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And why do whites not have a month frfr
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Because white people aren't considered valuable anymore. You can get mugged and mocked by black people for being "too educated" or "too white" and people will tell you to go cry about it (actually blacks can do that to other blacks). But it's the end of the world if a Walmart employee looks at a black person funny. The media started capitalizing "Black" but not "white" on purpose in 2020.

As far as these people are concerned, the things their ancestors went through that they haven't felt at all justify treating everyone else like garbage, even though nobody did anything to them now.
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idk
I'm just guessing that black people weren't exactly treated well back then and they've made some good contributions to society that need to be recognized.
Again just guessing
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black people were treated like crap
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so were some whites
I have italian family members who changed their names bc Italians were mistreated and they tried to pass for English Americans.
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My family too. As a person of Italian heritage, my family had to change their Latin (Italian) name to a slightly different one because they could not buy land, get jobs, and be a normal member of society if suspected to be Italian.
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was your fam inslaved?
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1) I'm mostly black so yes. I have ancestors that were shipped on the plantations
2) what is "inslaved"
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Woops sorry, misspelling, i meant enslaved Also i was not aware of that, but i what i meant is that Italian people in america did suffer, but that black people did suffer more, historically
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this is true in some sense, but then, America isn't the only place that exists. If you go to the near-middle east region, there are places where blacks have enslaved whites, or even their own ppl. And some of these people were the same Africans who stole kids from their homes for the purpose of selling them to whites going to America (which is how the American slave trade even began in the first place). Also, the word "slave" actually comes from the Slavs, who were Caucasian.
The notion that black people have always had it harder than anyone else is just simply untrue. There were the Jews in Nazi Germany. There were the citizens of the Bolshevik Revolution who either died or had to live through a USSR reign of Lenin and if they survived long enough, Stalin, who was even worse and just killed people in droves just to instill fear. Stalin alone killed more ppl than even Hitler did (including Holocaust numbers), and thats not counting all the forced abortions he caused, resulting in the deaths of millions of babies whose moms didn't want to give them up.
And Mao's takeover of China was very much like Hitler's takeover of Germany; he picked a demographic of ppl to rile the public against and began persecuting them in droves after taking power, just four years after China had finally been freed from Japan's oppressive takeover (which was another event that sucked to live through). Mao alone killed more ppl than Stalin and Hitler combined, and then some.
And then there's the Kim dynasty in North Korea, the most oppressive reign on Earth. The population of the region of North Korea decreased by 2/3 when Kim Il-Sung took over bc many were either killed or they bolted to South Korea.

There are ppl that after hearing all this, are still convinced all blacks have had it the worst simply bc black. Some ppl have even suggested that blacks have it the worst now. If someone really thinks that, I dare them to go to North Korea and bring a Bible or the Quran with them. It won't end well. See, in America, we are all entitled to free speech, something we take for granted. In China and North Korea, that same freedom is non-existent. You will be persecuted for not agreeing with the government. And believe me, if you think slave torture was bad (and it really was), you really don't want to know what kind of torture happens when a government gets like the USSR's or Nazi Germany's or WW2 Japan's or China's or North Korea's where no one can question what the government does.
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my comment was meant in context of US history,not world history. thought that was kind of obvious but go off i guess.you also fully went off topic after the origin of the word slave coming from the Slavs. sure "blacks sold other blacks" thats not entirely true, the arrival of slave traders with weapons created and arms race, Africans arent just one big group, there we many different ethnic groups who saw each other as rivals, such ethnic groups include Yoruba, Igbo, Urhobo, Dahomey, Itsekiri, Ashanti, Fante, Ga or any of the hundreds of West African ethnic groups, who often went to war against each other.When Europeans slave traders didnt kidnap people to send on their ships, they went to people of importance within different ethnic groups in exchange for weapons. the whole "black people sold themselves" is just racist propaganda thats stopping you from realizing that africa isnt just one country or one group. the politcal powers just took an oppurtunity to be more powerfull than their opponents by removing their man force and getting better weaponry in exchange.
i wasnt saying that white people dont have it bad, too things can be good at once, however, when i said "black people have it worse" in the context of american history, its just a fact.
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*two things not too things lol
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My moms side is indian
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Well no duh lol
But white people are people too
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as a mostly black person I am ashamed that this has to be stated
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Wdym
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That white people are people
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Yes
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They get treated better nowdays thoe
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Let the arguing begin!!!
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cus throughout alot of time in history, black and african history was never taught and over time has been slowly been fading from history books, this is known as "white washing". Black History Month was created to combat that and promote equality for black people
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I say get rid of any kind of month black, white, pride, cis, get rid of it and focus on occupation and roles instead, ex: veterans mothers, fathers, etc
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Mega W
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Agreed. If we want equality for people of various complexions than why do we care so much about dividing us all up based labels, in 2023? Why don't we worry more about our actions...
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W
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blacks get a month, hepatics get a month, but we gingers get a DAY! A DAY!
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Fathers only get a day too. So do mothers. Even Jesus only gets one day.
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That's because you are just a hair colour
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Because February is when Abraham Lincoln was born and Abraham Lincoln ended slavery.
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Frederick Douglass was also born in February. You dont need to do a lot of digging to find out.
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leap year(which is this year) at least extends it to 29 days
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Still the shortest
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lets add white history month because they are people too
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Yes we are people too, but black people didnt have full equality until the 60s/70s and were literally not considered humans for a super long time
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still thats racist to only support blacks rather than whites
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the point of black history month is to celebrate their struggle and whites didnt have to struggle (as much)
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Not in the UK
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Why is Friday black?
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Because white sunday was taken.
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That is the sale on black people day!
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A sale! Cool, I should go- wait a minute...
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my mexican ass having to share a month with cubans and the Spanish
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y u guys fighting over who gets a month in there honor. like its cool and all but move on. my country don't even have a DAY and I not whining
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nobody is whining goofy
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Why is black history month the shortest month of the year?