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Is Black History Month Over? [1]
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Date: 2023-03-01
February has now passed
But Black History still lives on
In the memories of our elders
And the stories of those now gone.
March is Women’s History Month
Another chance to fill in some gaps
In stories that could serve to inspire us today
And to repair some acts of erasure, perhaps.
History as we learn it in school
Is like a large block of Swiss cheese
And some want to make the holes even bigger
(Love your white boots, girl, but seriously, please!)
The indigenous voices, queer voices, and others unheard
For being too primitive, too perverse, or too whatever
Provide a corrective, to this narrative defective
For our successful survival together.
History is not unlike physics
We see large bodies behaving Newtonian
Oblivious to the unseen quantum world
Like the most proper, yet myopic, Bostonian.
History has no expiration date
Yet human history certainly may
Unless we can learn to work together
Without our perceptual blinders getting in the way.
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