Surely the whole point about Black History Month is that we are reversing the erasing of history? Before, we never used to really study the origins and culture of black people. Most of us knew practically nothing about the African civilisations that pre-dated colonisation by the whites.
And of course the same is true for the Americas, the far east and the Indian sub-continent - Did you know India for example was the richest country in the world for over 1700 years until the British turned up? Or that the Incan civilisation had an extremely advanced civil service?
I reckon it's a good thing that thanks to initiatives like BHM, we can learn a bit more about the wider history of the world beyond just the bits that the white colonials did.
Yes to BHM, overall a good initiative in raising more awareness about how it really was back then.
On a wider note, the radical voice tends to be the voice that is heard above the chatter and so even though we may sense some imbalance in the current newsworthy views we may also look back and accept that a strident point was made and now we all understand a little more. That said, I am against the cull of statues (actually I'm against the idea of statues in the first instance believing that memorials do that job much more even handedly) and against 'cancelling' or any action that limits free speech, our parents fought hard for us to enjoy this precious freedom.
