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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory

Steven Michael

White Americans have heritages they can be
proud of; Irish, polish, whatever, be bold and be
proud to be French even. We have a past. We
have a history. Some of our ancestors were
Vikings or even a British blacksmith. Whatever.
We can say those things.

Black people in America don't have that luxury.
They had their history stolen from them. Most
of them have no idea what country of origin
they have. And "Africa" isn't a country.

So they get to be black. And they get to be
proud to be black. Because our whiteness erased
their heritage.

So when a white person asks, "Why can they be
proud to be black but I can't be proud to be
white?" Because you're celebrating things like
the erasure of their history and the violence and
torture their people suffered at the whim of
white America.

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