We should have a White History month!
 

Why isn't there a White History Month? There is a Black History Month, Hispanic Culture month and a bunch of weeks and days devoted to certain cultures. But why, in a country where we value equality, is there no White History Month?

When I have asked before, I have gotten such answers as "Every day is White History Month," "We don't deserve it," and "There is no such thing as White culture, it is too varied."

So my answers to that have been always looked down upon. As for every day being white history month, what are we reminded of when we look at White history? Let's give an example of my History class. This year we have learned about Africa, Latin America and India, among other things. When we learned about White People in those place, we went into and royally fucked everything up and ruined everything. Now my school has a Western history and American history so I am not attacking the class specifically. What I am saying, is that I have learned what terrible things white people have have done, but rarely of what bad things other races have done. We celebrate what great things Black people and Hispanics have done, but why not the white man? We have brought you many things such as:
Chicken Pox Vaccine
The Printing Press
The Computer
The Television
The Phone
The Post-Office
So, is the White man still not worth celebrating? Also, if you are learning about your country's history and it happens to have whites being a big part of it, it isn't WHITE HISTORY. It is only WHITE HISTORY, if you focus only on WHITES ON PURPOSE, like Black History Month does.

As for we don't deserve it, we do deserve it. Maybe those who went into to Africa to steal people for slaves or those involved in the Amritsar Massacre in India don't, but we didn't do those actions, even if our ancestors are related to them.

As for there being no White culture, maybe there isn't. But if there is no white culture, there is no Black Culture. If you disagree, I ask you to provide me something that they all have in common other than appearances. But White's still have history, mixed with good and bad. However, everyone feels so guilty for all the bad, e.g. slavery, giving small pox blankets to the natives, that we forget the good we have done. If other races get a month, in a country founded on equality, why shouldn't we?

Perhaps making a White History month would raise White Pride. I am not talking about the KKK or Nazi kind of White Pride, I am talking about having a little pride in your race. When people say Black Pride, it is looked upon as a good thing because they are being proud of who they are. When people say White Pride, it conjures up, not images of great past White people, but people in the South wearing a KKK outfit.

I believe it was last year, but on one season of Survivor, they created some controversy. The producers divided the teams based on race. It would have been no different than dividing them on hair or eye color, but it still caused much controversy. I remember Hispanic people rooting for the Hispanic team, the black people rooting for the black team, but the white people were awkwardly silent. Most of them were too afraid of appearing racist by wanting a white team to win.

But is giving these minorities a month actually belittling them? Think about it. When one refers to Abraham Lincoln, he is a "great AMERICAN president." Now, when one refers to George Washington Carver, he is a "great AFRICAN-AMERICAN scientist." Why not just a great scientist? Do we feel the need to specifically pick out there race and since they aren't the majority, we point them out, give them a pat on the head and treat? And this bring me to my next point...

The White race has done so much for society, and it doesn't have a month. By giving the other minorities are we somehow proclaiming ourselves on top saying ""We are so great, we don't need a month."

On the Television, I saw an ad for a "Black Adoption Agency." I wondered something. Would people be offended if it was a "white adoption agency" which only had white kids? My guess would probably be a "yes" because a lot of white people are afraid of being racist.


What I think should happen is one of the following:
I think we should make a White History month to celebrate all the great white people there have been over the years.
-or-
I think we should abolish all celebratory months because in a country where we believe in equality and establish an appreciation month for everyone or maybe for proffessions.
So, to discuss:
Should there be a white history month?
Should we get rid of all those months?
Why are white people so damn afraid of being racist?
Or anything else you find controversial in my post.

Simply because the history we learn is WHITE history.

Really think about it, if you so care. The majority of those you focus on while learnign through out school is of White History, White Cultural and white everything. We have the spereate months, because with out is, that history would be getting passed up, while no matter what, we will always learn about white history.

As you pointed out the "white Race" has done so much for society, that it is celebrated damn near every day.

Our society it's self is not in a state that it can be rid of things such as Black History Month or Hispanic History month. We are not any where near coloured blind, or away from race mattering. Race still matters, and you still get more pluses being a White Middle Class male in this society.

Please, look at television, look at see how many of the major shows feature a mostly white cast, with most miniorities being stereotyped. Look at music, look at your own school. White history and cultural is celebrated damn near every day and shown as the good cultural, while we have to give attention to the others just so we know they actually exist and are there.

