Crap No-one Needs, #19
Black History Month
The world has seen many great civilizations that our kids could study in school. There are the ancient Chinese, who built great ships and navigated the world. The Greeks developed systems of philosophical thought and introduced concepts of democracy. Great Mogul leaders brought unity to India. The Romans performed amazing feats of architecture, road building, irrigation and medicine. Western civilizations created magnificent cathedrals, and invented printing so that knowledge could be disseminated to the world. Egyptians built pyramids whose secrets are still being unraveled today. Sun worshippers in South America plotted the movements of the stars and created amazingly accurate astronomical calendars.
So why is it that the schools here find it necessary to have fucking black history month every fucking year. I have nothing against black people, but it's hard to imagine any civilization that has contributed less to world history and development. The only thing that gets talked about is slavery and civil rights, any discussion of which conveniently overlooks that blacks were sold into slavery by, er, other blacks. Oh, and we have to remember that our ancestors supposedly emerged in Africa, which is a convenient way for Africa to get a free ride on the achievements of every other society in spite of having contributed practically nothing of note as a continent itself.
Forget about learning from the great societies of the world - let's have an annual festival of American liberal white guilt instead.
The world has seen many great civilizations that our kids could study in school. There are the ancient Chinese, who built great ships and navigated the world. The Greeks developed systems of philosophical thought and introduced concepts of democracy. Great Mogul leaders brought unity to India. The Romans performed amazing feats of architecture, road building, irrigation and medicine. Western civilizations created magnificent cathedrals, and invented printing so that knowledge could be disseminated to the world. Egyptians built pyramids whose secrets are still being unraveled today. Sun worshippers in South America plotted the movements of the stars and created amazingly accurate astronomical calendars.
So why is it that the schools here find it necessary to have fucking black history month every fucking year. I have nothing against black people, but it's hard to imagine any civilization that has contributed less to world history and development. The only thing that gets talked about is slavery and civil rights, any discussion of which conveniently overlooks that blacks were sold into slavery by, er, other blacks. Oh, and we have to remember that our ancestors supposedly emerged in Africa, which is a convenient way for Africa to get a free ride on the achievements of every other society in spite of having contributed practically nothing of note as a continent itself.
Forget about learning from the great societies of the world - let's have an annual festival of American liberal white guilt instead.
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