African Americans get a whole month dedicated to their existence, but for some of them, it’s not enough.
“Blacks gets the shortest month of the year,” says Jamal, who declined to give his full name and claims to be from Black Lives Matter. “They always give us the short end of the stick”.
However, in reality, Black History Month is in February because its the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a key player against racial segregation, as well as the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the South.
“Gay Pride Month is in May, with 31 days, the longest possible for a month,” ranted Kevin, who is also a ‘social justice activist’ and works in marketing. “In advertising, I see that companies and social media have bigger celebrations for them all month long. We only get Nike, they get everyone else.”
“So what do we get? Absolutely nothing!” he continued. “Blacks get the worst jobs, the worst pay, the worst sentencing, worst poverty, worst everything, period!”
To be fair, blacks get a shorter month despite consisting of 13% of America’s population, which contrasts to gays, who consist of 4.5% in comparison. But does it really have to be a race to the bottom, a competition to see who is being treated the most unfairly?
If so, let’s see how long is the commemoration for all Americans, which consists of 100% of the citizenship:
“All of America gets just one day, the Fourth of July,” said Alan Johnson from Annapolis, Maryland. “But American blacks get a whole month, so what’s there for them to complain about?”
“Each and every soldier that sacrificed their life get Memorial Day, which is only 24 hours just for them,” he continued, “but blacks, including ones who have done absolutely nothing, still get a month-long remembrance, a whole month. Talk about fairness!”
“And isn’t it sad to you that the Fourth of July, which represents all Americans, is shorter than Black History or Pride Month, which represents a smaller group of folks out there?” he concluded.
If anything, Independence Day is more inclusive that any event that’s dedicated to just a certain kind of minority. So if social justice warriors are always fighting for a more inclusive society, and celebrating it, why aren’t that worried that the Fourth is just one day?