Teach Racial History In Schools?

[PoliTalker]

Hello Nordberg,

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.

The Trump Party is the problem. They are racist and very afraid to lose the white privilege they refuse to admit they have.

They don't acknowledge white privilege because they don't want to lose it, and they don't want race issues taught in school because they don't want people to be able to recognize racism when they see it.

The Trump Party likes the racial mess we are in just the way it is. They don't want to change a thing. They don't think it's a problem. They think it's just fine, but they will all tell you that 'BLM is the problem.'

Well if 'BLM is the problem' then there must BE A RACE PROBLEM. (They never thought of that, oops.)

That's why we need to teach our young people all about it and teach them the truth the Trump Party doesn't want to admit.

We can't solve racial tension so we have to punt to the next generation. Let's make sure they are armed with the knowledge they need to address the issue properly.

Teach Racial History In Schools?

YES

Of course we should. It only makes sense.

 

[TOP]

What truth should be "taught", Poli? Specific lesson plans...please.. Take your time...

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

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.

Ah, so by your lights if "nobody likes" you, it's okay to be genocided?

The Apache were and are some of the finest warriors on the planet. Are you aware of how many indigenous Americans have served this nation in the armed forces? Yep, even though the country had a policy of destroying their culture, relocating them to barren wastelands, and starving them to death -- still they fought and died for this nation.

"Native Americans serve in the United States’ Armed Forces at five times the national average. For a community that has persevered through decades of challenges, Native Americans – also called American Indians – have remained steadfast in their defense of the United States as members of the Armed Forces for centuries. And while Native Americans have a long and complicated history of serving in the U.S. military, it is also a proud one.

"Here is a look at Native American contributions to the military, throughout history and today."

Source: https://www.uso.org/stories/2914-a-...icans-in-the-u-s-military-yesterday-and-today

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

What truth should be "taught", Poli? Specific lesson plans...please.. Take your time...

Ah, whoring for attention *again*? Aren't you the racist who claimed a while back that "none of my black neighbors feel oppressed"? How would you know, do you regularly take polls of ppl that aren't white like you?

Here's the part where you yell TDS and claim that the thread is yours.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Ah, whoring for attention *again*? Aren't you the racist who claimed a while back that "none of my black neighbors feel oppressed"? How would you know, do you regularly take polls of ppl that aren't white like you?

Here's the part where you yell TDS and claim that the thread is yours.

 

[BattleofHodow]

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.

Is modern Germany even a heck of a lot more tolerant than the current USA!?

Evidence seems to say no.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Ah, so by your lights if "nobody likes" you, it's okay to be genocided?

The Apache were and are some of the finest warriors on the planet. Are you aware of how many indigenous Americans have served this nation in the armed forces? Yep, even though the country had a policy of destroying their culture, relocating them to barren wastelands, and starving them to death -- still they fought and died for this nation.

"Native Americans serve in the United States’ Armed Forces at five times the national average. For a community that has persevered through decades of challenges, Native Americans – also called American Indians – have remained steadfast in their defense of the United States as members of the Armed Forces for centuries. And while Native Americans have a long and complicated history of serving in the U.S. military, it is also a proud one.

"Here is a look at Native American contributions to the military, throughout history and today."

Source: https://www.uso.org/stories/2914-a-...icans-in-the-u-s-military-yesterday-and-today

Neither the Apache nor Modoc were "geocided." They both faced pushback in the form of a war against them for starting one against the people that pushed back.

 

[Damocles]

Teach racial history? = yes.
Blame white kids who never had a part in it?= no.

Tell white kids they are in some way bad because of what folks did 7 generations ago? = No.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Teach racial history? = yes.
Blame white kids who never had a part in it?= no.

Tell white kids they are in some way bad because of what folks did 7 generations ago? = No.

I agree 100%. I also know that your last two sentences are bullshit fear-mongering by RW media.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello Damocles,

Teach racial history? = yes.
Blame white kids who never had a part in it?= no.

Tell white kids they are in some way bad because of what folks did 7 generations ago? = No.

Exactly.

Thank you.

We have to improve the situation. Prejudice is one of the most difficult things to change, but we have to do what we can to try to eliminate it. It limits us as a society. Hurts our culture.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello guno,

Wow.

402 years of oppression.

I think that's quite enough.

Let's end it.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Hello guno,



Wow.

402 years of oppression.

I think that's quite enough.

Let's end it.

Too bad The 1619 Project is a work of fiction, not fact.

 

[Minister of Truth]

The right seems to have a big problem with racism.

The Trump Party has made it perfectly clear they want to preserve white privilege. (Even though most of them don't want to admit it.)

CRT is nothing but a proxy battle over racism.

The Trump Party is very clear they do not want something called CRT taught in schools. Most of them don't even know what it is, or that it is not actually taught, but they know they don't want it. They have been told by Tucker Carlson that CRT means before you can have a discussion about racism, that you first have to admit: if you are white, then you are a racist.

That's their understanding of it, and that's all they need to know to know they don't want it.

They don't want to have to admit they are a racist because they don't feel like a racist.

OK, I'm good with that.

If you're not a racist then you should have no objection to teaching all about our racial history in public schools.

I'm sure there already is some teaching about racial history in schools. It's probably not enough, whatever they do. Mention it sometimes? Racial tension is a huge problem in America.

We have got to take definitive steps to address this issue.

It's cross-generational. It's been going on for many generations.

We have to try to improve the situation. We need to teach our young people about the problem and talk about changing the way we think about this, maybe having some children try to approach it differently than their parents.

We need to teach our real racial history in schools and talk about how people should act differently than they do now. The next generation is the future. We can help shape that now.

Should American schools teach about our real racial history and how it has and does affect our country?

I was in school before the big push for CRT, so, I learned nothing about race. In fact, I thought the people who Lincoln freed were all Irish and slavs.

 

[Nordberg]

Teach racial history? = yes.
Blame white kids who never had a part in it?= no.

Tell white kids they are in some way bad because of what folks did 7 generations ago? = No.

Who is doing that? What would such blaming look like.? Black mistreatment occurred long after 7 generations. Ever hear of lynching and the KKK? They are during your lifetime. How about separate but unequal education? Is redlining a civil war problem? Do you remember the desegregation battles? I marched in civil rights marches. Do you think ML King was 7 generations ago? How about Jom Crow and today's voter repression?
This is our real history and one that many are trying to return to.
When I was taking history classes, I felt bad for how we treated minorities and native Americans. I decided I was not going to be part of that.