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BLACK
HISTORY MONTH,
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
By Nachi Aguboshim, (Nachi,
like most African Children born in the diaspora
is trying to redefine himself.
He writes with passion and an open mind. Nachi
is an intern at the youth desk of African Echo
media group.) |
What is the true purpose of black history month?
Why do we as black people whose history spans over thousands of years have just one month a year to educate our people about our history? Why are we so content with taking a month that was most likely issued to us by the same government that still does not take
us seriously and controls us, not governs us?
Forget black history month; if the government truly wants to give us as black people something that will actually help us and our future generations give our people reparations. we want to get paid for every killing, every women that was raped, every piece of land that taken from us, every child that lost their parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunties and grandparents through the middle passage, every commodity that was stolen from our mother land, for the years of slavery and colonialism, for the systematic destruction of our African race.
Also we want the educational system to teach people, not just black people about the true history of the black race and I’m not talking about the deluded history that the media has established.
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I’m talking about the power of the Egyptians the first BLACK civilisation and civilization to set up a law system i.e. police officers and a justice system, develop technology i.e. baths and carriages, build a society (pyramids). And open the eyes of the world to the fact that we as black people set up the foundations of the world. |
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Why do you think the Europeans came over to Africa? They didn’t come for a holiday they saw the potential of the people on the continent. The continent was a threat and with that they couldn’t let us progress, that’s why the pynx’s nose is missing? That wasn’t a constructional error that was merely another way to erase the memory of black history and exactly what we have done for the world and the progression that it has taken.
If you want to help black people tell me how and why guns are so assessable in black communities, how do guns g et into the hands of black 13 year-old boys and girls in the same urban areas that you have set up? That question isn’t rhetorical the answer is obvious.
Government buys these guns for the police to do what ‘they’ call govern. These guns eventually reach the black communities and misguided black youngsters living in societies where their only hope is to kill or be killed, a principle that truly sickens me, go from being kings and queens to prison graduates. By this we are seen as being no more then savages in today’s world.
If you want to help black people take the drugs out the streets, stop concocting drugs in government labs fir them to eventually end up being sold in the streets of black communities. Crack, heroine and cocaine are all created drugs that were originally made to do one thing, destroy and then eventually control. If our governments can send up troops to Iraq and Afghanistan then it should do same to rid our communities of the bad elements.
The time has came to stop looking or blaming these factors on the impressionable minorities that in reality don’t have the capabilities or financial backing to create such products, but look towards the governments that control what goes in and comes out of their countries.
If you want to help black people give Africa and the Caribbean it’s independence, and though it states Jamaica for example was given it’s independence in 1962, the IMF and the World Bank have seen that that is a worthless as the paper that it was written on.
Once we have sorted out these problems, maybe then Black History Month will have some kind of meaning. Let me not forget the influence of Malcolm X, Dr Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Ray Charles, The Million Man March and the list goes on, why is there no mention of these historical figures and events?
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