I have touched on this very subject in the past in this blog, but I think it deserves repeating, because this concept invented by American leftists of "black history" just keeps being repeated over and over, year after year.
The very concept of there being some kind of "black history" is racist.
How so? Because it treats every single black person in the world as a monolithic group, as if they all belonged to the same group with a shared history.
Just Africa alone is a vast, vast continent that has historically had literally thousands of completely different and independent cultures that go back literally millenia. Take one group of people with a common historical background from somewhere in the continent, and it may be vastly different than another group from a different part of the continent. It's a very diverse and culturally rich continent, with thousands of peoples with their own backgrounds, their own cultures, their own histories, which are completely independent of each other and often have very little to do with each other. In fact, for millenia most peoples in the continent had literally zero contact with each other, and didn't even know of the existence of each other. (It's only the advances in communication and transportation during the last couple of hundred years that has spread the knowledge of other peoples and cultures, and increased contacts between different peoples across the continent.)
And that's just Africa alone. If we take into account all the other people, who these American leftists would classify as "black", from different parts of the world (such as Australia and the Pacific islands), the amount of completely different and independent cultures is even higher and richer.
The concept of there being some kind of unified "black history" completely erases this richness, this variety and diversity of cultures, and treats all black people in the world as the same, as one unified monolithic group with a common history.
And, what's worse, it treats these billions of people as one unified group based solely and merely based on their skin pigmentation, and nothing else. The entire concept considers them the same, one single group with a shared "black history", because of the color of their skin, and nothing else. That's it.
How more racist can you get than that?
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