Black History Month - Canada's 1st black nurse

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Bernice Redmon wanted to become a nurse but was refused entry to nursing schools in Canada. Instead, she went to St. Phillip Hospital Medical College in Virginia, U.S.A. and graduated with her nursing diploma in 1945. When she returned to Canada that same year, she became the first Black Nurse allowed to practice in public health after getting a

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Do you feel similarly about gay/queer pride? Or is that all right because it only lasts a week? What you propose is as absurd to me as straight folks who want straight pride. Every day is freaken straight pride day. Never mind the bigots who put on ex-gay "therapies".

I suppose the white history month to compliment this LJ entry would go something along the lines of: white Christian straight men could always attend nursing school if they wanted to, though likely even to this day, their sexuality would be called into question by many of their peers. They can still attend that college, no one had to do anything to give them that privilege or maintain it.

As a white man, I know that no part of Black History Month is about hating white christian men. Having a white history month, at least within a euro-decent centric country would be redundant to public school curricula, the vast majority of what's in mainstream media and all the other ways in which I learnt of the sanitized version of the victor's history.
The story of Bernice Redmon says as much if not more about white history than black history. That the white folks who put together nursing schools in Canada took the time to exclude who could enter in their policies and admission process among other things. Bernice Redmon wanted the same opportunities as her white nursing counterparts. No hate for whiteness there.