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Martin Luther King day yesterday, and with it, thoughts about the implications of having a "Black History Month". Arguably, we all would be better served by something like "ethnic awareness day" or even "civil rights day". And if history were taught correctly, there would be no need for special months in which we focus on the history of the oppressed. So instead of "Black History Month" it should probably be, "Suppressed History Month" or even, "Atonement History Month". And the greatest value, to the status quo, of Black History Month or MLK day is the appearance of having addressed issues that in truth remain unresolved and the semantic punctuation that, for the casual and distanced observer, says, "That's all in the past now." What we really need is a month of reckoning our sins and celebrating the goodness of our enemies. A month where we say, "Hey, I could be wrong, and I'm sure you're right about X, even if we've been shooting each other over Y and Z."
I am sincere in my desire that by this time next year I might figure out a better term for Black History Month, one which stimulates eternal vigilance rather than neatly wrapping things up as settled and done, and which manages to be a little more user friendly than, "Oppressors Own-up-to-it Month".
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