Black History Month: Unappreciated, Overrated?

Just like clockwork, here we are; embracing our Blackness and daring any White person to come at us incorrectly. For 28 beautiful days, give or take a week, we suddenly remember that we are a proud people of culture, heritage and history, and now we want to embrace our history and be proud. Umm, give me a break, y'all are full of mess and could care less about being proud Black people; look how we treat each other the other 337 days of the year! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the opportunity to celebrate my history, and feel it is a wonderful thing that our country as a whole has become involved in celebrating our pride. What I don't get however, is the fact that we tear each other down and destroy each other on a daily basis, but now we want to promote Black pride and be all happy and act like we are doing something big. Chile please! When March 1st comes, we will go back to being ignorant, self-hating, crab mentality having Blacks who can't get it together, and forget the accomplishments and  struggle of our people. Just curious, but how many of us know any Black leaders or people of prominence other than Rosa Parks, and MLK Jr. What about Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Bessie Coleman, or Marcus Garvey to name a few? Seriously, if all the Black leaders of before were here today to see our community as a whole, I'm willing to wager they would be disappointed and ashamed. Come on Black people, get it together; there's no sense that we behave this way and it's a shame that all the progress we made doesn't mean anything to us anymore. Yes we may be free, but seems to me that lately all we've accomplished is trading physical chains for mental ones...