Lenin and Hobson said the reverse was true, and I think that's more accurate. This is why we see Trump laying claim to Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, and now, Ukraine's natural resources.
Which is part of the reason Musk and Trump want to defund American education, call racism DEI and support measures like Texas 'fire without cause' clauses.
I learned about these events when I was about 50. One of my coworkers, now a friend informed me and I was shocked but not surprised. Sickened, but not surprised.
As a Norwegian, aka European, we were taught the civil war was about slavery. Or to be specific, that it was about states wanting the right to own slaves.
Germany also teaches about the truth for WW2, its a matter of the US not wanting to admit to its mistakes and past failures. That would conflict with the nationalism here and we cant have that… 🙄
I know.
It’s only recently though schools have really started teaching about the evils some Norwegians did during WWII. It was hidden, not to glorify ourselves, but because it was shameful.
Most of this list is only taught at higher level college courses, if that here in Texas. And i only learned about some of it because I was a history minor so i went through the higher levels of history coursework. A LOT of early hx here is “misguided” if not just straight up wrong
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We only learned *part* of the story of Helen Keller.
It seems that when she was finally able to make herself heard, they had no use for her.
If you don't know her past what you learned in 4th grade, remedy that now
💯. And even what we did learn was tainted. Helen Keller was an outspoken socialist. Dr. King was hated in his time by white America and he'd be hated today too. Most people have never heard the name Fred Hampton, or of COINTELPRO. Some states outlaw discussions of the history of racism in America.
Did they teach about the planned coup against FDR that Prescott Bush was implicated in? Foiled by 2-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient USMC General Smedley Butler who wrote "War is a Racket" explaining that the US Military were being used as hired goons for Wall Street?
Do they teach about the SDS, the Weather Underground and how the NRA backed the Mulford Act banning open carry in California (signed into law by Gov. Ronald Reagan) because the Black Panthers had armed patrols defending their neighborhoods against white vigilantes and racist cops?
Having already known about the Weather Underground, a few years ago I was walking in NY and found a weird but unassuming building. Looked it up. Turns out it was where the WU effectively died, when they accidentally blew up their house while preparing bombs. Sad story
Members of the cast and crew (Guns of Will Sonnett) said that Walter Brennan cackled with delight when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination was announced.
That sounds about right. The State of Texas using its market power to ruin textbooks for the entire country, carefully committing the lies of omission that helped craft the narrative of the present day. Spits: "Ptui!"
I learned about our neighbors and those that were bad actors at the time. Luckily, I had good teachers who cared about our development and learning. I didn't learn about the myths in American history until college
One book I read a long time ago was nationalist religious propaganda so blatant, that kid me was disgusted and suspicious of the book. I did, however find out most of the inequalities through academies on the internet in my early teenage years.
And project 2025 has that curriculum on speed & steroids! Clearly it didn’t work well since the majority of us are critical thinking compassionate empathetic caring humans!
The few in power - MUST BE REKOVED OF SAID POWER!!!
Who needs the right to vote anyway? Thinking about all that politics stuff is hard. Let Daddy Trump do it for you! Sure, most of us will suffer, but that's a price he's willing to pay while he sulks about Hellspawn Musk talking shit to his face and wiping his boogers on the Resolute Desk.
I only learned about Tula & Black Wallstreet in the last 7-8 years. I have in-laws who will argue to the death that the Civil War was not about slavery. To the best of my recollection,when I had Georgia History in Jr High, next to nothing was taught about slavery. Civil War was lightly skimmed over
I am Italian and when we studied the American Civil War, in school the teacher explained extensively how slavery was one of the causes because some states wanted to have slaves and others didn't.
Absolutely! Thank you for reminding us that what we hear and see is certainly not the whole truth. All of must stay vigilant and be informed of all the facts, not just the comfortable ones.
