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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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