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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Black History Month

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Black History Month began in 1970 by the Black United Students at Kent State University, after deciding that its precursor, Black History Week (1926), needed to be expanded. 

The stereotype of Black people only eating chicken is one that has been joked about for decades and shows no signs of coming to an end anytime soon. In the US schools offer fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread to their students to “celebrate” Black History Month and think that it was a good idea to glorifying a gross stereotype - like Blacks and fried chicken. It confuses degradation as celebration.

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