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Swastikas, slurs drawn on Black History Month posters at Oberlin

By hnn

…In the last month, racist, anti-Semitic and antigay messages have been left around [Oberlin College], a jarring incongruity in a place with the liberal political leanings and traditions of Oberlin, a school of 2,800 students in Ohio, about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. Guides to colleges routinely list it as among the most progressive, activist and gay-friendly schools in the country.

The incidents included slurs written on Black History Month posters, drawings of swastikas and the message “Whites Only” scrawled above a water fountain. After midnight on Sunday, someone reported seeing a person dressed in a white robe and hood near the Afrikan Heritage House. Mr. Krislov and three deans announced the sighting in a community-wide e-mail early Monday morning….

Source:
NYT

Source URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/education/oberlin-cancels-classes-after-series-of-hate-related-incidents.html

Date:
3-5-13

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Oberlin Cancels Classes Amid Racial Uproar

By Matt Cantor Oberlin has canceled classes today after a person was seen near the Ohio college’s African Heritage House in Ku Klux Klan-style robes, Gawker reports. The appearance follows a month of hate messages around campus, including Black History Month posters defaced with the N-word and “Whites Only” written above a water… …read more
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Ted Nugent: I Honor Blacks Every Day, Barack Obama Engineers Destruction Of Black America

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Ted Nugent clearly does not shy away from broaching potentially inflammatory racial topics.

In a Feb. 20 column written for ultra-conservative WorldNetDaily, the controversial conservative activist and proud National Rifle Association board member claims that, while he himself “honors blacks” every day, President Obama and his Democratic party are engineering the destruction of black America:

With February being Black History Month, historians looking back at this timeframe studying black Americans will judge it as a complete and total disaster. And they won’t blame President Bush.
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Black History Month: 9 Museums That Will Ship You a Piece of Our Past

By Bruce Watson

US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.  (Photo by Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)

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US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (White House /Getty Images)

It’s February, and America is celebrating its 37th federally-recognized Black History Month.

The observance originated back in the the 1920s as Negro History Week, set for the period that included the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It expanded into a month-long observance in 1970, and was nationally recognized by the government in…

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Wilt Chamberlain: Black History Photo Of The Day (PHOTO)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

A picture is certainly worth a thousand words. What better way to celebrate Black History Month than by taking a moment to acknowledge the snapshots of time that represent the struggle and triumph of African-Americans through the years?

As part of our Black History Month coverage, we will be featuring one photo a day that honors years of groundbreaking achievements within the black community. These photos bring tears to our eyes, instill pride in our hearts and motivate us to carry on the legacy of strength and perseverance.

Today’s photo was taken on January 31, 1972, showing basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain being awarded a backboard-and-hoop trophy after he becoming the all-time leading rebounder in NBA history.

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Why the next pope should be African

By BronxKnight

Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, was asked last week at the celebration of Black History Month in Toronto if he thought that the time was ripe for an African pope. His answer attracted much cheering from the crowd of over 500 Catholics of African descent.

He said: “The time for an African pope was ripe even in the time of the Apostolic Fathers in the first century of the church.

“I am not saying that I wish to be considered for the papacy, but the fact that the Gospel is to be preached to all peoples, languages, and races means that the highest leadership of the church should be open to anyone from any race, language and nation. I will not be surprised to see an African pope in my lifetime.”…
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CNN

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/opinion/african-pope-stan-llo/index.html?iref=allsearch

Date:
2-13-13

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

Remarks by the First Lady at the Beasts of the Southern Wild Workshop

By The White House

State Dining Room

11:07 A.M. EST

MRS. OBAMA: Hi! How is everybody? You guys good? Good morning!

AUDIENCE: Good morning.

MRS. OBAMA: I am thrilled, beyond thrilled. You guys excited to be here?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

MRS. OBAMA: Was it a good movie?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

MRS. OBAMA: Oh, wonderful. I am so glad you all are here to help us celebrate Black History Month at the White House. We're doing a bunch of stuff this month, but this is one of the highlights. And we are thrilled to be here with you all.

