A display on August 9, 2024 at our local Bank of America in Jupiter, Florida:
Note that no other ethnic, racial, gender ID, or sexual preference group was explicitly featured by Bank of America in a rotating display. Their only focus for August, apparently, is Black Business Month.
Readers: Now that the month is nearly over, what did you do to celebrate?
American Airlines was running a “Black Film Festival” (no other ethnic or racial group was featured) on August 17, 2024, at least:
(The screen shot shows me trying to catch up on Florida literature with an audiobook of Miami Blues, also made into a movie with Alec Baldwin (holding a gun).)
Just get Netflix. It shows Black movies 12 months a year.
I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the black community and their culture to our society.
Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.
Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people.
Real estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, as an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature.
African American international reputation for self restraint, boundless patience and superior non-violent conflict resolution skills is legendary across the globe.
Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.
Wow, did you steal Kamala Harris’ teleprompter?
Lions get lunch from Wally almost every day.
I donated a SuperSoaker to a needy child. Does this count?
What can be, unburdened by what has been!