I am just irritated at my work that we had TWO Valentine's displays up and not ONE for Black History Month. Someone said we had a "Celebrate Diversity" one to honor Dr. King in January so we didn't need to do one. We also have a big time Jazz festival this month, which is named after a very famous and prominent black musician, which the school of music is named after, so there is focus on him, and I get the feeling since he is black that covers us for Black History Month.
I made a display today and the sign I requested got changed by my boss from BLACK HISTORY MONTH to...
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.
I have never heard it called that EVER. And I think that BLACK History Month includes all the people that are black that immigrated more recently from other places. Come to think of it I think there are more black Africans in this town than I know "African Americans" (and by that I mean people who have had their families living here in the US 100s of years). I know my friends and family all call themselves black, and feel connected with Africa, but consider themselves American since they have been here so long, and aren't first or second generation.
Input on this, or am I just crazy? Be gentle I wrote this at 2:30.
P.S. I think we still need Black History Month because there are too many ig'nant fools and clowns out there. I had to explain to someone that Huey Newton DID NOT HAVE A BAND IN THE 1980's called "THE NEWS".