I want to start by thanking Rachel Goslins for agreeing to moderate the workshop today. Rachel is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. And what that means is that her job is to connect all Americans, especially young people, to music, art, dance and film. So thank you, Rachel, as always. Thanks for all your hard work, and — yes. (Applause.)

And, of course, I also want to thank our guests who are with us today — Benh Zeitlin, Dwight Henry, and Quvenzhané — my girl. Did I say that right? Did I get that right? Quvenzhané Wallis for being here today. Let's give them a round of applause. (Applause.)

But it's a special joy to have so many bright, smart and talented young people here. You guys are looking good. And I know that some of you have traveled all the way from New Orleans — is that correct? And many of you are here right from D.C., right in our neighborhood, our neighbors. But let me tell you, no matter where you've come from or how far you traveled, we're just glad you're here today to watch what I consider to be one of the most powerful and important movies that has been put out this year — or in a long time, quite frankly — Beasts of the Southern Wild.

And as I was telling the cast and the directors and the producers in the other room, I had the opportunity to watch this movie this summer with a large group of our friends and family. And the ages ranged from three to 75 years old — we had a big family. But it's rare these days to find a movie that can so completely and utterly captivate such a broad audience, and that was one of the things that struck me about this movie. It managed to be beautiful, joyful and devastatingly honest.

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Justin Bieber Woos SNL

By Polly Davis Doig Justin Bieber helmed last night’s Saturday Night Live, attempting to seduce audience members with roses and weird, often wrong, factoids about the intersection this month between Valentine’s Day and Black History Month. “Girl you’re driving me crazy, but did you also know Denzel Washington invented peanut butter?” he says in… …read more
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Smithsonian museums host series of programs to mark Black History Month

By hnn

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian is celebrating Black History Month with a series of programs in February.

Throughout the month, the National Museum of American History will present performances by historical characters in “Join the Student Sit-Ins.” Visitors will meet a civil rights activist from 1960 and take part in a training session based on an actual civil rights manual to prepare for a sit-in. The performance is presented Tuesdays through Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

On Monday, the National Museum of American History will mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by hosting a webcast for high school students. Scholars will reflect on the abolition movement of the 19th century….

Source:
AP

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Date:
2-7-13

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

A Tribute To Justice Clarence Thomas

By capblack

Clarence Thomas SC  A Tribute To Justice Clarence Thomas

(Author’s note: Originally posted on Right Voice Media.)

Happy American History Month to Justice Clarence Thomas!

I, through no power but my desire to unite Americans worth uniting, wish you a Happy American History Month.

You might have noticed that February is Black History Month. If we’re honest, it could more accurately be called Black Liberal History Month.

In typical liberal fashion, an observance once meant to highlight our American contribution instead became 28 divisive days where we can talk bad about White folks while they smile and take it.

Not quite my idea of uniting Americans.

God made me a deep, year-round brown. Running around telling folks “I’m Black! I’m Black! I’m Black!” isn’t just repetitive–it’s silly. And, racist, were the same done by an American who was White.

God also made me an American. Yes y’all, Black folks are Americans, too, no matter what our sun tanned, America-hating socialists preach. Every American comes from some unique group. Hate to disappoint inevitable critics, but American History Month isn’t about making black people less “Black.”

It’s about making AMERICAN Blacks, and all Americans period, unite more by using history as a common ground.

American History Month is dedicated to celebrating how what’s right with America triumphs over what’s wrong with America! It’s a timely message, especially now when American Blacks and Americans period are economically falling farther and farther behind.

Socialists use Black (Liberal) History Month to tell American Blacks (and Americans period) about what’s wrong with America.

Why can’t patriots use February to tell American Blacks and Americans period what’s right with America?

By the power vested in me by no one in particular, I now declare the month of February 2013 the first American History Month!

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, my fellow native of Savannah, GA, embodies American History Month’s celebration of what’s right with America!

That’s why he’s my first honoree. His life exemplifies how far one can go after opening his heart and mind to God and country!

He calls people who write him, opens his chambers to low-income schoolchildren, and unfailingly defends the original intent of our founding document.

