Showing posts with label takingaction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label takingaction. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Questions of Identity

Are those African Americans who are rallying to end Black History Month buying trouble for themselves and the black community? 

Do their arguments that "black people only have a history as slaves in America", that outside of February, blacks have no history, and no significance, that they are even more exploitable now that they have a month that can be commercialized, with huge financial gains for folk other than blacks, hold water? 

Is the idea that since there are no months for Jews and Latinos and Asians (and so on), that there should be none for blacks, a valid idea? 

Does the argument that "Black History is American History" sufficient rationalization for the abolition of Black History Month? 

Is the organization that founded the commemoration right in labeling this "postmodernist identity games"? 

Is an America without Black History Month an America without black history?

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Speechless with rage!

WARNING!  The following image is painfully, disturbingly graphic!  None of the words below are mine...as my title says, I'm way too angry to speak!

"Some kids placed strong firecracker in the mouth of this animal and made sure he could not open it. The world is like this. To these kids it must have been a macabre fun for a few minutes and then they continued with their life like nothing happened." ~ Jade Razorcutemokitty, from Facebook.