For those of you that think there is no such thing as discrimination apparently you haven't been south of Chicago lately. A news article in the DEN talks about how Charleston will not be celebrating Black History Month. Now I understand what the city says, but this is definitely not good PR for a city in southern Illinois with a dominant black community on the campus. What do you teach the kids at school when you don't celebrate it.
I for one am fully supportive of the month. I know, I know. More hippy liberal crap, but honestly. Black History Month is an important time in our year for us to reflect on the ways blacks were mistreated and to learn from our mistakes. It would be like a history books saying they acknowledge World War II happened and that Nazi concentration camps took place, but we're not going to fill the pages of our book with that because it's not state mandated.
I think the city council and the community as a whole should be utterly ashamed of themselves. It's possible the city just doesn't know how to celebrate it. In that case maybe they need to outreach to the community a little more for help. They almost make it seem like BHM is a burden.
Well, at least Morgan Freeman now has a town that he can finally settle down in I guess.
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