, yet you still justify your hate racism? Smh I will be praying for you in love and with a racial harmonic heart
@Akbar Al-Riyadhi Nothing smart about being racist. Only another sign of a a hate filled heart on the highway to hell. I seen your other comment and I am praying for you too. God sees everyone the same with the equal value. He loves Black Americans more than you can ever know and as much as your ethnic group. We should be living in racial harmony with one another not hate. The demon of racism attacked you and then filled your heart with hatred and it's slime but I am praying for you very in love. I'm not your enemy nor other Black Americans
We need white month history Arab month history or is it just for only blacks smh insecurities
yes
It’s all part of their agenda.
Divide
It’s called representation you racist. Don’t be mad because you don’t have a movement, be happy you don’t need one.
Include how arabs and whites participated in slavery and oppression during this month. It further exposes them so it's a great idea
1st
Evil.
Ignorance=You
everyone in this comment section is racist
Not surprised. Everything is a problem when it promotes black people. No one is whining about native american heritage month.
It's a dam shame
Not racist, they are free.
Exactly..
Every single one.
and proud of it!
Proverbs 31:26 she opened her mouth with wisdom and her tongue is the law of kindness...the heart of her husband doth trust in her safely... Trent(77) July 27(77) 30th Sunday of 1986. 72786(30) Trent Donnel Montgomery (286) 21/3 7. Montgomery/Numerology. Eunuch brook. God brook.
I WAS BORN DURING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH MY BIRTHDAY IS 2/23/23 AND I WAS BORN IN THE YEAR OF 1992. OF FEBRUARY TWENTY THRID I COULD HAVE BEEN A AFRICAN AMERICAN BABY SERIOUSLY I WISH I WAS CAUSE OF THE DAY THAT I WAS BORN ON AR 9:53 AM. SO HAPPY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH I SUPPORT IT BECAUSE I AM NOT AGAINST THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH AND NO I AM NOT RACIST IT'S DUMB TO BE RACIST TOO.
Looking at the collage they created for this video...almost every photo is of a black politician, athlete or race hustler...no real accomplishments.
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Whiners history month
Try working for free then you may understand.
@@vernonwright7257 try getting an education and a job or starting your own business and being your own Boss
@@rickyracer1970 Stop whining yourself
Pretty sure no one on here worked for free...EBT for all
@@rickyracer1970 'working's for jerks' (lyrics from Coontown by Johnny Rebel).
Psalm 56:5-7
New King James Version
5 All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather together,
They hide, they mark my steps,
When they lie in wait for my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Matthew 24:7
New King James Version
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Isaiah 24
New King James Version
Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.
7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.
Haha black month history kinda stupid idea
Why? because we black people don't have it hard enough?
@The Unnamed Cousin I didn't mean that
@@Your_bedouin_friend_duha you are racist. Just in case you didn’t know.
WHY don't you recognize Italian Heritage Day (July 25th) and Czech Heritage Month (October) too ???
Blacks & Mexicans get regonized.
WHY ARE YOU IGNORING CZECHS & ITALIANS ????
Because all these cultures have accomplished something significant for society unlike this group.
No one cares
Same
Nobody obliges you
@@jonathanks3621 nobody obliges you
@@Illuinitii I care, you’re racist, so you don’t. I guess that’s the end of it.
@@soulresonance4073 White's took humans to space, invented smart phones, medicine, mathematics, etc. so blow me
I just wonder why we are in need of a Black History Month?
We don't have an Irish-american history month. We don't have Italian American history month. We don't have a Chinese American history month. We don't have a Native American history month. We only have a Black History Month. My guess is that the reason why is because those are the only group of people that cry consistently about everything.
Wow lol
Lmao a quick Google search will tell you those exist
BIack privilege
How come all the incarcerated blacks the highest percentage of any racial demographic incarcerated isn't in this video
Right😂😂😂
No one cares
who’s no one?