awwwww yeah!

It's Black People's Time!

As a Black person, I really do love Black People's Time. Time to forget about all our social troubles and enjoy the 28-day month of the year when you can find speaking engagements, creative performances and art exhibits, films, television programming, and yes, even commercials wholly dedicated to us Black folks.

We're only 5 days in and already there have been 2 lectures at my uni, there's a concert tonight (of course I'm going!), a play later this week, and I can personally vouch for having seen 3 specials on televison already (on TV Land, The History Channel, and of course BET).

AND! I've seen "Let's Celebrate Blackness and Black History" commercials on MTV and Nickelodeon. One of those even presented a bunch of children saying things like "Black is beautiful," and "I love my history," and "I love my skin." Absolutely delightful! Made me feel good. I'm sure there are more to come in the following weeks.

You might be thinking, "Man, with all this Blackness going on it's easy to get overwhelmed!" Well, it's only one month. Correction, only 28 days.


*In case you were wondering, the tone of this post is only about 20% sarcastic. I'm very happy that it's Black History Month, very happy that so many educational and enlightening events are happening, and only slightly disappointed that it's all concentrated into the shortest, arguably the dreariest month of the year. I mean, no disrespect to Carter G. Woodson, but July really is the ideal month for celebrating Black History. Perhaps I'll explain why some other time.*


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A Verse For You Today:

Have we not all one Father? And hath not one God created us? Why then do we deal treacherously, every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? ~ Malachi 2:10