Let’s be honest: It’s time to get rid of Black History Month.

As a tutor, I work with children. Recently, one of them showed me an assignment his teacher had given the class for February, when Black History Month is celebrated. Every day, each child is told to read about another black American.

Martin Luther King Jr. was among these, ironically, as he dreamed of a day when people would “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

If we’re teaching about black Americans, or white Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or Asian Americans, we’re doing the exact opposite of what the great reverend preached – we’re accentuating the differences between us, not erasing them.

We tell children that they should not judge people by their color, then confuse them by insisting that they study a person because that person is black.

Furthermore, having Black History Month is an insult to black Americans. It is implicitly segregationist. We’re designating a month (and, as Chris Rock once noted, the shortest one), to celebrate the contributions of black Americans.

Here’s an idea: How about we celebrate all people who contributed to society (regardless of sex, color or religion) throughout the year?

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