I think we do need a Black History Month because I think
everyone should know about everyone else's history, we're all humans.
What’s Black History Month?
I'm not sure that the Black History Month
that they're calling Black History Month is really black history.
To be honest, personally I really couldn’t care.
I've never heard of it before but it sounds like a good idea.
If you don't have it, what else are you going to have?
It's good to raise awareness. I think a month is quite a long time.
It focusses too much on the negative side because
it's saying you never had a history until you met the Europeans.
That's the gist of it.
What about before that?
Africa has had many empires but most people don't know that.
It's important, maybe black people don't know enough about their own history.
I don’t know enough about my history.
Black people do forget black history throughout the whole year.
If they’ve got Black History Month shouldn’t we have Asian History Month?
You should have different months to learn about different cultures because culture is so varied.
For the whole month, all the schools are talking about black people,
I'm not being funny, but Asian people don't get XXXX out of it.
That is true.
Jews and other minorities, which have had serious things done to them,
have got reparation, so why haven’t black people got reparation?
I was born here, but my forefathers weren't, to remember that, we need to do so.
There are so many black people living in this country. We should celebrate it, everyone should.
All of these issues are swept under the carpet.
They haven't even apologised for slavery yet. Look how long that's been.
People say it was a long time ago,
you say that because you're not the one being affected.
I'd like to say I could walk up to a random person on the street
and they could tell me they learned something from Black History Month,
but I don't think it will affect everyone.
Black History Month is a bit of a token gesture.
I think it's a token gesture. Exactly my point. That's exactly what I'm thinking.