Happy American History Month, Justice Thomas!

Cap Black The Hood Conservative
Founder of American History Month
as an alternative to Black ( Liberal )
History Month
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Black History Month In Perspective

By G. Michael Fielding

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In February, we will be celebrating Black History Month.  It is a time to reflect and remember how African Americans came out of the “mire and muck” of a time where they weren’t even considered to be human, to now when we finally have doctors, lawyers, judges, Supreme Court judges, congressman, congresswomen, leaders, business leaders, IT executives, and yes, now finally a President of the United States who happens to be Black.  Reading that on the surface, any ordinary person would think “this is great”; this is certainly something to celebrate and be encouraged by.  This is something people may wisely digest could inevitably help eliminate racism because it offers hope to other people who may be treated unfairly; and with a little bit of change in how we view others, true peace can be achieved.  But let us consider something that may be a little controversial.  Is Black History Month really a good thing?  Does it really help in eliminating racism?  Does it really offer a gleam of hope for those who are ill-treated and are the victims of racism themselves?  Or could it lead to something completely the opposite?  Could the concept of Black History Month be nothing more than the Manchurian poster child for equality?  Could it be something hidden?  Let us consider a few things:

Morgan Freeman, a four–time Oscar nominee, who finally won an Oscar for his supporting role in the film “Million Dollar Baby”, said that Black History Month is “ridiculous” and that it shouldn’t be relegated to a “month.”  Freeman had made this statement in a transcript on Today.com in which he also stated: “Black history is American history.”  He also pointed out that the only way to get rid of racism is to stop labeling one another as “black” or “white.”  “I’m going to stop calling you a white man,” Freeman said, “and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  (This is coming from a man associated with the Hollywood left.)

Black History month began with a man named Carter G. Woodson, who started the recognition of blacks in American history with something called Negro History Week in 1926.  It became known as Black History Month in 1976 and took up the entire month of February; and it has become quite a phenomenon here in the United States since.  With that said, some serious questions need to be asked about the state of Black History Month and about how the subject is being taught in our schools and proclaimed in our public libraries and bookstores.  Has anyone ever noticed a collage of the many black faces that grace the walls in our libraries and public schools during this time of the month?  Has anyone taken a look at the book shelves in the libraries and bookstores and glanced the required reading?  What faces do you see?  What books are you noticing?

Does anyone see pictures of Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Georg Washington Carver, along with many more such men and women like them?  If you do, that is fantastic!  Hopefully, faces like them will forever be enshrined into the posters and bookshelves representing Black History Month.  However, are there also pictures of Malcolm X?  Are there pictures of Spike Lee?  God forbid pictures of the heavily racist Louis Farrakhan?  Has anyone ever seen pictures of W.E.B Dubois, one of the founders of the NAACP and self-acknowledged Communist and hater of America?  If you have seen these faces on Black History posters, as I have on occasion, there is reason to be concerned.  Seriously concerned and downright angered.  Not a hate-filled anger, but a righteous, indignant anger towards injustice.

Would it be right for an African American to be angered towards a Caucasian pastor, for instance, who happened to have as a guest speaker at his church a guy who’s been known throughout the country to use racial bigotry in his messages?  Of course, they should be filled with rage, as I would expect them to.  Since we are all created equal, and since equality, justice, and fair treatment was something African Americans of old fought so hard to achieve – which is what Black History month is also about — then what comes with freedom and equality is the freedom and equality to also be wrong and mislead.  What comes with equality is the ability to be able to accept equal treatment on being labeled biased and for being accused of being irresponsible.  You see, when one notices the faces of the African American men I mentioned above, not of the former but of the latter, plastered on posters in libraries and in schools, there should be a righteous indignation and a “calling out” of what is displayed for our children to see.  The Blacks, as well as Whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc, need to be honored in American histories that have enriched our culture.  The bigoted ones, on the other hand, need to be called out.

Photo credit: Toban Black (Creative Commons)

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Be Bold: Escape The Black Trap

By capblack

Nadra Enzi Be Bold: Escape The Black Trap

In the 21st century, perceiving yourself as primarily “Black” to the exclusion of individuality is tantamount to inserting a foot into an ideological bear trap, which will maim you.

