In this op-ed, Jenn M. Jackson, a writer, activist, and Ph.D. candidate in American politics at the University of Chicago, explains the significance of Black History Month.
We sat in a small group of all black students on our dorm floor where only black students lived—a “themed” floor named after the first black students to graduate from the university. It was set aside for black students at the private, predominantly white college and meant to foster togetherness in a sea of perpetual difference.
“Over the past couple of weeks, Warriors have been reminded on the morning announcements that February is Black History Month. While at first glance Black History Month may appear to be a long-overdue recognition of blacks’ contribution to American history, it is actually subtly racist against blacks because of the unspoken separatist assumptions upon which the month is based,” it read.
Black history month is used by the Establishment to codify and pacify any revolutionary message great black leaders have given to their people. It does not celebrate anything but strict moralism as it does very little material good other than bringing benign nonsense to the front
JennMJacksonPhD 'rep·a·ra·tion /ˌrepəˈrāSH(ə)n/  Learn to pronounce noun 1the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.'the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim'
JennMJacksonPhD Black history month is for anyone who isn't black to understand black contributions, Especially white people, reparations have annual monetary value, which black people have yet to receive across the African diaspora.
What about 'sex' differences? Oh, I forgot: misogyny is now the elephant in the room.
people were thrown overboard, lynched, murdered in cold blood, dragged, beaten, raped... this month is not a form a reparations for all of that. It's an acknowledgement.
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no it is not reparations. JennMJack
cannot even read beyond this Trash Ass Racist pathetic headline 👎
Calling this month reparations? Are we trying to pay back black people with exposure?
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