why doesnt the month of febuary black history month talk about aberham lincoln?
461280
Here's a better question? Why is there a black histoy month?  Why not just study it with the rest of history for the whole year? Or let's give everyone else a history month too and not discuss history outside of those monthes.\n\nAlso, no one mentionedthis but it's a well known fact that Lincoln did freed slaves as a last resort.  It's like like the guy did it willingly, he did it beacuse he needed more men in the army and slaves are either going to desert, attack owners, or just have no morale otherwise, so he freed them.  Done deal.
29113
because martin luther king was born in this month
106245
yes ... I think that it is becoming more widely known, but I also think that schools could do a lot more to promote it ... just think that they have a whole month to educate our kids about Black history which is our nation's history!
245630
black History month is an observance\nfor holidays go to this\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country#United_States\n\nand for monthly observance go to this\nhttp://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html
68037
Its a month to know how bad white people have been to African Americans and to other people like asians, and Native Americans I really think it is an awesome month to celebrate Martin Luther King Junior and to Love Everyone I know I sound Cheesy but I am serious Dont be a racist please whoever is reading this!
373328
I know it was Abraham Lincoln, but I don't know the time frame.
474816
It's pretentious, I agree. But they do have a point. The idea of a white history month, use of the N word by white people, WET...all would probably be met with a lot of opposition and decried as racist. And there are probably quite a few places where a white person would be severely harmed or killed for using the N word. Granting special privileges to any given group is counterprodutive, in terms of equality. Not that I have anything against black history month or BET.
1025202
As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass.  He made a speech which in part said:\n\n"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
91311
I've asked that same question many times. We don't get a white history month because that'd be "racist," which is complete bull shit becuase we're the only race that has to kiss everyone elses ass. Everyone else can have pride for their race but if we have white pride we're racist. it's fucked up. We shouldn't have a black history month unless every race got a month.
915523
No it is not.\n\nToday is a Federal Holiday to celebrate our brave heros.
705890
Hey dude calm down this is 2006. All the slaves are dead. And who the hell are you to throw off your beliefs on someone else? Get a life.  I am black as hell and I don't ever think about what they did 100 years ago. Not even during Black History month.
916215
While Lincoln had bad feelings about slavery he had even worse feelings about Blacks as a race.  So while St. Peter and St. Paul and even Jesus seemed to have had little objection to slavery they would have had serious objections to Lincolns attitude toward Blacks.\n\nLincoln was a great man and a great president but his views on human rights for ALL races would have disappointed Jesus, Peter and Paul.\n\nIn the 1960's I think Peter and Paul would have gone with the civil rights activists.  Slavery hadn't been a question for 100 years but the HUMAN rights of Blacks had never really come true for them.
1085795
Excellent question! It seems that some of the most important documents in history were short and to the point. Could we ever use an Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson today! I think it just proves the point that those that have nothing to say, often speak the most but say the least.
785539
Well, your question can be reverse?  Why do you  consider whites blaming black...etc..etc?.  It a simple answer, because of the visible "spokesmen".  Unfortunately, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are your "spokesmen".  If you do not want their message being spread then you must silence them.  Just as I must silence the spokesmen of my race that spew hatred.
123613
I suppose you're talking about Martin Luther King JR.  He was a Baptist minister and activist who petitioned for equal rights for African Americans and other colored people.  He's probably most famous for his "I have a dream" speech which he gave on the Lincoln Memorial in front of thousands of African Americans.  He was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at a hotel in Memphis.\n\nIf you're by some chance talking about Martin Luther King SR., he was also a civil right activist but I do not know much about him.
1143849
I've always wondered that too. I think that Washington and Lincoln are more important than MLK to American History. I think that MLK was a great man and did great things, but he didn't go nearly as much as our early presidents did.
1033531
Strangely, there were some Blacks who were against Lincoln for various reasons, but they were in the minority (pun NOT intended).\n\nYou have to remember that Lincoln's original plans for freeing the slaves included sending them all to another country once they were free... he never intended for Black people to remain in the U.S. once they were emancipated.  Obviously, some of the Black people where would have been effected by this policy were against Lincoln's plans.\n\nYou also have to keep in mind that the Civil War was NOT fought over slavery, it was fought over STATE'S RIGHTS... the Emancipation Proclaimation was used by Lincoln in an attempt to scare the southern states back into the union... when it failed... he freed the Slaves.  It's only been the people who have re-written history who have made Slavery the primary reason for that terrible conflict but the historical record says differently.