BLACK
HISTORY MONTH
It’s February – Black
History Month.
Not a bad idea – in fact, it can be a
great idea – if …. that is …. If we ….
To take a whole month to focus on
and understand better who we are
as a people – neighbors with each other.
A day, a week, would not be enough.
The Chinese have a whole year …
“What’s this the year of?” we ask in a
Chinese Restaurant? A year wouldn’t
work what a whole month can do.
So we have a month to concentrate
on who we are in the quilt called we the
people of the United States of America.
Customs, cuisine, culture – pride in who
we are – with our gifts, our diversity,
our sameness, our hopes and dreams
and a thousand other variables.
A whole month, year after year, to take
some good looks on what we might be
missing – to laugh, to cry, to hear, to
step back and know that history is all
the stories of all the people in our midst.
So this February 1st – we begin with
2 simple questions: What do we want
to look at this Black History Month?
What do we want to celebrate together?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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