I am doing a project at the school where i teach........why black history month needs to be retired

I am doing a bulletin board at my school
For Obama and black history month.
Firstly I will say that ……..although
There is a need for colored children to know their history.
Black history month should now be retired
So what if it is
The only time that many artist of color can get a show.
It locks them, us in a box and allows the world
Not to really see us.
And besides
With so many new immigrants coming into the country
With stories that are just as hurtful and triumphant
We are not alone………….. As any blacks
Our pain is in fact all inclusive
Its silly and unenclusive
My bulletin board
At the after school program
Where I teach
Ok
Here is what I did
I took a popular picture of Obama and made copies
It had a flag on it
I made the kids change Obama into a likeness
Of some one from their own country
Where do they come from?
Ecuador, Peru, Columbia, Brazil, Portugal, Puerto Rican
By the time it was done
It was amazing to see
Puerto Rican
Obama
Portuguese Obama
Obama is an idea now
It’s about fighting and changing and growing and seeing
So for me to do a board that just features blacks
In a school that I now is mostly Latino is silly
We have to show these kids
That they are in the trenches together
And that only by working as one can we change things
I won’t do a bulletin board with out Spanish on it
I simply won’t
Because I remember being one of few colored kids
In a class
And the isolation
Of it
Where it not for my father
Who drummed pride in my head
I would have walked the path of many
Hiding from whence I come
So its time to take Obama to the next level
And realize that these white kids and Latin kids
Are here with us
In the trenches and it will take each and every one of us to
Get out of it
I mean that
God I really sound like a old colored man
Buts that’s ok
I was riding on the bus today when a black kid started cursing and cursing
He was just going off
Off
Bitches mf this mf that
Some one yelled at him to shut up
And he kept it up to a few people said
Shut the fuck up or else more or less
Then some one on the bus
Shouted Obama
Obama
And every one either yelled out
Obama
Or whispered it
I yelled it out
And the bus got quiet and so many of us
Black and Latino
Smiled
Just smiled
Like a secret
Like a secret
We don’t need black history any more
We are for the first time living it