Black Fragility Month
It's gone from history, to privilege, to fragility
Black History Month, no matter what it was intended to be, is no longer a celebration. In today’s context, it is an excuse by Leftist influencers and controllers to raise an idealized vision for a narrow segment of the population to stand as a contrast to a caricature of Western civilization. It provides an opportunity for a particular segment of society to lament over the misdeeds of others that occurred long ago and ignore the apparent good of living in the freest civilization in history. In short, Black History Month serves as a platform in these contemporary times to further the goals of Cultural Marxism manifested and actualized in Black Lives Matter (BLM), Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The peddlers selling Black History Month (BHM) want the unobstructed privilege to cry over the unfairness in one form or another baked into existence for us all. BHM glorifies the challenges and unfairness of existence for a specific race and civilization. It’s cast as a celebration. But it’s not. It’s an unfruitful month-long therapy session where some people of one race whine about life’s challenges that are primarily seen as the fault of all the people of another race. So, it’s the black privilege to critique another race and shout down any call for historical context and common sense.
In today’s reality, the promotion and celebration of Black History Month solidifies, legitimizes, and illustrates the reality of Black Fragility. But Black Fragility is mainly due to mass fatherlessness, not racism; that is, 72% of black children are born to single mothers, which is a human catastrophe, not to mention the massive amount of abortions among black women. In other words, it is a complete breakdown of the family and ethics, which everyone is suffering from, including white families.
Here’s Morgan Freeman’s take on Black History Month.
BHM is exclusionary because it’s only celebrated in Western cultures as if black history has only occurred in predominately white nations. Africa doesn’t celebrate Black History Month. It might be because Africans know their history better than their American brethren. Africans know that segments of their population contributed to the slave trade by capturing their countrymen or capturing people from tribal wars and selling them to Arabs and Europeans …millions of them. Imagine countries in Africa or Japan celebrating White History Month. The thought makes you cringe. And it ought to make blacks cringe as Morgan Freeman does when blacks have a month set aside to celebrate things done by people of a specific skin tone that they had zero control over choosing.
The cringe reminds me of legislation being considered in the state of California to implement reparations for blacks. California was never a slave state. No one in California’s history lawfully had black slaves. No black person living there was ever a slave by decree of the state. Yet, they’re crying for reparations.
Why not have Slavic History Month in all nations that, at some point in the past, traded Slavic slaves? Slavic people supplied the slave trade in Medieval Europe and Arabia for centuries. Slav is where the word “slave” originates. Slavs were Caucasians from Europe, i.e., white people.
Today’s Black History Month is about taking pride in a racial identity the same way white supremacy groups do. The mindset of Black History Month promotes folding arms in judgment and condemnation, not linking arms in unity and healing with fellow Americans. Black History Month is now only a reminder of the scars, not the progress. BHM is picking at the scar, making a new wound, and pouring salt on it.
People of other races are expected to take on the mindset of a certain kind of shame for an act never committed—guilty until proven innocent. Embrace the guilt not earned. Take on the sins of past slaveholders even when one has no genetic connection to those slaveholders. Then, simultaneously praise and pity blacks, not for the content of character, but for things they have no control over.
As children, we were all taught that judging a person based on color was racist. But Black History Month demands that I acknowledge the racial identity of blacks rather than the character of the soul. Soul which a black person can control, over racial identity that a black person cannot control.
Celebrating Black History Month makes an idol of skin tone and bolsters racial identity politics. By doing so, the influencers and controllers are planting the seeds of racism and the foundation for Black Supremacy groups to thrive. When a single race is set apart for the honor of being born with a superficial trait beyond their control, that is blatant racism.
It is a knee-jerk reaction to assume that criticizing Black History Month is racist. The criticism is grounded in objective truth. If it’s racist, then the defenders of BHM would be calling Morgan Freeman a racist.
The struggle for reconciliation of race relations could result in a pearl of wisdom instead of pride born of announcing victimhood. The way to show victory is to leave it behind. But since BHM, BLM, CRT, and DEI are thoroughly infested with Cultural Marxism, the struggle must never end until a racial Paradise arises from the ruins of Western Civilization brought about by Cultural Marxism that fuels racial identity politics. According to BLM, CRT, and DEI, everything is racist until it’s controlled and driven to the point of destruction. Why? Because the “ruthless criticism of all that exists,” as Karl Marx often repeated, must continue in the long march to Paradise.
If Black History Month ever had good intentions, it is now animated by the ideologues and/or ideologies of BLM, CRT, and DEI. If black influencers and controllers insist on going that route, it would be like the Israelites when God led them out of Egypt. Still, the Israelites wanted to worship the golden calf of BLM, CRT, and DEI and find comfort in another ideology that would enslave not only them but everyone. Moses did not join in the worship of the golden calf, and I won’t either, and Morgan Freeman and a growing number of black people are with me.
If modern white people are complicit in past slavery, then why aren’t modern black people in Africa also complicit in the slave trade? What should be done about that? Should African nations hand over reparations to blacks living in the USA? I don’t think they would do that anymore than have a White History Month in celebration of the Union’s victory over the Confederate South.
Should Asian nations celebrate Black History Month? Why not? I presume the answer is that Asian countries did not specifically enslave black people. That said, neither did I, and neither did California.
Black History Month has become a rotting Zombie and needs to be renamed Black Fragility Month. I think the following is an accurate definition I borrowed from a recent video on Mark Dice’s YouTube channel.
