{"id":9973,"date":"2023-02-04T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2023-02-04T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:35:03","slug":"black-history-month-for-heretics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/02\/black-history-month-for-heretics\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month for heretics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On his blog &#8220;Heretic, Rebel, a Thing To Flout,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmurfin.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/backlasheducators-and-black-history-are.html\">Patrick Murfin writes about backlash against Black history<\/a> and relates it to Black History Month (BHM). He notes the usual criticisms of BHM such as Morgan Freeman observing, &#8220;I don\u2019t want a Black history month. Black history is American history.&#8221; Or as a black friend once said to me, &#8220;Ah yes. That Month. I don&#8217;t do That Month.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, times change. Patrick Murfin points out that today, &#8220;television stations are being inundated with protests and threats for airing Black History Minutes and other programing that have been routine for years.&#8221; Patrick calls himself an &#8220;amateur historian.&#8221; And this year, he decided he will observe BHM on his blog, while remaining aware of the limitations of its observance. Definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog &#8220;Heretic, Rebel, a Thing To Flout,&#8221; Patrick Murfin writes about backlash against Black history and relates it to Black History Month (BHM). He notes the usual criticisms of BHM such as Morgan Freeman observing, &#8220;I don\u2019t want a Black history month. Black history is American history.&#8221; Or as a black friend once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/02\/black-history-month-for-heretics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month for heretics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[908],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-black-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9976,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}