What message does Black history month really send?

Miss. Black America, Black History month, Black TV Online, what are we teaching our children with these?  I believe it is time to reunite America.  We have just elected our first African American President and I know that is not prof positive that we have changed and are as a nation completely done with the racism that has plagued us, however I believe that it is prof of progress and a willingness to change.  I believe it is time to start taking the race matter out of the spot light, maybe if we don't make such a big deal out of the fact that I'm Native American and my best friend is African American we will be able to move past the ugliness.  I think we need to study all the wonderful achievements of blacks in history but no more so than any other race.  Black History month was started in 1924 after Carter G. Woodson discovered that change could not be made just by concentrating on the academic community.  I believe that in the past it was necessary and helpful, however I don't think that is the case anymore.  We have a month of most nationalities in the country but none are celebrated like black history month, most people don't even know that the others exist.  I honestly believe that where black history month and Miss. Black America were once needed to make life fair and to bring attention to important issues, I don't believe that to be the case anymore. I think that it is time in history to take the emphasis off race and start putting back on to the character of the person.