SMH: 5 Black History Month Mockeries

There is a right and wrong way to celebrate February.

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Fried Chicken Does Not Represent Black History Month - There are tons of ways to embrace and celebrate Black History Month, exploring the arts, learning about jazz, researching inventors or taking an interactive trip through the Underground Railroad.  But when a California school chose to celebrate with a lunch menu of fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread, it sparked memories of other failed Black History Month celebrations. Keep reading to see how you should not celebrate February. — Dominique Zonyéé (@DominiqueZonyee)(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Blackface for Black History Month - In a disrespectful mockery of Black History Month in 2012, a white student at Brigham Young University in Utah put together a video in which he is dressed in blackface makeup and interviews a series of students about Black History Month. Even worse, the students interviewed were clueless about Black history.

Cotton Sale - This is just a slap in the face to cotton pickers and sharecroppers who endured first-hand the repercussions of slavery. Thanks for nothing, Walgreens.(Photo: Failblog.org)

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Cotton Sale - This is just a slap in the face to cotton pickers and sharecroppers who endured first-hand the repercussions of slavery. Thanks for nothing, Walgreens.(Photo: Failblog.org)

Kool-Aid Sale - Sorry, Kool-Aid is not a cool way to celebrate Black History Month. In fact, Kool-Aid was founded by Edwin Perkins in the early 1900s in Nebraska and for that it has been named the official “soft drink” of Nebraska.(Photo: Failblog.org)

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Kool-Aid Sale - Sorry, Kool-Aid is not a cool way to celebrate Black History Month. In fact, Kool-Aid was founded by Edwin Perkins in the early 1900s in Nebraska and for that it has been named the official “soft drink” of Nebraska.(Photo: Failblog.org)

Sending the Wrong Message - When you think of Black History Month icons for children, RuPaul, O.J. Simpson and Dennis Rodman may not be the first people that come to mind, but three teachers at a South Los Angeles elementary school encouraged students to study them. Outrage from the parents lead to the teacher’s suspension and even the mayor had something to say about the lesson plan.(Photos: Steve Marcus-Pool/Getty Images; Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect/Getty Images; Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images)

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Sending the Wrong Message - When you think of Black History Month icons for children, RuPaul, O.J. Simpson and Dennis Rodman may not be the first people that come to mind, but three teachers at a South Los Angeles elementary school encouraged students to study them. Outrage from the parents lead to the teacher’s suspension and even the mayor had something to say about the lesson plan.(Photos: Steve Marcus-Pool/Getty Images; Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect/Getty Images; Jonathan Daniel/Allsport/Getty Images)