Teach Racial History In Schools?

How can we ever expect to reduce racial tension in America if we don't educate ourselves about the problem?

It MUST be taught in schools.

Knowledge is Power.
 
Hello ThatOwlWoman,

ThatOwlWoman said:
Yep. How many times have we heard that "Obama was so divisive," because he talked about and sympathized with the black American experience? Even my husband told me that once upon a time. It's interesting that it's okay for a white male to speak of an event in his life where he was the target of discrimination or maltreatment. But if a woman talks about a similar thing she's being a whiny victim. And ditto for every black person who has experienced negative treatment and speaks of it today.
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The Trump Party is trying to ignore that racism even exists.

The Trump Party likes their white privilege and they want to keep it.
 
Yea, like teaching using fictional history like The 1619 Project or Zinn's irrelevant, cherry picked, A People's History of the United States does anything to fix the problem. Those are two examples of radical Leftist literature used in over a thousand schools in America today. Neither is relevant to history nor is either worthwhile in a class sampling US history like you'd find in K to 12 education. The 1619 Project is particularly egregious being historical fiction being taught as fact.
 
Cypress said:
It is not possible to teach high school students in American history classes about slavery and the civil rights movement, while pretending racism was not an underlying issue.
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Lol, the root of genocide of Natives & slavery of Blacks was profit motivated.
Not race motivated.
 
NikodemPoplawski said:
Disagree on Natives.
Robbing their land to extract profit is most certainly both typical of ethnic cleansing & profit motives.
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Most of the land taken east of the Mississippi was done as the result of native tribes siding with the wrong nation in European wars. They saw potential profit and territorial gain from doing so and when they lost with their European allies, they got smacked down for it. Nothing new there. That was standard practice at the time. No ethnic cleansing involved.
Sure, the Cherokee got absolutely screwed, but they are more an exception than the rule.

Other tribes like the Seminole, and later Apache and Modoc, brought it on themselves by being very violent and warlike. Nobody liked that and those tribes got smacked down hard for it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Most of the land taken east of the Mississippi was done as the result of native tribes siding with the wrong nation in European wars. They saw potential profit and territorial gain from doing so and when they lost with their European allies, they got smacked down for it. Nothing new there. That was standard practice at the time. No ethnic cleansing involved.
Sure, the Cherokee got absolutely screwed, but they are more an exception than the rule.

Other tribes like the Seminole, and later Apache and Modoc, brought it on themselves by being very violent and warlike. Nobody liked that and those tribes got smacked down hard for it.
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Trail of tears wounded knee massacre, the California genocide to name a few of dozens of ethnic cleansing events.
 
NikodemPoplawski said:
Trail of tears wounded knee massacre, the California genocide to name a few of dozens of ethnic cleansing events.
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The trail of tears was the Cherokee resettlement. I mentioned it. California's war on various tribes is more nuanced. There were individuals that did a lot of that sans government while others like the Modoc, were done because the tribe was war-like in its own actions. The Apache in the Southwest were the same way. Nobody liked Apache because they were for all intents nomadic criminals and horse thieves. They lived by raiding other tribes, then White settlers.
 
NikodemPoplawski said:
Lol

the root of genocide of Natives & slavery of Blacks was profit motivated.
Not race motivated.
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State of Mississippi Declaration of Secession, 1861

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The trail of tears was the Cherokee resettlement. I mentioned it. California's war on various tribes is more nuanced. There were individuals that did a lot of that sans government while others like the Modoc, were done because the tribe was war-like in its own actions. The Apache in the Southwest were the same way. Nobody liked Apache because they were for all intents nomadic criminals and horse thieves. They lived by raiding other tribes, then White settlers.
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Considering the perpetrators typically weren't really indigenous, then it is unquestionably a colonial ethnic cleansing event.

Ultimately, however most died to disease, rather than by actual physical intrusion.
Still, in it's own right was still genocide.
 
Obviously there is a lot of confusion about race in America, a lot of conflicting ideas, so it is only prudent that we should teach about racial issues in our schools.

If we don't there are going to be a lot of misperceptions which will continue to exist and hurt our country.

This is just basic logic.
 
Germany teaches the holocaust in school. They take about the Nazis and how they happened. T[hey want to prevent it from happening again. Repubs want to whitewash the mistreatment of minorities. It is something we did from the beginning and are still doing.
The point is to make what we did to go away . The Repubs want to pretend it did not occur.
 
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