Hereafter dubbed “the Black trap”, this act of tribal self-checking allows liberals of all colors to move us on the American checkerboard without accountability.

Tribal desperation gave Obama high majorities of the Black vote twice, in exchange for economic devastation the likes of which we’ve never seen.

That’s tribal Blacks fault-not ritually invoked evil conservatives and Republicans. That’s the self-checked position one assumes while captive within the Black trap.

We who aren’t in the Black trap have no indebtedness to tribal mindsets that undermine merit, traditional values, and political options.

For the duration of Obama’s second term, I list my ethnicity as “Bold”, meaning an American who thinks as an individual instead of like an appendage attached to a collective.

Bold Americans who happen to be Black are citizens of the present. No recitation of past injustice outweighs current self-development and effort.

As bad as this economy is, especially for American Blacks, how is obsessing about yester-year supposed to improve things?

Bold thinkers disarm the Black trap, thinking for themselves instead of relying on debilitating downloads from the pigmentary politburo.

The Black trap isn’t White folks’ fault. Instead of deleting past patterns of servitude and mediocrity, they’ve metastasized into this self-checked mindset.

Black trap thinkers en masse are low level socialists who can’t hold the group accountable for anything.

The way their White former Soviet peers praised the butcher Stalin is how they laud Democrats who keep a foot firmly on their necks.

Chocolate Klansmen murdering inner-city residents with abandon are cast as victims of racism.

Politicians, executives, and activists who abuse the public trust through fraud and nepotism are cast as victims of racism.

This low-level socialism mandates the Black collective be blameless; and White conservatives are the culprit, despite freely chosen wrongdoing.

Low level Black trap thinkers are fodder for social programs funding a middle class of office overseers.

They are human statistics used to validate social service budgets liberal politicians inflate to reward donors and buddies.

The Black trap is behavioral baggage we’re better suited tossing on the ash bin of history, instead of carrying like anchors around our necks.

Be Bold; escape the Black trap and become an individual trying to maximize present (admittedly scarce) opportunities, instead of avoiding them.

If Black was beautiful in the 60s and 70s, Bold is better for the 21st Century!

Cap Black, The Hood Conservative, founded American History Month as an alternative to the liberal Black History Month.
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American History Month Coming Up In February!

By capblack

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American History Month is my suggestion for re-naming Black History Month, as balm in the cultural Gilead of ethnic tensions at the dawn of Obama 2.0.

Observers will note the redundancy of American Blacks citing our color before every occasion or organization naming given its self-evidence for anyone with eyes.

Conservatives have argued this double standard over the years. Simply uttering thought balloons labeled “White History Month” enrages liberals.

As founder of the American History Month alternative to Black History Month, I extend this offer to collegiate conservative and libertarian organizations:

I will be your February White History Month speaker under the titillating title, “Why This Black Conservative Promotes White History Month!”

My goal is exposing outdated, even divisive practices among Americans of all backgrounds. The flip side of my Black History Month alternative is assisting those challenging the same, by hosting White History observances to challenge this double standard.

While provocative, both proposals aim to shift focus away from ethnic cheerleading and onto a comprehensive American history uniting all segments.

Socialist, sixties-era ethnic enclaves ill-serve a 21st century America who has slain most of her dragons of overt discrimination (except, ironically, in government and higher education.)

My American History Month alternative to Black History Month is an olive branch to traditionalist countrymen feeling demonized at precisely the time when their values should be lauded.

Americans anxious to celebrate one accounting of all contributions to our country should consider my American History Month alternative to what’s become to many a divisive Black History Month.

Conservative or libertarian college organizations who desire a non-White supporter for February White History Month, anti-reverse discrimination events have my open invitation.

Celebrating Black folks as Americans, not outcasts, and challenging reverse discrimination are two of the best ways I know to use the month of February for.

We have another four long years of ethnic tension to navigate, and working to unite traditional values citizens of all colors is the best path to take!

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