Topic: A Proclamation on National Black History Month, 2021 (Read 111 times)
I support the movements on black persons to have their rights, but this celebration is really cringy and unnecessary. We can reminisce the success of such movements, but the call of the celebration is really not needed.
I remember a few years back when they asked Morgan Freeman if he wants a Black History Month, and he outright declined it. As long as there is no White/Jewish/Indian History month there shouldn't be a Black one either. Why not just call it the American history month? There more we talk about black and white the more people will see towards these difference. Morgan Freeman said the best thing would be to not talk so much about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
I would readily accept a black history month, if all the rest of them were white history months.
I remember a few years back when they asked Morgan Freeman if he wants a Black History Month, and he outright declined it. As long as there is no White/Jewish/Indian History month there shouldn't be a Black one either. Why not just call it the American history month? There more we talk about black and white the more people will see towards these difference. Morgan Freeman said the best thing would be to not talk so much about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
If David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman narrated it, I’ve probably watched it :-)
Don’t totally agree with “not talking about it” *still love ya Morgan
It would be more instructive to learn how to talk about it.
I remember a few years back when they asked Morgan Freeman if he wants a Black History Month, and he outright declined it. As long as there is no White/Jewish/Indian History month there shouldn't be a Black one either. Why not just call it the American history month? There more we talk about black and white the more people will see towards these difference. Morgan Freeman said the best thing would be to not talk so much about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
I would rather see us integrating history. Recognizing the ways we’ve failed (as humans) and the achievements we’ve made together. As with everything: history is told with a “spin” and we lose something of value when we do that. We lose the perspective needed to advance beyond the mistakes and build forward.
There are things in human nature which served us well for survival in the past but hinder us now.
There are things in human nature which served us well for survival in the past but hinder us now.
What nation? Which national?
When I read a presidential proclamation of some kind, it might somehow apply to my strawman person (which can't move without me). But it doesn't apply to me, the man, except if I want it to.
It's too bad that people don't recognize that their citizenship in the US is only strawman/person citizenship, but that they as people aren't directly affected except if they want to be.
When I read a presidential proclamation of some kind, it might somehow apply to my strawman person (which can't move without me). But it doesn't apply to me, the man, except if I want it to.
It's too bad that people don't recognize that their citizenship in the US is only strawman/person citizenship, but that they as people aren't directly affected except if they want to be.
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This February, during Black History Month, I call on the American people to honor the history and achievements of Black Americans and to reflect on the centuries of struggle that have brought us to this time of reckoning, redemption, and hope.
We have never fully lived up to the founding principles of this Nation –- that all people are created equal and have the right to be treated equally throughout their lives. But in the Biden-Harris Administration, we are committed to fulfilling that promise for all Americans.
I am proud to celebrate Black History Month with an Administration that looks like America –- one that reflects the full talents and diversity of the American people and that heralds many firsts, including the first Black Vice President of the United States and the first Black Secretary of Defense, among other firsts in a cabinet that is comprised of more Americans of color than any other in our history.
It is long past time to confront deep racial inequities and the systemic racism that continue to plague our Nation. A knee to the neck of justice opened the eyes of millions of Americans and launched a summer of protest and stirred the Nation’s conscience.
A pandemic has further ripped a path of destruction through every community in America, but we see its acute devastation among Black Americans who are dying, losing jobs, and closing businesses at disproportionate rates in the dual crisis of the pandemic and the economy.
We saw how a broad coalition of Americans of every race and background registered and voted –- more people than in any other election in our Nation’s history –- to heal these wounds and unite and move forward as a Nation.
But also less than 1 month after the attack on the Capitol, on our very democracy, by a mob of insurrectionists –- of extremists and white supremacists –- a bookend of the last 4 years and the hate that marched from the streets of Charlottesville, and that shows we remain in a battle for the soul of America.
We must bring to our work a seriousness of purpose and urgency. That is why we are putting our response to COVID-19 on a war footing and marshalling every resource we have to contain the pandemic, deliver economic relief to millions of Americans who desperately need it, and build back better than ever before.
That is why we are also launching a first-ever whole‑government-approach to advancing racial justice and equity across our Administration –- in health care, education, housing, our economy, our justice system, and in our electoral process. We do so not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is the smart thing to do, benefitting all of us in this Nation.
We do so because the soul of our Nation will be troubled as long as systemic racism is allowed to persist. It is corrosive. It is destructive. It is costly. We are not just morally deprived because of systemic racism, we are also less prosperous, less successful, and less secure as a Nation.
We must change. It will take time. But I firmly believe the Nation is ready to make racial justice and equity part of what we do today, tomorrow, and every day. I urge my fellow Americans to honor the history made by Black Americans and to continue the good and necessary work to perfect our Union for every American.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2021 as National Black History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
third day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
We have never fully lived up to the founding principles of this Nation –- that all people are created equal and have the right to be treated equally throughout their lives. But in the Biden-Harris Administration, we are committed to fulfilling that promise for all Americans.
I am proud to celebrate Black History Month with an Administration that looks like America –- one that reflects the full talents and diversity of the American people and that heralds many firsts, including the first Black Vice President of the United States and the first Black Secretary of Defense, among other firsts in a cabinet that is comprised of more Americans of color than any other in our history.
It is long past time to confront deep racial inequities and the systemic racism that continue to plague our Nation. A knee to the neck of justice opened the eyes of millions of Americans and launched a summer of protest and stirred the Nation’s conscience.
A pandemic has further ripped a path of destruction through every community in America, but we see its acute devastation among Black Americans who are dying, losing jobs, and closing businesses at disproportionate rates in the dual crisis of the pandemic and the economy.
We saw how a broad coalition of Americans of every race and background registered and voted –- more people than in any other election in our Nation’s history –- to heal these wounds and unite and move forward as a Nation.
But also less than 1 month after the attack on the Capitol, on our very democracy, by a mob of insurrectionists –- of extremists and white supremacists –- a bookend of the last 4 years and the hate that marched from the streets of Charlottesville, and that shows we remain in a battle for the soul of America.
We must bring to our work a seriousness of purpose and urgency. That is why we are putting our response to COVID-19 on a war footing and marshalling every resource we have to contain the pandemic, deliver economic relief to millions of Americans who desperately need it, and build back better than ever before.
That is why we are also launching a first-ever whole‑government-approach to advancing racial justice and equity across our Administration –- in health care, education, housing, our economy, our justice system, and in our electoral process. We do so not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is the smart thing to do, benefitting all of us in this Nation.
We do so because the soul of our Nation will be troubled as long as systemic racism is allowed to persist. It is corrosive. It is destructive. It is costly. We are not just morally deprived because of systemic racism, we are also less prosperous, less successful, and less secure as a Nation.
We must change. It will take time. But I firmly believe the Nation is ready to make racial justice and equity part of what we do today, tomorrow, and every day. I urge my fellow Americans to honor the history made by Black Americans and to continue the good and necessary work to perfect our Union for every American.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2021 as National Black History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
third day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
Source: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/03/a-proclamation-on-national-black-history-month-2021/
Surely this will cause some insightful political chatter
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