Black IZ Power Part 3! Black History Month Week 21

If you didn't know already, February is Black History Month.  Why is Black History Month in the shortest month of the year?  Because this happened to be the birthday month for both Abraham Lincoln, the great slave emancipator, and Frederick Douglas, the Martin Luther King Jr of the 1800s.  This was the idea of the great Carter G Woodson, whom was the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and in 1926 the first "Negro History Week" was observed.
Then in the 1970s, Black History Month was born and is still celebrated to this day in America and Canada.
I love Black History Month because it's one of the only times of the year when I get to write essays and share my knowledge with others that I normally don't talk to.  I don't talk to that many people at my school because Blackness is on a whole other level, one of which that they cannot touch, and I really do not feel that I have to talk to them.  Still, I feel that I owe it to my ancestors to put those differences aside to share my knowledge with people that would otherwise not know anything about it.  So I try my best to write and make little movies about these things so that I can make an impact on someone that I must of misjudged.
I also take a step over them and I try to demonstrate my pride in many other ways.  For instance, last year, the director of my school allowed me to wear a dashiki for Black history Month, and I wore it on Fridays because I only had about three of them.  Many people turned their heads, pointed fingers, laughed, and others took intrigue.  So I actually expected that kind of reaction because there are too many Black people ignorant to their history.  At first, I started to feel really bad about it, and I wasn't looking forward to school anymore, but I continued on, answered any questions, and answered ignorance with the strong pride that brewed within myself, something that I was proud and surprised by.
This year, we had a new director, and I was a bit doubtful about whether or not he was going to allow me to to wear it, and I was surprised when he said that I could.  This year, I have real Dashikis and I can't wait to wear them this Friday with my Afro and big earrings.  I missed this Friday due to a family tragedy, but you know that next week, I'm going to be on it!  So I can't wait to get that together.
Also, I have two movies that I will show my class this month; one is about the Black Panther Party of the 70s, and the other one is about how we have forgotten the struggle to the music of Heaven Help Us All.
So you know that I will be hard at work trying to inspire the hopeless, the clueless, and the ignorant.  Why do I do it?  I don't know.  Why did Martin Luther King try to compromise with racist white people?
See, no matter how many people tell you that it's dead, Black History Month still has its relevance because this is OUR history, no matter what color you are, if you are an American, this is your history.  We need to understand this history if we want to advance this country because we still are facing many of the same problems we have for hundreds of years with the issue of superiority.  In my opinion, no race is more superior than the other, and that's why you can never catch me saying that Black people are better than any other race.  Still, I have my pride, but there is a thick line between thinking that my race is better than another and loving my Black self.  It pains me that we don't celebrate our Black culture as we did way back when, and I know that I was put on this Earth to instill that self love, and awareness to the struggle so that I may uplift me people as the Great Ones before me did.  So, this is one of many of my Black History Month posts, so I hope to post more in the future so that I may uplift, whomever reads this.

Love,
             Blackness PEACE!