Black History Month (Serious)

[BPP]

Although we generally do not allow threads about race period, we're gonna try this now that we have the serious rule in place. However, there will be 0 tolerance for anything other than serious posts.

if you post any of the following, you WILL be banned!
-anything off-topic
-ANY arguments or posts about white history month, or why whites don't have one, or anything to do with white people
-any non-serious posts
-posting a picture of a token black TV character as a joke

if you post a picture, you better make a post with it explaining the person's relevance and importance.

[Geno]

Happy Black History Month to all my friends.

[Polizei]

No explanation needed. Was a good man

[Vince Carter]

What more is there to say than Happy Black History month. We all know MLK JR was a great man.

I hope this thread can deliver.

[The Experiment]

I recommend that people should read the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Despite the fact that some of it might have been rewritten, the message is amazing.

[JCAZ2010]

Originally Posted by Geno

Happy Black History Month to all my friends.

Yep, I wish I actually got more out of it though, at least ESPN & MTV usually do something educational though.

[KennyK]

i'll have to repost all of my pics

and props to Geno.

[John L]

[relobe]

I posted this in a thread earlier that got locked. I actually got a chance to meet Angela Davis last semester at UC Davis.

She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, and was the subject of an intense manhunt. After 18 months as a fugitive, she was captured, arrested, tried, and eventually acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. She is currently Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California and Presidential Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works for racial and gender equality and for prison abolition. Davis is a founder of Critical Resistance.

(Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis)

[Lothar]

JOSEPHINE BAKER (1906-1975), St. Louis-born singer and entertainer, became an international star and captivated audiences in Europe and America. She also focused attention on U.S. racism.

[relobe]

Originally Posted by KennyK

i'll have to repost all of my pics

and props to Geno.

You had a great list going in the other thread... I'd rep you again if I could.

[Geno]

Originally Posted by atl_thug_69

Yep, I wish I actually got more out of it though, at least ESPN & MTV usually do something educational though.

I'll try and help a little.

Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor".

Brashear retired from the Navy in 1979 after more than 30 years of service. He was the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty as an amputee, the result of a leg injury he sustained during a salvage operation.

In 1966, Brashear was assigned to recover a hydrogen bomb that dropped into waters off of Spain when two U.S. Air Force planes collided.

During the mission, Brashear was struck below his left knee by a pipe that the crew was using to hoist the bomb out of the water. Brashear was airlifted to a naval hospital where the bottom of his left leg was amputated to avoid gangrene. It later was replaced with a prosthetic leg.

The Navy was ready to retire Brashear from active duty, but he soon began a grueling training program that included diving, running and calisthenics.

"Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay because they would have taken me out of the program," Brashear said in 2002 when he was inducted into the Gallery of Great Black Kentuckians. "Instead I'd go hide somewhere and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it - that's an old remedy I learned growing up."

Brashear faced an uphill battle when he joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17, not long after the U.S. military desegregated.

"I went to the Army office, and they weren't too friendly," Brashear said in 2002. "But the Navy recruiter was a lot nicer. Looking back, I was placed in my calling."

Brashear, the son of poor sharecroppers in Sonora, Kentucky, quickly decided after boot camp that he wanted to become a deep-sea diver.

"Growing up on a farm in Kentucky, I always dreamed of doing something challenging," he said. "When I saw the divers for the first time, I knew it was just what I wanted."

In 1954, he was accepted and graduated from the diving program, despite daily battles with discrimination, including having hate notes left on his bunk.

He went on to train for advanced diving programs before his 1966 incident.

"He kept to himself personally, but his military life was an open book," said Junetta Brashear, his first wife, who lives in Portsmouth, near Brashear's home in Virginia Beach.



http://www.military.com/NewsContent/...106968,00.html

One of my personal heroes. He not only overcame the Navy's bias against blacks but he became the best in his field and earned the respect of many men who wouldn't have given him the time of day.

[adamlm]

Im a white guy just so that is out in the open

I dont fully understand why we have a black history month, not because of the black part. But because of the month part, why only one month, why isnt it a year round thing for people to enjoy their hertiage, and inform others of it. Just the fact that we have a sepreate month feels like segeration to me.

Question for the blacks on the forum what special thing do you do during Black history month to celebrate it ?

Do you feel that the setting aside of one month takes from the equality that exsists between the respective races in America?

Just questions form my own curiousity

[KennyK]

Mary Mecleod Bethune

Bethune was the 15th of 17 children – but the first to be born free. She walked five miles to school each day and brought home what she learned to her brothers and sisters. Thus began her love of education and her belief in its power.

She won a scholarship to school, she became and married a fellow teacher. She dreamed of starting her own school, and she put a $5 down payment on land to build one. Later, that school joined with another and became the Bethune-Cookman College.

