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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

You know what I hate? Black history month. It’s the epitome of everything that it pretends to be against. We're supposed to be celebrating all the equality in America brought about by the civil rights movement. But instead we're showcasing all sorts of "We like African American People" stuff in our newspapers and on TV. All we've done is changed from one kind of racism to another. Racism is, and I quote from dictionary.com, "The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others." Black history month or as it used to be called, February is a prime example of putting one "race" before another. One of the arguments is that we are making up for all those years of oppression that the black people had to suffer. By the same logic all of the white people should be enslaved for a couple hundred years and we can just call it even. The past is the past and it should stay there. Of course I could also bring up the fact that there were black people in early colonial times who came over as indentured servants, paid their debts and went on to own black slaves, but that would be using reason, something that cant be done in discussions of political correctness.

It's cold outside
There's no kind of atmosphere
I’m all alone
More or less
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun

¶ 2/11/2004 11:29:00 AM

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