As we say goodbye to Black History Month, let us return to posts past.
We have been urged to celebrate…
- …with fried chicken and collard greens.
- No really, with fried chicken and collard greens!
- …by relaxing our hair and drinking kool-aid.
- …by conflating them with “underprivileged” people.
- …by feeling badly about how fat we are and thinking about surgery (pictured).
- …with a “Compton Cookout” complete with blackface and nooses!
- …by buying stuff from companies that do nothing but acknowledge Black History Month.
<sarcasm> Good times. </sarcasm>
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
