Here we go again. Like drug commercials dwelling among TV nightly news shows by the ton, here come a rapid-fire barrage of daily accounts and televised feature stories about black history.
Why? Isn't it way beyond time to discontinue this artifact of the so-called civil rights struggle era? With the arrival of the Internet, interested people and organizations have before them a treasure chest of black history, requiring no longer a need to plaster posters and in-your-face reminders everywhere of the good, the bad, the ugly, the black and the brown.
I know, I'm just some old white guy, and to some this kind of talk makes me suitable to wear a Klan outfit as I burn crosses in the yards of colored people of color colored folk.
Actually, when I served in Air Force hospitals during the Vietnam years, many of my patients, obviously, were of other colors, and I treated everybody equally. At one hospital, my supervisor was a black man and he wrote glowing performance reports about me. Probably because I'm such a racist.
Nevertheless, for reasons which escape me in 2025, we're again doing a month's worth of tribute to black history, same old, same old, and I suppose I should contribute something of substance -- so here are my meager offerings:
o Law enforcement personnel overwhelmingly kill many more white people than black people every year, FAR more. There is not a national attempt for cops to seek out and purposely murder black people -- with the caveat that yes, there is a tiny percentage of bad cops who do terrible things to people of all races, and they are generally found out and removed. No credible officer gets out of bed each day and plots to murder individuals encountered during his or her shift, and the fact that certain so-called black justice entities work hard to keep this lie alive in the public light should tell us everything we need to know about their intentions.
o Black people murder more black people than any other race involved in black homicide. You just don't hear about the statistics by way of the complicit legacy media. You never have to any fair degree.
o Democrats are the original racists, responsible for the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, lynching of black people, and as strident obstacles against and opponents to civil rights legislation in Congress (thank the Republicans for getting such legislation passed). By twisting facts over the decades, the political left has managed as if by magic to make those on the right appear the enemies of black civil rights and they the shining champions.
o Everybody's favorite lovable Democrat Joe Biden and his gang purposely flooded the United States with millions of illegal aliens, and those invaders threatened and took away jobs usually held by black people because they accepted lower wages. Employers hiring at the back door were delighted, while you, the colored people of color colored folks were shut out. THIS is black history in America.
o Immigration attorneys: They're a part of black history because some of these folks are currently working to keep illegal aliens in the country, keeping jobs black people might otherwise have.
o Martin Luther King. Hmm. Well, those secret files are coming out and I think I'll just let this one go for now. . .just in case. . .
o George Washington Carver (1864-1943). Yes, that old black textbook standby. the U.S. botanist and agricultural chemist who invented multiple uses for peanuts, soy beans and sweet potatoes. Loved by all, just think of how despised he might have been, had he invented hundreds of uses for spinach, kale and brussels sprouts.
o Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and all the black jazz and blues singers of the 1920s, thirties and forties whose heartfelt and soulful songs make rap and hip-hop as worthless as dog poop on a guitar pick.
o So, is an African-American African or American? To be born in America, but needing to tack the African designation onto the American word as a prelude comes off as a bit schizophrenic by now.
o Black Lives Matter is also a part of black history, but you might want to check out BLM's own history in detail. It's not exactly pretty.
Well, that's about it for my contributions to Black History Month this year. Yes, I'm aware that somewhere on the calendar is White History Month, sort of, but nobody much cares about that or anything good created by those of such forgettable ancestry.
