At the start of February, of every year, many blacks, who are proud blacks, honor their ancestors by remembering the ones who paved the way. It's the one month that blacks have a month to themselves but during that one month, there are people who don't quite understand the meaning behind the month.
There are some white Americans who don't understand why black Americans have a month for them. It's to the point where some white Americans want a "White History Month". There are multiple problems with that month: white Americans have always been superior compared to other races, so of course white Americans would be the first at everything that happens in the U.S. If one was to break down the white history, they would see a lot of triumphs but the majority of those triumphs would include killing dozens of human beings who did not deserve to die. Some of those triumphs were with the help of black Americans, but around that time they were called slaves.
To find out that there were many black Americans to be the first at multiple things is a huge accomplishment. Seeing that they were able to do what they did, encouraged many generations to come. I know as a child, the one black American that we were reminded of every year was George Washington Carver, throughout his inventions he dealt with peanuts. We were also taught about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because he was a black American that was peaceful. But we were never taught about Malcolm X; I didn't find out about X until I volunteered at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. There were a lot of people that we weren't taught about until we were older.
The most recent group of black Americans, were three beautiful brave women who put the white Americans in space, Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Many people never heard of them until they saw the trailer to Hidden Figures. On a sadder note, George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person in history to be executed at 14 years old. He was accused of killing two white Americans, after 70 years since his execution he was exonerated. Trust me, he isn't the only black person who was blamed for something they didn't do, Emmet Till was also a victim of this. Decades after he was killed, the lady who blamed him for whistling at her claimed that he never whistled at her.
Black Americans have gone through so much in their lives and for some reason, some people cannot see that. Some may think we are complainers for having our own month. But in all actuality, after several centuries of being beaten down for having a voice, February is the month that many racist whites will hear us loud and clear.
