IT'S HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH...AND NO ONE IS BITCHING ABOUT IT..WHAT GIVES?

[stephen]

To be honest, and I don't know where you live, but I've NEVER heard of any REAL "major issues" with BHM. The only people that I ever hear speak negatively on this are your run-of-the-mill nobodies that complain to each other in pool halls. I've never really heard of an "official" controversies. So I don't really know what you're talking about.

QD...you've repeated what i said MINUS the "example" of school...you used a pool hall. i never once said "EVERYONE complains aobut BHM in schools," i specifically said it's a problem for CLOSET RACISTS, BIGGOTS, THE IGNORANT or like you put it "run-of-the-mill-nobodies."

So you have a problem with children dressing up in pajamas and mismatched clothes because you think they're not allowed to dress up like Hank Aaron? Wow, I guess. Where you say you've heard that plenty of times, again, I've never heard of that. I've actually never heard of that being "an issue" at all. Ever. Just seems to me that you're like the white dudes that want to make petty "arguments" about why blacks are allowed to have BET with your argument on why they can dress up one way but not another.

Just seems pointless to me. Later, QD.

i could careless what the kids wear in schools. my point is how ridiculous those "run-of-the-mill-nobodies" who do make statements like "why do i have to dress like hank aaron and give a speech every february? black history month is so pointless!" those same people will make that statement while wearing their mismatched pajamas which makes no sense to me. if YOU have never heard anyone make that claim, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! you're one man in a land of millions.

you know something though...you're absolutely right. what started out as me making a STATEMENT, has now turned into me "arguing" a PETTY point. i feel like you're making assumptions off of my character over a 'weak' point i was making and for some reason i have the urge to clear that up.

I DO have a problem with how [minority] history months are represented in schools, OR LACK THEREOF, and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with clothing. i mean come on, there are people here who are hispanic who have NEVER heard of HHM. they're finding out from a car forum or MTV. school...the place where you spend 13yrs of your life, 8hrs a day, 10 months a year, and no one mentioned HHM...maybe that's the problem. maybe it's the fact that for 28, 30, or 31 days out of 365 you try to cram hundreds...thousands of years of history & heritage. you get a 30 second speech every morning during the morning announcements to learn about an important minority figure, but guess what....you'll get that same damn speech the very next year, and the next, and the next. it makes me really wonder...if these particular months weren't observed AT ALL, would minority histories still be important, or forgotten? whatever though...i guess i should just settle down and accept what's offered...a few days that're acceptible for a minority to show pride in his/her heritage. happy hispanic heritage month everyone!