Oh yeah... it is Black History Month in the US. Images of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are dutifully being trotted out. At the end of the month, they'll be put back in mothballs.
I don't mean to downplay the contributions of either to US society, but I do get tired of so many people treating the contributions of different ethnic and racial groups as something to be trotted out for one month a year... and none of the more challening issues get discussed.
And... how DARE you leave out your Nordic, pre-Celtic, and other selves? Sheesh.
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Date: 2007-02-19 02:33 pm (UTC)I don't mean to downplay the contributions of either to US society, but I do get tired of so many people treating the contributions of different ethnic and racial groups as something to be trotted out for one month a year... and none of the more challening issues get discussed.
And... how DARE you leave out your Nordic, pre-Celtic, and other selves? Sheesh.