An Indiana school district has declined to recognize the federal holiday that honors George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other presidents, and a school spokeswoman couldn't really say why.
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Not that it makes much difference, but it's sort of offensive, and a little sad, how many of the inventions attributed to African Americans were actually previous invented by European Americans. The media, academia, and other institutions are so fixated on tampering with the self-respect of African Americans that they not only lie but also diminish the real inventors' accomplishments. There's no need to lie. There are millions of intelligent African Americans in this country who contribute to their families and communities, which is really all any of us can hope for. It's not like the fact that most of the most-prominent inventors were white somehow reflects on the rest of us.
On a related note, I've been watching how the popular media has been hawking Black History Month (TM) to viewers. We get concert videos showing off a bunch of karaoke artists who have never written a song in their lives, and most of whom have drug rap sheets. We get speeches by black athletes, most of whom speak English at about the 4th grade level and have criminal records. We get movies that show blacks 'keeping it real' by 'overcoming' the adversity created by 'media whites' (ever notice how white people in the media are always depicted as ignorant, racist cowards who *deserve* to be violently assaulted by minority men and women?). We get the Nickelodeon special on slavery, wherein we learn that all white people are potential slave owners and KKK members, and that we can't really expect blacks to do as well as other groups because of an unimaginable institution -- albeit, one that ended 140 years ago. Finally, we get scads of advertisements for black-oriented entertainment and hygiene products, the purchase of which, we are told, is a celebration of black heritage.
On TV, at least, BHM (TM) is 50 Cent eating at MacDonald's. What it ought to be is Thomas Sowell talking about the black Renaissance of the 1940s and how to reclaim it by declaring independence from government services.
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