The New York Times, which when it isn’t using its reputation and influence to promote leftist agenda items and Democratic politicians can still be a source of useful information, explained a new black holiday that I had been mercifully unaware of until now. Meet “Black Love Day,” February 13:
On Feb. 13, 1993, Ayo Handy-Kendi, a community organizer and native of Washington, D.C., created the holiday to celebrate communal love and pride in being “unapologetically Black.” …Handy-Kendi…felt compelled by a higher power to bring her community together, she said in an interview with The New York Times…A decade prior, Ms. Handy-Kendi founded the African American Holiday Expo in Washington to promote Black businesses and the observance of holidays celebrating Black history, like Kwanzaa. She then created the African American Holiday Association, a nonprofit that encourages the celebration of alternative holidays focused on Black history and the preservation of Black culture, in 1989. In 1993, “the [C]reator,” Ms. Handy-Kendi told The Times, instructed her to organize the first Black Love Day. She hosted the event, which resembled the expo’s gathering of Black vendors and artisans, at Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon’s office in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., drawing from her own experiences and the history of the Black community…Black Love Day and its rituals are guided by the original five tenets: love for the creator, love for self, love for the Black family, love for the Black community and love for Black people.
Celebrating Black Love Day is about acknowledging those tenets throughout the day, Ms. Handy-Kendi said, and can involve a ceremony to honor Black love and relationships. “It’s not where you go on Black Love Day, it’s what you do on Black Love Day,” she said. “The Black Love Book” by Ms. Handy-Kendi outlines ways to practice those values…
You can read the rest if you want, but you get the idea.
Just to get the ethics verdicts out of the way,
- Holidays celebrating people based on their skin color are divisive and unethical.
- Inviting only artisans of color to city-sponsored expo is divisive, unethical, and probably illegal.
- A holiday that extols “love” for fellow American citizens based on their race is divisive, unethical, and begging for backlash.
The whole tale makes me want to put up one of those annoying (to progressives) “It’s okay to be white” signs that caused heartburn on college campuses a few years back. “Black Love Day” represents further regression in U.S. race relations, as a toxic double standard is paraded through the cultural streets. A “White Love Day” that promoted pride in being “unapologetically white” would be instantly categorized as an exercise in white supremacy. Harvard would never give a “White Love” student organization its approval. Like Black History Month, the existence of ”Black Love Day” is festering wound on national unity, stoking resentment and separatism when our ethical objective ought to be a colorblind society where people are judged by the content of their character. As long as large segments in the population regard tribalism as a valid societal value (and right now, a profitable one thanks to DEI discrimination) race relations are only going to get worse.
I don’t think whites, blacks or even the Creator are going to like the outcome.
Ethics Alarms 
https://x.com/kvoa/status/1757855461053722696?s=46&t=hYBRdyKc75ixaD6bBbzJZw
That photo looks like that Rachel Dolizal (naacp)
It is her.
That’s going to hit about half of the tags in the blog.
I’m not sure who “the Creator” is in this…God? If so, God isn’t really interested in division, particularly among those to claim to follow Him.
Anyways, this nonsense needs to stop. Before you know it, racists like Ayo Handy-Kendi will be calling for more than just separate “love” days. What’s next? Separate bathrooms? Drinking fountains? Schools? Buses?
Why does this feel like deja-vu?
All those activists for integration from 60s gotta be feeling mighty silly right now.
Holidays celebrating people based on their skin color are divisive and unethical.
So Black History month is unethical according to you?
No, it is unethical. I just recognize it more than most. Double standard, divisive, irresponsible and with no counteracting positive features. Black history is American history.
why is it unethical though (Divisive, irresponsible etc)
With all due respect, you can’t be this willfully ignorant. Are you trying to catch Jack in some kind of “gotcha”?
What part of “unethical”, “double standard, divisive, irresponsible and with no counteracting positive features” do you not understand. Those words have meaning, look those meanings up and learn.
This is self evident. Do better.
Well, I suppose if the histories are separate but equal, you can’t really argue that it’s divisive, right?
I would make the argument that “separate but equal” is never really “equal” and is inevitably divisive.
No matter how much we try to give equal time to a group, some other group will see themselves as slighted and/or shunned. There are only twelve months in a year. That’s one month for the histories of 12 groups. What about the 13th group? Do we have a “White History” month? What about the Mongolians living in the US? Surely they deserve a month. And it’s not just about skin color or country of origin. What about “Non-binary History” month? And the non-binary people with darker skin who descended from slaves? They should get at least a “history week”.
It just never ends and what we end up with is nobody’s happy at all. In fact, everyone is filled with bitterness and resentment because he/she didn’t get represented at all or is under-represented compared to someone else.
This system is inherently divisive…and unfortunately, it’s that way by design.
Junkmailfolder wrote, “Well, I suppose if the histories are separate but equal, you can’t really argue that it’s divisive, right?
With the way you worded that I’d have to say, no.
The way you are using the words “equal” and “divisive” in your comment doesn’t make sense to me. Outside the confines of mathematics equal is very much a perception; so just because something is equal doesn’t mean it can’t be divisive, and just because something is divisive doesn’t mean that it can’t be equal.
Please explain a little more so I can fully understand what your point is.
Sorry, should have used a sarcasm tag.
Bolding “but equal” was supposed to be the tell. We as a nation have already decided that segregation of students, buses, drinking fountains, history, etc., is inherently unequal, divisive, unethical, etc.
Junkmailfolder,
Thanks for the follow up comment, now I have a better understanding what you were doing. Sometimes I don’t get written sarcasm in comment threads.
Poe’s Law is becoming more and more salient, unfortunately.
Bob, there’s an implied question in there, but I don’t know which one you’re asking.
Is anyone beginning to get the impression that if blacks thought they could, they would be perpetuating wholesale genocide against White people?
Certainly there is a substantial group that would indeed consider that “justified.”
Which part of celebrating “black love” encompasses the fact that nearly 3/4 of all black children are born to an unwed mother, and that nearly as many are raised in a single parent environment?
Jack wrote, “stoking resentment and separatism when our ethical objective ought to be a colorblind society where people are judged by the content of their character”
The anti-white segment of the black community has intentionally bastardized the words of Martin Luther King Jr and many of these anti-white racists will tell you to your face that being “colorblind” is white supremacy and racist. Any applied definition of racism that doesn’t fit in the anti-white black racists playbook is tarred as racism; these people are immoral liars.