Black History Month–my favorite month of the year. It's a time for African Americans to show our black heritage and try to educate people on more then just slavery and Martian Luther King Jr. Black histroy is rooted in food, dance, language, style, color, emotion, oppression, and happiness. But we don't like to think about the positive so I won't go into it.

So, here are 30 reasons why we don't need a white history month.

1. Because black people aren't lifted up enough

2. So we can celebrate their accomplishments

3. Because they were and are an oppressed people.

4. Because they still experince racial discrimination in the work place

5. Because they don't have enough representation

6. Being black can get you killed

7. They experience injustices everyday.

8. The United States justice system is stacked against them.

9. Their accomplishments are smashed into one chapter in U.S. History textbooks.

10. People think slavery was a choice

11. The word "slavery" has been changed to "worker" in Texas textbooks.

12. Do you know who of Claudette Colvin's is? No? But you know of Rosa Parks and Martian Luther King Jr.

13. Do you know of James Earl Ray?

14. "Black people get their own network (BET)! Why don't we?" Do you mean Lifetime? And Hallmark?

15. White washing. A white man is cast as Michael Jackson. Let that sink in.

16. "Ask me why I have to constantly tell people I have natural hair because the stigma of black hair is straight with laid edges. Not bashing women for their hair of choice but bashing the fact I have to explain why I don't have that [straight, typical European style hair] and that this is how my hair grows." -Knisha Wolfgang

17. Statistically African Americans getting harsher sentences for the same crimes committed by a white person.

18. The fact that the KKK still exists

19. The fact that the KKK is still ACTIVE ACROSS THE NATION.

20. The freedom to protest is slandered when it is a group of African Americans peacefully protesting.

21. The "mad black woman" stereotype.

22. White culture and white history is celebrated throughout the year.

23. People think that Abraham Lincoln is freeing the slaves because it was "the right thing to do."

24. Rock and roll wouldn't exist without African Americans.

25. Because Gwendolyn Brooks poems “We Real Cool,” “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon,” “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” are STILL RELEVANT.

26. "As I Grow Older" By Langston Hughes

27. Because Jesus has been white washed.

28. Because our heritage has been dwindled.

29. Because #BLACKLIVESMATTER

30. Why do we need a white history month, when 11 months out of the year are dedicate to white history?

This February I urge all of you to ask what happened beyond Dr. King, and ask about individual slave narratives. Take an African American Experience course at a university near you to get an in-depth understanding of what it was and is currently like to be black in America. A lot has changed, but not as much as you think. Let my people have the shortest month out of the year.

Thanks to all the people that helped make this list possible.

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