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Originally Posted by MitsyMayhem
Partly and then no he's not.
If we 'stop talking about it', people will forget and while that's good that people are being looked at as people, what happens if it surges up again? People probably won't realize how bad it is because they've never learned about it and I'm afraid history might repeat itself in a new form of discrimination. The history of slavery shows exactly how terrible human nature and can and most of all why racism is wrong. Not to mention I wouldn't want such a horrific experience to just dwindle into nothing. Because it wasn't nothing. Same with the holocaust.
Also, part of what he said was basically what I said. I said that we need BET for now, but I don't like having one. It's the same concept with Black History Month.
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No one is going to forget--that's just stupid.
When people say "stop talking about it," I don't think they mean remove all evidence that slavery and racism ever happened, I think they mean to stop putting so much focus on it.
And no, we don't need crap like BET and Black History Month. Both of those things only serve to separate black people further. If black people need their on channel, people ask why. The only answer that makes sense would be that black people are somehow so fundamentally different that they need different entertainment, and a special focus on their history, because it isn't the same as regular American history.
Those beliefs help fuel racism, and they're caused by race-specific crap like BET.