Not every mountain is moved with a major explosion. Most are moved by removing one large stone at a time. Change doesn’t happen by one man or woman, but every soul plays a part. That’s why this year I’m celebrating the everyday lives of the Black people in my life that, through their lived experiences, aided in the civil rights movement equally as important as any great leader.
Every year we celebrate Black History Month. We may donate to an HBCU, or acknowledge the great works of leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Mrs. Rosa Parks.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake‘s order to vacate a row of four seats in the “colored” section in favor of a white passenger, once the “white” section was filled.
We celebrate these leaders of the civil rights movement in the media and social media, but what of the countless African-Americans that through their daily lived lives are and have made a difference.
One thing I admire in the Trans community’s activism is the belief that living our truth in itself is a revolutionary act. For decades, LGBTQ people have fought not only for equality but just to be acknowledged as existing. No other group has had their very existence denied as LGBTQ people, let alone for their rights. There’s never been any denying there are Women, Latino, African Americans, or Jewish people. Oppressors knew they existed but denied equality as equal human beings in life.
So the idea that each single Trans and LGBT life that was represented in the world, be it the workforce, education, politics, or religion, was as vital as that activism for equality. Harvey Milk once said, “Coming out is the most political thing you can do.” To this day we celebrate National Coming Out Day, the annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11, to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, and more people to “come out of the closet”
I truly feel this is one of many LGBTQ contributions to other minority groups, celebrate your everyday people because each life removes one stone of discrimination at a time, simply by existing and living your life.
So after a year of being tormented by Covid, watching a NAZI raise arms against our country, and a group of people nearly possessed with nothing more than a form of Satanic idolatry, I don’t want to celebrate the great achievement of the Black community with a meme, a status or simple hashtag for a day.
I will celebrate every day lived, and revolutionary lives of the Black people that is #mylivedblackhistory. That not only contributed to the advancement of Civil Rights simply by existing but inspiring me. I hope my family and friend inspire you to share the Black people in your life to be CELEBRATED this month.
I will update these throughout the month, so do return and enjoy. I will also,, going forward in 2021, do the same for LGBTQ Pride Month to celebrate the LGBT people in my life.
#blackhistorymonthchallenge my Grandpa Sandy Beasley WW2 hero, grand nephew of Dr. Beasley one of the founders of Hartsville’s old Byerly Hospital, and grandson of Pee Dee Indian Bone family line. He was always a fun-loving man and never took things too seriously. . #mylivedblackhistory RIP Grandpa who passed in 91
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