People Be Brand New: A Polite Rant on History

[AthenaAwakened]

Did you know that White People are brand new?

Not all white people. Some white people were actually on this planet before last Tuesday. I know. I saw them.

But on a fairly regular basis, and especially in February, I find myself discovering again and again that there are these fully grown and often already middle aged or old white people who are brand new.

How do I find these people? I will tell you. They post on the internet. And the things they post tell me that they have no knowledge of history beyond about a week, maybe two weeks, ago.

Now this being February, the favorite post of these people is: Why do we have to have a Black History month? That's segregation!

Let that sink in for a moment.

Black History Month is separating people by race and elevating one group while denigrating all others. Black History Month is doing that.

Black History Month is making certain people sit on the back of the bus and denying them voting rights. Black History Month is sending certain children to inferior schools and denying all kinds of people the use of restrooms and water fountains.

Black History Month is a bad mother ... (shut your mouth).

Other questions posted by these brand new white people are:

Why do we have HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund?
Why do we have a BET network?
Why do we have the NAACP?

And the answer to all these questions is the same.

Because history is older than last Tuesday.

Now if the brand new people continue to ask these questions, show them the way to the public library or even better, the Google Machine.

If they want to know, they will do the research. If they don't do the research, then they really didn't want to know and no answer you give them will satisfy them.

 

[Keith&Co.]

If they want to know, they will do the research.

Hardly.
Since i was 5 years old, Sesame Street has tried to make education fun.
Now, over 50 years later, if it's not entertaining, they're not interested.

So, it's not the answers you give that fail them, it's that you don't make the presentation engaging*. You need a Black History Muppet. Don't be afraid to talk down to them, either. You cannot underestimate them.

*Engaging being the industry euphemism for entertaining**.

**And by entertaining, we mean they sit passively while a big stupid puppet's*** comments flow over their mind like water, possibly staining it with knowledge.

***Cookie Monster, Hannity, Grover, Ernie

 

[Politesse]

Since i was 5 years old, Sesame Street has tried to make education fun.
Now, over 50 years later, if it's not entertaining, they're not interested.

So, it's not the answers you give that fail them, it's that you don't make the presentation engaging*. You need a Black History Muppet. Don't be afraid to talk down to them, either. You cannot underestimate them.

Interrestingly, there was supposed to be a Black-coded muppet. Roosevelt Franklin was around for the first seasons of the show and was intended to be a part of the main cast. But test audiences hated him, and worried mothers felt that his "unruly" behavior and "poor diction" were going to be a "bad influence" on their children (whereas the unruly behavior of, say, Grover, was just fine?) Mind you, Franklin wasn't literally black, more magenta, but his manner of speech and the topics he brought along were meant to gently bring Black experiences into the world of the show. An abject failure at integration, like many such attempts in the early 70s.

 

[southernhybrid]

This is why I try to avoid reading the stupid shit that some people post on social media. It makes my head hurt.

But, it might help them to read the book, "White Rage" by Carol Anderson.

I doubt they really want to have a more thorough understanding of the history of racism in the US, so I doubt they would read a book like that.

I know it doesn't help to scream at people, but some people do make one want to scream.

 

[thebeave]

What should we do about those pesky black people who aren't towing the line about Black History Month? Like this guy:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzd7SknVrQ[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Swammerdami]

What should we do about those pesky black people who aren't towing the line about Black History Month? Like this guy:

YOUTUBE ...

What about ...?
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What about whataboutism?

Hunh?

What about it, beave?