RNC spotlights Black History Month

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RINO PC white guilt nonsense. All real Americans understand that Black History month is a disgustingly racist holiday. Why is there no white history month???

White History Month is basically every month.

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This is stupid.  They shouldn't have to do it.  Every month should be devoted to history, black and white.  Not cutting out one measly month to do it in.

This is also true.

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This is stupid.  They shouldn't have to do it.  Every month should be devoted to history, black and white.  Not cutting out one measly month to do it in.

What's wrong with setting aside time for celebrating certain cultural and ethnic groups who have contributed to American society?

Well, to a certain extent, it can be construed as separating out Blacks unnecessarily- considering that pretty much everything in American history and culture is structured around and tied strongly to race- some could think that it implies that the rest of the months are to be devoted to wealthy WASPs.

Of course, Black History month isn't a bad idea at all. We should just keep in mind that the other 11 months shouldn't leave out blacks either.

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Everybody knows that neither Douglass or Revels would particularly want to be associated with the GOP of today.

That's extremely dubious for multiple reasons (among other things, Revels actually became a Democrat in 1874 because he felt that Republicans were taking the black vote for granted). More generally, Douglass and Revels were both extremely religious and it could be argued they would fit in in the evangelical right -- but, in any case, the world has changed to such an extent that it is very difficult to say which party they, or any other historical figure, would support.

You could actually, y'know, learn a little something about black history for black history month instead of spending it making unsupported assertions.

Sure, you can try and argue that two black pioneers of the civil rights movement would be affiliated with the party dominated by white racists of today,

I don't think anyone's arguing they'd be part of the National Socialist Movement, and I can't think of any other American political party that is. Certainly no prominent major/minor party.

  That would be quite retarded, though.

Not when compared to the ignorance of your posts in this thread, though.

Maybe it's the party that has had multiple officials from different states say things like "we don't want black people to vote". That's probably the one with the racists.

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Everybody knows that neither Douglass or Revels would particularly want to be associated with the GOP of today.

That's extremely dubious for multiple reasons (among other things, Revels actually became a Democrat in 1874 because he felt that Republicans were taking the black vote for granted). More generally, Douglass and Revels were both extremely religious and it could be argued they would fit in in the evangelical right -- but, in any case, the world has changed to such an extent that it is very difficult to say which party they, or any other historical figure, would support.

You could actually, y'know, learn a little something about black history for black history month instead of spending it making unsupported assertions.

Sure, you can try and argue that two black pioneers of the civil rights movement would be affiliated with the party dominated by white racists of today,

I don't think anyone's arguing they'd be part of the National Socialist Movement, and I can't think of any other American political party that is. Certainly no prominent major/minor party.

  That would be quite retarded, though.

Not when compared to the ignorance of your posts in this thread, though.

Maybe it's the party that has had multiple officials from different states say things like "we don't want black people to vote". That's probably the one with the racists.

The Democrats have changed quite a bit since the 1960s (and even then, most of the party opposed the racists), and it's beyond Oldies levels of absurd to call them racists today.

Oh come on, you know I was referring to the Republicans, who recently have had officials in Texas, Pennsylvania, and other states talk about how they don't want blacks or Hispanics to vote.