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woozy This article announces that tomorrow marks the beginning of Black History Month, and gives a few facts on the origins of its creation.
I wonder: Where is Latino History Month? What about Asian American History Month? Are they out there? Why aren't they emphasized as much? Why does CNN and other media focus only on Black History Month? -- Except the article sometimes calls it African American Heritage Month, to be safe and politically correct. I did do a little research before my meds kicked in (yesh, shtill shick) and March is Irish American History Month as well as Women's History Month. May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (wow, two for one deal!)(yes, I know they are often lumped together on the general whole, but the cultures are different enough to merit some differentiation -- it's like calling someone from Spain a Latino). Oh, and June is GLBT month. So that stuff is out there, and there may still be Hispanic American Heritage Month that eluded my hazy gaze, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, my question still remains -- why this one?
Personally, I had never heard of Black History month until I came to WSU. That could have been because of my own ignorance, or my elementary and high schools neglecting to focus on it, or the university stressing diversity, or even it being a new, recent thing in educational institutes - especially libraries. Whatever it may be, why are educators stressing so heavily on it? I'm not saying it's not right. But why do we get MLK day off? How is that educational to students? What's fair?
The only conclusion I can come to is that on the whole, stats I've seen show African Americans to be the highest percentage of at-risk schools. Hmm. Okay, enough thinking
