I think the point of something like Black History Month or special programs on TV related to black history is to draw attention to American historial contributions of black poeple that might be ignored in mainstream history. I'm not sure what these shows are about exactly, because I haven't watched them. But if anybody here did watch them, were the people and events they talked about something that you already knew about from mainstream history? Or was it something that you had never heard of before? If it was something you had never heard of before, then maybe it had some value.

Some of this promotion of a single cultural perspective IS divisive and not helpful. For example, I don't think blacks need their own National Anthem --- it's one nation and needs only one anthem.

But I can understand the black history thing. It's fine to say we are all one nation and we have one history, but if I was part of a subgroup who felt the contributions of my group were ignored in mainstream history, I would think someone was blowing a bunch of smoke up my ass with the "one culture" thing, and I would want my history known.

The idea of a White History Month is absurd because virtually all of our history is about white people and their history. How would White History Month be any different from the history taught every single day, month after month?