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Lori Eldridge from Lima, OH
Why is there only a Black History Month? To tell the tales of people from African heritage? How then do you explain the number of white people in Africa? And why is there a distiction of "black" or "white?" Aren't we all people of color, or some pigmentation? Call me simple-minded, but I don't agree with race distinguishing - it only promotes racism. Here in America we are all Americans, plain and simple. If not American, then pick a country and hit the road! . . . and why isn't there a Japanese History Month to relate their persecution during WWII?
Carol from Suffolk - Welsh Ex-Patriot
I don't disagree per so with a Black History month, but I do wish people would stop going on about English (do they mean British?) Imperialism. They forget, perhaps conveniently, that sometimes it was the black tribes who sold their own and neighbouring tribe-members into slavery, so maybe they have something to answer for too!
Roberta, Cardiff
I applaud everyone involved with black history month and hope the event carries on forever. I am the daughter of a mixed-race marriage and although i have plenty of family on my mum's side and know all the history of my Irish descendants, i know hardly anything of my dad's family and would love the opportunity to find my roots.
Trevor Watkins, Port Talbot
Could someone please explain to me the fuss about Black History month? I will be the first to disagree with it. Should every nationality have their own particular history month? There would not be enought months to go around. Come on give me a break. The same thing goes on so my cousins tell me in the United States. They don't have Welsh history, German history, Japanese history month there but I'm told they have Black History month. Same here in the U.K. Let's have Spanish history month and Sweedish history month while were at it. See my point? I think it's crazy. Give me a break.
Hakim, East London, UK
Do we need Black History Month? Definitely YES! We are the only people that seem to have a month dedicated to our history. Is it because we are so special? Or is it because since the African Holocaust (Slavery/imperialism) Black people have systematically been rewritten, distorted, removed and plainly lied about in history books to justify such an atrocious act on humanity? Everybody needs to learn that Africa did not come into existance with the onslaught of the European slave trade and colonisation but Africa has always contributed like other races to the onward march of human civilisation from the sciences, art and religion to being the birth place of humanity itself.
It has now become imperative in this day and time of information that we all learn a knowledge of self and others to bring about greater understanding so we don't fall victim to mental bondage and become enslaved to ignorance.
Like the great, late Bob Marley sang "...Free yourself from mental slavery...because non but ourselves can free our minds..."
Tim Tyson
I applaud Black History Month. However the various hues of other people's now living in the UK are advantaged in as much as they have solidarity and a unifying culture with themselves and between each other. Pity the poor white populace who have no clear culture are disparate and are paying for there forefathers crimes against humanity and have to live without grants and a label of being a minority.
Bronwen Jones from Hertfordshire.
i think this site is gr8. Keep it up guys!!
I am a welsh girl in England and people give me a lot of grief about being from Wales. I get my strength back from our summer holidays to Wales!!!
Nike Hamilton in Maryland USA
I think my brother and I were the first black children at Skewen Lower in the 60s.
I sang 'Hen Ffon Fy Nain' in front of the whole school and the principal told everyone that I had only been there a few months and sang the song like a Welsh girl! My parents were from Nigeria, and when we returned to Nigeria in 1966, my cousins could not believe we were born in Britain because we had a 'funny English accent'! It was hard explaining our accents were Welsh.It was fun teaching our friends Pamela and Ralph how to eat rice and hot pepper stew which they loved.
We learned a lot of Welsh customs and my parents shared a lot of Nigerian ones with our friends and neighbors.
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