Its February! Happy Black History Month !

[pat grimshaw]

...American History remains, regardless of many people's bloated sense of "having stuff about other groups forced down their throat all the time, essentially still a story about mainstream history... in a formal textbook

You have to know 'the big picture' before delving into the details so you can appreciate them in context.

So many school kids resent having to attend school at all let alone having a basic education being 'forced down their throat'.

E.G. http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...orced-to-read-in-high-school?highlight=school

 

[xbuzzerx]

You have to know the main stuff before you delve into the details. You need 'the big picture' and the context before seeing the details.

You mention stuff being 'forced down their throat'— this earlier thread shows how many school kids resented a basic education being 'forced down their throat'.

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...orced-to-read-in-high-school?highlight=school

You're only obliquely relating to the point I was making at all, which is kind of usual.

People talk about a sidebar about Harriet Tubman or a week on civil rights out of a school year as "always being forced to hear about blacks" the same way that straight people upon even hearing that someone has a boyfriend talk about "homos always shove it in your face", with no sense of proportion.

 

[BFizzle]

As the caucasian ambassador for this forum I'd like to marinate on the fact that the legendary lineup of Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl last night.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ they certainly were no 'sidebar' during the match

 

[BFizzle]

As the caucasian ambassador for this forum I'd like to marinate on the fact that the legendary lineup of Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl last night.

Oh, Kelly and Michelle too. I guess.

 

[xbuzzerx]

^ they certainly were no 'sidebar' during the match

Oh please Pat. Obama's had 2 terms. His inauguration celebrating a lot of accomplished black Americans is overwhelming forcefeeding compared to the total history of white Presidential inaurugations going back 200 years?

 

[ChickenGuy]

I think you may be talking about the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The bridge you're referring to is the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday.

Article about the Clintons in Selma here

Is that what you were talking about?

Yes! That's the one! Thanks Hunty!

I searched the event on Youtube and found a link courtesy of Fox News,

....but nevertheless they make the point I remembered.

Hilary 'speaking' in Selma, Alabama.

^ It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? Trying to pretend like she's a Southern preacher of the same talking style that you see from the pulpit of the church services. I'd have been a bit offended by that if I were one of the crowd, she just seems to be pandering.

 

[MissAnne]

What I learned about my own city:

Pennsylvania Hall was built in 1838 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. This group, (Black and White) raised over $40,000 to build a safe place to gather peacefully and discuss their beliefs. The building was burned to the ground by rioters three days after it was built. Firemen stood by and watched it burned. Anyone that attempted to put out the fires were attacked by the rioters.

One of the main problems that the rioters had was the fact that Blacks and Whites were meeting together.

 

[xbuzzerx]

^ MissAnne, is it bad that when I saw that 2nd picture I thought it was a representation of JUB?

 

[pat grimshaw]

...^ It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? Trying to pretend like she's a Southern preacher of the same talking style that you see from the pulpit of the church services. I'd have been a bit offended by that if I were one of the crowd, she just seems to be pandering.

Yes. She is a politician which is very much like play-acting. She may have Illeism or one of those mental conditions that Johann Bessler keeps on advocating.

 

[MissAnne]

^ MissAnne, is it bad that when I saw that 2nd picture I thought it was a representation of JUB?

LOL, why ?

 

[MissAnne]

Today in Black History:

Columbia University graduate and Harvard University law student Barack Obama became the first African American named president of the Harvard Law Review

-Pink Progressives

 

[Ganoderma]

Black Same Sex Couples These people arent famous but these flickr photos are worth looking at.
Here is the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hidden-in-the-open/sets/72157624480472079/detail/

Very nice pictures, but I was wondering how sure it is that all of these guys are gay, or just (close) friends of each other. My PC does not have speakers, so I cannot listen to the video

So I like the pictures very much, as they give a nice insight in the past. But I do get the idea that the majority of these pictures (especially the ones with only a very vague (or no information at all) about site & date & circumstances are plates of (random) guys (without knowing anything about their sexual activities / interests).

Thanks in advance for providing me some insight in this topic.

 

[gsdx]

Very nice pictures, but I was wondering how sure it is that all of these guys are gay, or just (close) friends of each other.

The narrators says about Dr. Christopher West, the professor of history examining the photos at the 2:45 mark, "Whether it's a romantic relationship or just a platonic friendship, one thing is very clear. These men were fearless."

Dr. West: "And I think what you're seeing in some of the images is, there's clearly a courage. If you're choosing to memorialize the image, one can presume that, on the spectrum of 'I'm going to conform' and 'I'm going to be who I am', that you're seeing men toward 'I'm going to be who I am'."

Some photos were inscribed on the back with some rather 'telling' information. Otherwise, it is the photos themselves which reveal that the feelings seem to go beyond mere friendship.

Here's the website link again. Go visit it and look at the photos more closely: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hidden-in-the-open/sets/72157624480472079/detail/

 

[MissAnne]

So I like the pictures very much, as they give a nice insight in the past. But I do get the idea that the majority of these pictures (especially the ones with only a very vague (or no information at all) about site & date & circumstances are plates of (random) guys (without knowing anything about their sexual activities / interests).

Yeah, I wondered that myself. Some of them are pretty obvious. The collector said that on the back of one picture someone wrote "Bob and his special friend" lol. So they could probably be determined as a couple. I also suspect that he gathered some of the photos from people that actually knew the men and probably could give some information on the nature of their relationship.

Either way, its nice to see Black men being affectionate towards one another. You don't often see that in today's culture.

 

[MissAnne]

Claudette Colvin at 15, refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger nine months before Rosa Parks' famous bus boycott. The NAACP didn't want to use her in the movement because she became a unwed teenage mother and they didn't think that she sent the correct message.

Contrary to popular belief, Rosa Park's boycott was done purposefully and was orchestrated by the NAACP. Parks was an educated, NAACP Secretary.

 

[MisterMajestic]

Black History in Music:

@ the 2005 GRAMMY awards John Legend became the first Black Male Solo Artist to win “Best New Artist”…It took 48yrs...

 

[MisterMajestic]

ThatGirl I see you're expanding Black History month in America across the water...LOL...

 

[chrisrobin]

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Interested in Black History? Consider reading:

Howard Zinn reveals the Black POV that you don't get in standard U.S. History textbooks.

 

[MisterMajestic]

Black History in Theatre:

In 2004 Phylicia Rashad became the First Black woman to win the Tony award for Best Leading Actress in the play “A Raisin in the Sun”..