I do think that Black History Month is necessary. For so many citizens in the United States, this may be the only opportunity that they may have to hear about the horrible conditions of slavery and about positive impacts that African Americans have made to the United States. American history in United States public schools is very much “white washed,” especially depending on what decade and where in the United States you were educated. The contributions of slaves and free blacks throughout the United States have largely been ignored or under appreciated. I have often heard the complaint that Black History Month is reduced to the very shortest month of the year. In learning more about the history of Black History Month, it makes more sense to me how February was chosen. Black History Month was first “Negro History Week” because the week held the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both seen as heroes to African Americans due to their roles in the abolition of slavery. I can understand an opponent of continuing Black History Month that might say black history should be all year round and included as part of American history. The case though, in this nation, is that African American history is largely swept under the rug for several reasons. The main reason, in my opinion is that Americans want to feel proud of their heritage, the land of the free and home of the brave. Slavery, racism and the need for Black History Month in itself is an embarrassment to a country claiming to be superior to other countries. Another reason African American history is largely ignored to history is racism. Whites’ need to feel superior to blacks kept black history hidden to not portray whites in a bad light and to diminish achievements of blacks. The truth is that there are still so many racists people towards African Americans in the current day. Sadly, many of the racists tendencies that are present today, stem from family heritage from days of slavery, the Civil War and the Confederacy.
Ted Bundy is a movie that chronicled the life and crimes of serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy. The film starts out showing Bundy as an impulsive kleptomaniac. The movie continues with alternating scenes between fairly normal life with his girlfriend and her daughter and times where Bundy is stalking, attacking, raping and killing women. He sometimes broke into women’s houses with a lock picking kit. He would often attack women on the streets or trick them into letting their guard down before attacking them. The scenes with assaults are shocking, as Bundy nonchalantly attacks and kidnaps women, usually in broad daylight. One scene with Bundy putting makeup on a severed head in his house is particularly chilling. When Bundy ends up moving to Utah, his killings appear to have ramped up, and he killed in multiple areas in Utah and Colorado. Bundy picked up a woman at a shopping center, claiming to be a police officer working on a case. When she realizes that they hav
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