CHAPEL HILL -- Coming soon to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association web site will be a special series highlighting African-Americans and their great contributions to high school athletics, in honor of Black History Month.
Each work day during February, starting February 1, we will feature information that should be of interest for anyone who follows high school athletics in North Carolina. Profiles of outstanding African-Americans in the NCHSAA Hall of Fame; information about the old North Carolina High School Athletic Conference, the organization for historically black high schools before they joined the NCHSAA, and some historical information about NCHSAC schools will be provided.
-- NCHSAA media release
Thursday, January 27, 2011
NCHSAA to honor black history month in February
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As as black folk stop celebrating their blackness with events like this, they will find the equality they say they are looking for. Not sooner.
Is it safe to state that next month the NCHSAA will highlight white Americans and their great contributions to high school athletics as well ????
Why would "black folk" stop celebrating it. Think about what black Americans had to endure just to get the opportunity to play high school sports. Slavery has a part in because unlike most white Americans their roots can be traced back all the way to their town of origin, which brings pride in one's family and culture. Blacks take pride in not only their family but blacks that become successful, because it gives a sense of pride since roots can't be traced back. I could write ad nauseam about the topic. It basically boils down to being proud in your culture and celebrating the people who came before you who endured the name-calling, police dogs, sleeping on the bus not the hotel, eating in black only sections, and all the other atrocities so that young black American athletes can play today. White Americans never had to endure that just so they or their children could play. (by the way although India had the largest trade of African slaves, slavery in America and it's effects can still be seen prevalent in Black society today.)
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