Black History Month: When Stagnation Meets Obsolescence.
It is a strategic and psychological mistake to continue to allow our history to be compartmentalized and commodified in general; and suicidal to allow it to be done within a system that is oppressing and exploiting us. After a century of forced illiteracy and isolation from your historical home, it may have been necessary to present our history within focused pockets of time and dates. I can appreciate the need for a Negro History Week or...