February is a wholly depressing month. It’s cold, bleak, and Valentine’s Day reminds you of how much you’re not getting laid. Although the coming of February thankfully rids us of drunken, sweaty football fans full of cheap beer and hot wings, this horrid month is dominated by racial pandering so awful that, if I was a black man, I’d probably punch a white guy in the face.
Then again, if I was Kimbo Slice, I'd punch EVERYBODY in the face.
Black History Month reminds us that black people are totally important to the American narrative, but not so important that their role in US history can be woven into our history books without special treatment. We get to hear about Martin Luther King and old ladies causing various ruckuses on public transportation systems, but in kissing Afro-American ass throughout the month, the white power structure allows itself to give even more reach-arounds to slave owning capitalists that, despite having a lot of good ideas about freedom and whatnot, really seemed to enjoy killing Indians, whipping blacks, and laughing at Irish people. Although the Irish may have deserved it.
Motherfuckers.
There’s a hidden chunk of American history that we rarely read about. And that’s understandable, because your average history teacher won’t tell you about it. The role of the oppressed, the working-class, and the poor is largely ignored by the white power structure because if everyone learned about how their great-grandfathers were clunked on the head while trying to unionize, well, there might not be a white power structure. Voices of revolution and dissent throughout history are silenced, especially the dissenting voices of black America. Black History Month is a tool of the white power structure that helps keep these revolutionary ideas about race, equality, and social status on the back burner. Or, more accurately, in the basement right next to the Native American genocide and the Ludlow Massacre.
By pandering to the racial sensitivities of totally pissed off black people for one shitty month (couldn’t they at least pick May or June to trivialize black history?), our leaders and owners get to ignore not only the true impact of black American history, but the history of the angry Americans who, in the words of America’s greatest philosopher, were fucked by a red, white, and blue dick.
After all, a great symptom of a politically sick society is the ownership class’s love of pitting the have-nots against each other. For instance, the white working-class gets really angry about Affirmative Action, which benefits blacks, among others. With that, we have a division among the have-nots, even though blue collar whites have more in common with blue collar blacks than they do with the money-out-the-asshole conservative jerkoffs who vilify almost any attempt at progressive change. Might this hostile outlook change if working-class white people learned that black citizens were also fucked in the ass when America’s manufacturing sector suddenly vanished? Or if they learned that the Attica Prison Riots saw whites, Latinos, and blacks come together to demand half-decent living conditions?
“Shut up commie!” says the rich guy who can buy and sell our sorry asses.
Of course, we at Lib Porn don’t advocate a big, pink, fluffy liberal ideal of hug-a-black-man. That type of thinking is condescending and, at its core, detrimental to racial equality as a whole. However, imagine the current instability and financial WTFs of the poor and working-class and how all of that could change we realized we have a lot more in common with each other than we do with most of our (divisive, greedy, and retarded) political leaders. We peons could vote our way into racial and economic equality that America promises. You know, all that life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness stuff we’re always hearing about, except without the institutional racism and economic stratification (both of which usually end with you being out of a job or, if you’re lucky, watching the history of your people get limited to the cruddiest month of the year).
Pictured: February
No, black history isn’t a detriment to race relations. The history of black Americans, plus all the other people in America who have been silenced or ignored, should be jammed into our mainstream history books. However, Black History Month is bullshit. How can a certain segment of history be on par with the others if we limit it, or spend a month highlighting it while we ignore it the rest of the year? This is just another symptom of the Great American Race Problem. If you don’t think so, walk into a blue-collar bar in Philly and ask the first white guy you see about how he feels about Black History Month. He’s likely to dismiss it, possibly with a few unkind words, even though the plight of blacks mirrors the plight of that white guy’s great-grandpop, who was one of those old-timers that were clunked on the head at a union rally back in 1920.
At the very least, we should move Black History Month to the springtime. February fucking sucks. It almost sucks as much as our elite sucking up to black America while stabbing them in the back.
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