You're building a two tier education system in 'Murica, where the wealthy get educated and everyone else gets gaslit. Once the dollar has been dethroned as the world's currency, the US will slide into a feudal backwater to rival Europe in the early Middle Ages.
I'm nice, my husband and kids are nice. My close friends are, too. None voted for this. We're all American, but I never really thought of 'us' as a 'nice' nation with all the rednecks and blowhards in it. I thought of Canadians that way. 1/2
I'm really mad that while I knew things towards the bottom of the list, I certainly hadn't heard of the ones at the top. Looks like I'm doing some research tonight!
Thank you for this! You are correct I knew half of it. I used to get kicked out of history class cuz I knew they were lying and leaving stuff out. I can't imagine how much has been destroyed or deep sixth so that we don't know the truth. But it's clear this country's always had shitty principles
The U.S. current history is being rewritten as we speak - it’s going to be crucial for present historians to document everything that is happening so corrections can be made after the fall!
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I agree 💯
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The American Government has treated blacks terribly.
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None of that is meaningful. History is not meaningful. Imagine new worlds and new selves. Build radically different worlds and radically different selves.
Knowledge is power. Look deeply into your brain/mind and arbitrary culture.
I know that history is not taught well in a lot of states, but I taught history in California for 33 years, and we taught W.E.B. Dubious, the Tulsa Massacre, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and Ida B. Wells, etc. These are California State Standards. Not all states ignore history.
Well when I was in school in California in the late 60s & 70s I was not taught about any of these things. Glad to hear the standards have changed some.
You want to see what is taught in any state, go to the state department of education website and view the state standards.
I think before people jusge what is taught in the classroom, they should have the facts.
So true. So those of us who value truth and understand knowledge is power, our challenge, to educate others, our children and grandchildren, our neighbors and friends. 40 acres and a mule should not be a #1 web search but happy we have an open web atm. Generate content of historical truth.
We understood why Red stated decried African American History. They made every endeavor to teach the truth about America' s complete history to school children a crime. They banned the books that shed light on historical omissions. They appropriated black inventions. Yet, the truth shall prevail.
I remember in mid school history class we were learning about New Mexico history from a book specifically written about NM, along side our US history & they often contradicted each other. A kid asked why. The teacher said the US history book was written by white men and NM one by the people of NM.
Well just 1 of those I remember learning very clearly is that the civil war was about slavery. But I live in the north. Honestly social studies was my least favorite subject as a kid. Now that I'm a teacher, I make sure to teach it so that it's not boring and that my students can connect.
In Australia to stop schools from teaching the real history of a violent invasion and colonialism, right wing politicians call it "black armband history" and claim it's a lie and we continue to barely teach any true history for fear of them attacking schools
Absolutely knowledge is power. And self knowledge is powerful. Acknowledging the benefits and the automatic entitlement that has been provided to a person is vital. It is on us white people to change this. It is on men stand up for women. Right now it is women of color showing up!!!!
Yep, all true, and truly despicable. I remember feeling so ignorant and betrayed when learning about “Lucky Lindbergh” and the vile ideology he had. Touted as a hero and patriot. It’s happening again, read and teach your children truth.
Add to that list the lynchings of Hayes and Mary Turner, and the murder of Mary's unborn baby. That one story is such a gruesome example of the failures of reconstruction. Next time a southern pro-lifer tries to preach their values at you, remind them of Mary Turner's baby.
Don’t think this is just Repugs who haven’t learned or cared. Both parties are complicit in not teaching their kids well. Allowing the system that failed us teach us is the issue! Read the right books and question everything we’ve done as a country.
They elected a rapist, criminal, lying grifter. After his 1st term, after the insurrection and still they voted for him. You just need morals. But agree education failed.
I physically protested the🇵🇸 apartheid and genocide every president and invasion by US murder of US citizens by drone and by cops Wall Street Standing rock nuclear plant shut down stopping lithium at home and capital. Whose morals are you questioning?