The other problem is going in general as White History/Cultural. Many see that as an all in compassing hate of other races. While if you change that to something as Irish/German/English/Norwegian/Swiss and so fourth pride, your taking pride in what that cultural speffically build versus's saying that all "white" did is awesome and wonderful and makes us better.

To be honest, I'm sick of white history. :?

If I never learn anything more about white history, the better. (I am the whitest white person ever) XD;;

Well. I learned about the printing press in English and SOSE. I learned anout other things on your list in science class. I leanred most of the things on your list through day to day life, though childrens television will tell kids all about the post office.

When you learn in history that white people colonized and invaded other peoples, that is white history. You're upset because you only learn the bad things that the white race does? That can't be true, how do you funcion in day to day life without having heard of anything good done by white people. You'd have to live under a rock not to have heard of the things on your little list there.


It is white history when we learn Edison invented the telephone, as it is white history when we learn about Madame Curie. When you learn about the people of Rome, that's white history too. Ever learned about the vikings? Guess what? White history!

Black History Month exists because without it, thewre wasn't much in the way of black history being taught, on purpose or not. If you learn about white history everyday then guess what bucko, you don't need to purposely focus on it. You say white history is only white history if you focus on it specifically, I say that 'insert minority history' month exists because if it didn't, there would be no focus on it at all.

White history is white history no matter how you come to be focusing on it.

Also, you say that perhaps the people who invaded other countries don't deserve the white history, but the rest of you do. Well... white people still get benefits n society today. White people still benefit from the riches gained from their parents, that will include slavetrading parents or not. So where do we draw the line, do we draw it off which families never had anything to do with the oppression of black people? If you had a single family member down the line who didn't like the idea of black people voting, then that's you too.

White people don't need a month. They don't need a month, because they have it all year round. It doesn't matter if the month is specifically designated to them or not. As long as you're learning it, you're learning it after all.

And what about Chinese history month?

Are you, like... Gone in the head? A white history month? for people who claimed themself the perfect race and used blacks as their slaves? I was born in south africa, a white boy, we had a black servant of our own, but she was like family to me, I hate racists and I hate white vs black, the last thing we need is a white history month after all the pain we've cause the black people. My brother in law is a black man too, and screw in law, that man is my brother, the black race deserve things like that as way for use to try and be forgiven. Unfortunately there can be some black people who are more racist than whites, but we definitely do not need a white history month, we have friggin millenia behind our back published the shit out of itself.

You know what we really need? a Cheesecake Appreciation day!! xD

how about no race months at all. It is pretty stupid to begin with.
If you are going to talk about history, you should talk about it all together, for it is easier to understand it that way.
That is why I liked my AP World History class because it combined all the different regions in parts of the book and said how things were pretty straightforward.

Conversly, there are black activist groups that are sick of people saying "Lets not look at race, we should all be equal, and race shouldn't matter!" because it means people start ignoring the very real problems regarding racism that people of colour are still having to deal with.

I think that we shouldn't have ANY month for any minority OR majority. People complain about how they're a minority, and yet they put themselves in the position for it.

"I'm a minority, so lets have a month/week/whatever proclaiming that I'm a minority!"

It's just stupid in my opinion.

Oh, and to make clear, I'm a "minority".

I cannot comment on the personal situation beyond saying that if a man made a racist comment, and she was of that race, it shouldn't matter if he said it about her or not. If the guy was making fun of someone for being black (or whatever colour they were) he would have been by proxy saying that black people are worthy of insult because of their skin colour.

(i.e "He's a fucking nigger" might have been said to insult a black man named Joe, but the insult implies that being a nigger is a bad thing to be, so a different black man might find it offensive, and well, it would have been offensive.)

If you don't fraw attention to inequalities that exist, then you ignore them. if you don't pay attention to inequalities, statistics for example which conclude that black women have a %33 higher chance of being raped in their lifetimes, then you're not going to be able to put in the education reforms, and rape crisis centres into the communities.

If you don't highlight the real issues black people have had, and still have today, you don't recognize those issues, and you can't take steps to fix them.

Everyone won't be equal if we just pretend that they are.

Well, there is Asian Pacific American month, it's May. It's mean to be a celebration for Asians and Pacific Islanders living in america, though I don't think it's a history month persay.

They have a Native American week. Though, I only just learned about it this year. I'm half Native American.