FoeTwin said:
has anyone ont his board ever seen one before?
I will post some pix of the tree in a couple of days so you can see how short lived the beautiful fragrent purple and white flowers are....
FoeTwin said:
I think Carter G Woodson was inpired to start Negro history week by this plant becasue it only blooms flowers for one week in February
Woodson created negro week becasue textbooks had written off the black race as a lazy, shiftless group of people who have never built or contributed towards the betterment of society(Which is a
boldfaced lie, if I ever heard one!) So in my mind's eye, I visualize him peering through a window at the end of winter, glancing at a Japanese magnolia tree admiring its beauty, thinking to himself how his idea will probably be short lived like the flowers on the tree... Eventually mainstream society bought into the idea, extending it to the whole month of Feb Whitefolx were more than likely obliged to the idea since they would only have hear about black history for 27 days or 28 days on leap years, annually...Luckily, peeps like Tom Joyner celebrate black history every day and has teamed up with Mc Donald's to make black history educatoin a year long process...
@blight: A pine tree would have been a good tree, but people already associate that tree with xmas and no one really even knows about the japanese magnolia...have you ever seen one before?
