Welcome to Black History Month 2015!
Thanks for all your wonderful suggestions! Here are the ones that got the most nominations and seconds. The ones in bold are Promised Posts – I have promised to do at least four of those a month.
- 7 The Crack Epidemic
- 7 gentrification of Harlem
- 7 school-to-prison pipeline
- 6 Detroit
- 6 Fulani people
- 6 Tulsa Riot
- 6 Zimbabwe
- 6 Zora Neale Hurston
- 5 Bill Cosby
- 5 Free Blacks Before 1865
- 5 Lee Daniels
- 5 Moors
- 5 Songhay Empire
- 5 The Great Migration
- 5 The term “thug”
- 4 Bacon’s Rebellion
- 4 Black Codes
- 4 Black Power
- 4 Claudette Colvin
- 4 Esther Jones
- 4 G.I. Bill
- 4 Langston Hughes
- 4 The War on Drugs
- 4 W.E.B. Du Bois
- 4 obeah
I hope to do at least ten of these. I will put in links as I complete them. I will, of course, do posts on other things, some of them having to do with Black History, some of them not.
If I do other posts on Black history this month, I will list them here:
These suggestions have already been done:
Next month is White History Month.
See also:
I’m so excited for this!
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I’m really curious why four people voted for Bacon’s Rebellion. I’ve known for years that it was the real Birth of the Nation. Just like the movie. It was all about genocide.
I know where the island is that the Susquehanock band was massacred at. It’s still above water and swarming with eagles. Those guys were nuts. But after what they went through in PA, they would be. Very PTSD.
And the way Bacon went out . . . That is one of the better parts of the story.
But this story is mostly a Native story. What are people seeing that they’re nominating it for Black History Month?
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Linda, according to wikipedia:
“Indentured servants both black and white joined the frontier rebellion. Seeing them united in a cause alarmed the ruling class. Historians believe the rebellion hastened the hardening of racial lines associated with slavery, as a way for planters and the colony to control some of the poor.”
So it seems somewhat relevant in the fact that it pushed harder slavery rules than before. Divide and conquer, from the romans was used here to split the poors in two Groups. No rulers wants a pseudo-Spartacus in his backyard.
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Nice! Zimbabwe! I believe it will be different from the usual “innocent white farmers are chased by evil blacks”-story that dominates the media. As if those white farmers do not have any personnel that gets unemployed by those actions.
That will be refreshing! 🙂
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Yes, of course, that makes sense. I was focused on the other part of the story, starting where Susquehanocks were blamed in a controversy over a pig taken in retribution for a scam a planter perpetrated. I wrote about it somewhere. Wonder if it’s still up.
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“As if those white farmers do not have any personnel that gets unemployed by those actions.” Boohoo, no tears for the white farmers. They treated their employees abysmally and got the land by trickery and violence. The fact that they hired blacks and kept the lion’s share of the income was due to the fact that in the 1930s blacks were legally banned form buying and farming the best lands. ZANU PF tried to work with them and the British using the “willing buyer, willing seller” scheme but that went nowhere as it isn’t going anywhere in South Africa presently. The farmers were stupid enough to challenge ZANU PF after having received its protection for 20 years. Mugabe led ZANU PF repaid their ingratitude by unleashing the “war veterans” on the farmers. The process of dispossessing the white farmer was not perfect and frought with corruption, all that not withstanding, it did achieve its goal of returning the land to its true owner, the black people of Zimbabwe.
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The top 4 topics are exactly why I hate black history month.
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@gro jo
Good assessment. To add, the British government supposedly reneged on its promise to fund, with the help of the international community, the “willing buyer, willing seller” programme.
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I have a post topic for this I would like to propose, maybe even draft.
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“Boohoo, no tears for the white farmers.
I was talking about the employees who lost their jobs; not about the white farmers who mostly got enough money to get away. Naturally, I can argue that these actions will do no good for the diversity of Zimbabwe. But I was not discussing that subject.
On the other hand, if the up-coming blog will be about the ancient city of Zimbabwe, then i twill be interesting as well. I’ve heard of it at High School, but like most history lessons I got there, it was only discussed superficially.
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@Abagond: Do you remember MLK’s mother Alberta King was killed and gunned down by a madman Marcus Wayne Chenault in 1974 while she played the organ in church? Nobody really talks about that anymore. Some people are just not important as others i guess.
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WoW, I don’t know how this slipped past me-you really dO learn something new every day, Mary!
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@Mz.Nikita: Most certainly
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A post on Thomas Fuller known as the Virginia Calculator for his extraordinary mathematical genius.
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A disturbing article on a recent lynching of Haitian Dominicans in the Dominican Republic:
“Haitian’s Lynching Renews Protests Against Dominican Citizenship Law”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/14/384344141/haitians-lynching-renews-protests-against-dominican-citizenship-law?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
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… please waiting … 7 The Crack Epidemic
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You ad better do obeah right, for like Keanu Reeves – i know Obeah….
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I guess the problem is not getting started early, but finding the time to put a post together. Only 2 days left in this month.
Where can we put the nominations for white history month?
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@ Jefe
I will have a welcome page. You can make suggestions there.
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