Is Black History Month Still Relevant?
Is Black History Month helping expand the divide between two segments of American society? When originally conceived, Black History Week (now, a full month) was established to combat racism, and to stress the importance of the contributions of those citizens of African heritage to the American culture and society, and to establish pride in being part of that segment of society. And well they should, those brave pioneers who stood up and created this awareness campaign, in an era of Jim Crow laws, rampant lynching, cross-burning, attacking the racist separatist movement that forced that segment of America to the back of the bus and the door in the rear of the restaurant. But today, has Black History Month become a tool for maintaining that wedge between African Americans and the rest of American society, promoting the very separatism that it was created to destroy? Black History Week was first started in 1926, and 50 years later was turned into an entire month. The original promoters of
