Black history month in the UK; can somebody PLEASE rethink this urgently ???!

While the Americans may well have credible reasons to wish to continue to observe black history month, in the UK, it is very strange to see people spending time observing it, with the stories seeming to rotate around Martin Luther King jr, Rosa Parks etc. It seems people in the UK think black history started in the US with the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath

For how long will it be necessary to keep telling everyone to take pity?
Black history month in – if people insist it is to continue – should centre on the history of black people; most of which predate the transatlantic slave trade or civil rights movement in the USA! Black history month should be about African mythology (and yes, they do have such) and loads of other topics. But then, we should then also have White History Month, Brown history month, and history month for the folk who are not back, white or brown! (for example, the Chinese?)

The world needs to move on from this colour-coding nonsense! There are over a billion people in China and another 123 million in Japan; I am not sure they identify as white, black or brown. So, are we saying they don’t count? Are we saying they don’t fit in?

Nothing wrong with studying the history of Africa for instance. But having school kids in the UK sitting around getting told about American civil rights story, under a black history month annual event, is very strange indeed. It is one of the reasons society isn’t making any progress