Posted October 15, 200618 yr its black history month so who are the 5 most important people in order of importance to black history (and they can not all be positive figures if you want you can include some rotters if you want)
October 16, 200618 yr Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King Jr Malcolm X Huey Newton (founder of Black Panther movement) Mohammed Ali
October 16, 200618 yr BLACK HISTORY MONTH?! WTF..?!?! If there was a White History Month there'd be all-out war..... Jeeeeesus, when will all this nonsense stop?
October 16, 200618 yr erm 5 most important 1. Martin Luther King 2. Nelson Mandella 3. Malcolm X And I need to think about the other two places
October 16, 200618 yr BLACK HISTORY MONTH?! WTF..?!?! If there was a White History Month there'd be all-out war..... Jeeeeesus, when will all this nonsense stop? I think it's reasonable myself, black figures from history are usually ignored, marginalised, or worse still, demonised and totally misrepresented by the, mainly white, male, academic elite (e.g., the case of Heuy Newton, whom the white establishment painted as a terrorist when in fact all he was actually doing was defending his neighbourhood from the oppression of the racist LA police force, trying to get hard drugs out of the ghettoes and campaigning for a Left-Wing/Socialist revolution based upon social justice...). Balance has to be redressed, so I am personally in favour of it...
October 17, 200618 yr 50 cent Nah, he would be nothing without Chuck, Cube, Dre, T, Snoop, Eazy, Method Man, et al; I'd put ALL of them way before I'd even consider 50 Cent.... He's a pygmy next to such greatness...
October 17, 200618 yr Author Nah, he would be nothing without Chuck, Cube, Dre, T, Snoop, Eazy, Method Man, et al; I'd put ALL of them way before I'd even consider 50 Cent.... He's a pygmy next to such greatness... :lol: :lol: :lol: ps man! hope there arent any pygmy folk from papua new guinea or somewhere like that on the web. even though it be ironic
October 17, 200618 yr Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King Jr Malcolm X Huey Newton (founder of Black Panther movement) Mohammed Ali I cannot argue with that list or the order.
October 17, 200618 yr I'd definatley put Mary Seacole, Harriet Tubman & maybe even Rosa Parks in there. The lists suggested here to me seem focused too heavily on those who fought for black rights out and out. Black history and its development is more than that. Rather than looking at those 'obvious' figures who get crammed down our throats daily as being societies' black 'favourites' for black rights people need to look at the more far-flung reasons and the actual signficicance of what they did. Yes Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, shouted and campaigned but the likes of Harriet Tubman showed just as much courage and power and made the same differences, just not in the same way as the men suggested in the lists above.
October 18, 200618 yr I'd definatley put Mary Seacole, Harriet Tubman & maybe even Rosa Parks in there. The lists suggested here to me seem focused too heavily on those who fought for black rights out and out. Black history and its development is more than that. Rather than looking at those 'obvious' figures who get crammed down our throats daily as being societies' black 'favourites' for black rights people need to look at the more far-flung reasons and the actual signficicance of what they did. Yes Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, shouted and campaigned but the likes of Harriet Tubman showed just as much courage and power and made the same differences, just not in the same way as the men suggested in the lists above. Absolutely correct of course, I should be ashamed of myself for not mentioning them really.... I'd like to hope that the point of this "Black History Month" would be to redress that particular balance and put forward these people... Hopefully they will someday get the credit they deserve...
October 18, 200618 yr Absolutely correct of course, I should be ashamed of myself for not mentioning them really.... I'd like to hope that the point of this "Black History Month" would be to redress that particular balance and put forward these people... Hopefully they will someday get the credit they deserve... Looking outside the "shouting campaigners" box I think it adds further questions as to whether you can actually create a list of people who are "important for black civil rights" as there simply aren't 5 people more important than the everyone else. From Mary Seacole to Mohammed to Ali to Mamie Carthan Till to Toussaint Louverture all in their own way have shaped black civil rights through the various means that they persue. Harriet Tubman is no less important than Martin Luther King Jr, both went about very different means to highlight/help a cause that needed fighting. Infact to generalise something so vast an area of history could almost be deemed offensive to the plight you are discussing. And the likelyhood that those names I suggested in this thread will get their full and deserved appreciation and their cause highlighted is unlikely, much like this thread most schools will/do focus on the freedom fighter of the 50/60s and ignore 99% of black history. People seem to forget that there are so many people out there who have made a difference...
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