Amos the famous said:
I've never really enjoyed Black History Month. Being half african and raised by my single parent black mother, I was always encouraged to get involved with the culture. But for some reason every Black History Month a good majority of africans I know will use the sentence:
"I/We (or any other group terms) went through the slave trade."
I find the whole notion to be a complete crock of shit myself. Oh dear, some guy you never met, never will and never gave two shits about before today was a slave on a cotton plantation and now, because it's Black History Month, you want to get all fucking angsty on his behalf?
Let me give you a history lesson; My grandparents generation dropped bombs on Germans. Germans dropped bombs on them. We also killed a bunch of Italians. Italians killed a bunch of us. For those of American persuasion, your grandparents commited an attrocity of such an unimaginable scale that, upon being informed Hiroshima was wiped out, the Japanese didn't believe the reports because no power on earth could possibly destroy a whole city like that.
Go further back; my ancestors butchered Europeans in World War One, and everyone else before that. The history of my nation, and by extension my race, is a long tale of bloodshed, plague, death and destruction. The land where I live now has been ruled over by Celts, Hiberno Norse, Romans, Saxons and god knows who else. Tell me, just how far back am I supposed to look for an axe to grind? Am I entitled to stomp around northeast Europe ranting at how their ancestors came over in Longships and murdered mine? Perhaps I should demand restitution from the descendents of the Zulu nation for the people they killed?
All that Black History Month, and all related events do, is paint Black Culture as a collection of sad and pathetic people who cling desperately to some perceived crime against them in the hope of gaining sympathy for the fact they were too busy taking drugs to go to college. You want Black History Month? How about HUMAN History Month? Hell, you can condense the whole fucking thing into one sentance, and I'll do it for you:
Human Beings Are Bastards.