Bethune was such a highly respected educator that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made her the Director of Negro Affairs. She worked constantly for the rights of others. She pleaded with Roosevelt do something about the Nazis and their inhumane treatment of Jewish people during World War II. She forced Johns Hopkins Hospital to hire African-American doctors. She raised funds for housing projects for poor people in Florida.

She worked with five American presidents to increase opportunities for all people.

[KennyK]

Originally Posted by eboler

You had a great list going in the other thread... I'd rep you again if I could.

I'll get them up again. It's not like I'm going to forget them.

[thrillkiller]

Common sampled MLK's speech for his new song "I have a dream". You guys might like it. here are the lyrics:

http://www.requestlyrics.com/read.php?1,760258,761903

[Pain Inflicter]

[Mr. Wacko]

What's BHM without Malcom X?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_x

[JCAZ2010]

Originally Posted by Geno

I'll try and help a little.

Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver, who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor".

Brashear retired from the Navy in 1979 after more than 30 years of service. He was the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty as an amputee, the result of a leg injury he sustained during a salvage operation.

In 1966, Brashear was assigned to recover a hydrogen bomb that dropped into waters off of Spain when two U.S. Air Force planes collided.

During the mission, Brashear was struck below his left knee by a pipe that the crew was using to hoist the bomb out of the water. Brashear was airlifted to a naval hospital where the bottom of his left leg was amputated to avoid gangrene. It later was replaced with a prosthetic leg.

The Navy was ready to retire Brashear from active duty, but he soon began a grueling training program that included diving, running and calisthenics.

"Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay because they would have taken me out of the program," Brashear said in 2002 when he was inducted into the Gallery of Great Black Kentuckians. "Instead I'd go hide somewhere and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it - that's an old remedy I learned growing up."

Brashear faced an uphill battle when he joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17, not long after the U.S. military desegregated.

"I went to the Army office, and they weren't too friendly," Brashear said in 2002. "But the Navy recruiter was a lot nicer. Looking back, I was placed in my calling."

Brashear, the son of poor sharecroppers in Sonora, Kentucky, quickly decided after boot camp that he wanted to become a deep-sea diver.

"Growing up on a farm in Kentucky, I always dreamed of doing something challenging," he said. "When I saw the divers for the first time, I knew it was just what I wanted."

In 1954, he was accepted and graduated from the diving program, despite daily battles with discrimination, including having hate notes left on his bunk.

He went on to train for advanced diving programs before his 1966 incident.

"He kept to himself personally, but his military life was an open book," said Junetta Brashear, his first wife, who lives in Portsmouth, near Brashear's home in Virginia Beach.



http://www.military.com/NewsContent/...106968,00.html

One of my personal heroes. He not only overcame the Navy's bias against blacks but he became the best in his field and earned the respect of many men who wouldn't have given him the time of day.

Great movie, and thanks.

[GrumpyTX]

Well I can honestly say that there are not many here that remembered what it was like during segregation in the 70's. I lived in a small (at the time) town in Louisiana and the area was predominately white. The next town south was predominately black. When I was in the 3rd grade, they began busing the two schools so instead of going to my school which was 5 minutes away, I was bussed to the predominately black school over 45 minutes away. There were picket lines at both schools and armed police officers. I was there for two years and learned alot.

This was my first ever real association with anyone of another race and a real culture shock. I am so glad I did live during that time and I have learned so much from it.



I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Black History Month.

[John L]

[RickRoss]

The father of Black History Month.



Carter G. Woodson

[thrillkiller]

Hiram Rhodes Revel



First African American to serve in the US Senate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels

[Mr. Wacko]

American abolitionist, Frederick Douglas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglas

[GrumpyTX]

Being from Louisiana, I had to include one of the greatest of all times.




Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Free jazz was the only post-war jazz style not significantly influenced by Davis, although some musicians from his bands later pursued this style. His recordings, along with the live performances of his many influential bands, were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value. A popularizer as well as an innovator, Davis became famous for his languid, melodic style and his laconic, and at times confrontational, personality. As an increasingly well-paid and fashionably-dressed jazz musician, Davis was also a symbol of jazz music's commercial potential.

[KennyK]

Originally Posted by John L

DJ Kool Herc

Father of Hip Hop

I had the honor of meeting him last summer.

[RickRoss]

Marcus Garvey



Founder and Leader of the UNIA - the largest organized Black mass movement in history.

[Vince Carter]

Beyonce...the hottest black girl ever

[974g63awd]

http://www.achievement.org/achievers...e/par0-018.jpg

Mrs. Rosa Parks

[DarinK]

Robert Johnson, billionaire, founder of Black Entertainment Television.