Reflection of Ryuku Kubota's Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education

Mike Wallace: How we gonna get rid of racism?
Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it.

This reminds me of the color blind theory: to not acknowledge the differences. People try so hard to avoid it and not talk about that and it becomes an "underground topic" (in case of offending any races). Being "color blind" in a way (ideally and theoretically) should reduce racism, but that just brings everyone under one category/race, and which race would that be? Of course, the dominant culture/race (here, the "American"/white culture). Many people believe that monthly culture awareness is a way to acknowledge the differences and to accept differences. In America, there are so many differences, it's hard to avoid it. That's what makes America such a rich country!

I do believe that Black history is American history and that there is no need to separate those two. According to Dr. Angela Davis, Black history month should be more concentrated of the struggle to freedom as opposed to the history.

Black history month, if talked in a sense of what Dr. Angela Davis said, shouldn't be just one month, it should be constant. With this consistency, we don't have to be color-blind and embrace the differences.