Sadly it wasn’t until after I left college that I learned much of this and could see how America was “white washed” with selected history to mainstream in school text books. Being white is not a negative but seeing it only that way is. So many great contributions from the whole of our melting pot.
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It why I got the book “A True History of the United States”
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I recommend "Who Built America? Vol. 1: Working People and the Nation's History" and Vol.2.
They were sometimes used as textbooks in college classes but they are very accessible and interesting books. Lots primary and secondary resources were used which gives you even more reading material.
This needs to be told to all American kids. If the schools won’t do it, let’s find a way. Most kids have access to technology. Flood the places where kids go on their pads and phones.
The kids know what’s up these days for the most part in the urban areas. There have been multiple songs about what it going on if you listen to music in any generation. It is a form for protest and so your master doesn’t know what you are talking about. https://youtu.be/oDQXFNWuZj8
We learned about the Little Rock 9 but not the Harlem 9 or that High Schools were closed in Little Rock the next year. Too many White people would rather destroy something rather than share it, this includes our Constitutional Republic. White Nationalism/Supremacy is a horror for all! FFAFO time.
Here in Canada too... half the s4it we learned in elementary school was ass-backward, not only about American history, but about our own Canadian history and the destruction and subjugation of Indigenous Peoples.
The sum of what we learned about our history with Indigenous People was that there were these people called the "Metis" and once took a field trip to a "historic Iroquois site" where we got a demo of the 'spear thrower'. That was it. Makes me want to throw up in hindsight.
I’m learned a lot about history I love history. I don’t give a damn black white yellow green history fascinating to me. There was a state and I forget which one that had a town of Black people self efficient they had their own. Everything totally without interference or anything from anybody else!
It’s true that I was middle aged before learning most of those things, but we were taught the civil war was over slavery from the beginning. I was shocked the first time someone tried to sell me on that state’s rights BS.
That should be on a poster; it is 100% accurate. I remember the outrage from the media and public about the raised fist at the Olympics. The bravery it took to demonstrate took real courage-I forgot that he was stripped of his medals. He should have been awarded the Medal of Freedom.
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My father as a Realtor and developer in a fast growing Southern town fought against redlining as an appraiser and alongside Mel Watts and Julius Chambers as far as being the first white developer to use all Black investors to build a Black Lives professional’s building! Never racist in my home!
Yes, I went to a rural WV school, and my dad was an evangelical preacher, I regret not having that knowledge at a younger age, but now I educate myself with books & documentaries. Black history is American history!
I was fortunate to have a history professor at the University of South Carolina who made the point that the Civil War was all about slavery-Period. Thank you Dr. John B. Edmunds (RIP)
Reading Howard Zinn opened my eyes about the white centric narratives we have been force fed in our K-12 education
All true. I consider myself well read and decently educated, and I never heard of Juneteenth, Tulsa, Black Wall St., or the local history about the POC who got cleared out of a section of land that became part of Downtown Palm Springs (a descendent received $24M in reparations) until a few years ago
Racism is perpetuated by people refusing to accept responsibility and accountability for their own lives, successes and failures, instead blaming society and people who had nothing at all to do with long past history.
Yes, it is gruesome. Imagine being so poor and desperate that the opportunity to have teeth ripped out of your mouth could bring you so much needed money.
Crimes committed against white people have always been center stage or as crime committed against Black people is rarely reported. It makes me sick. I’m white and 66 and America is still racist as ever. It’s disgusting.
It's insane though. My kids know Kent St. They learned about it in school, know the story behind iconic picture. That this other story was just...pushed aside!
It is insane. I’m a Vietnam historian so I I’ve known both for a long time, but US teaching is so uneven that profoundly important events are too often ignored.
Thank you for putting this in my face. I needed to learn these lessons and I will be educating myself from this. I did know a few of these historic events but not all. I will be the change.
Jane Fonda's character, Hilary, in the movie This is Where I Leave You delivers the line "Secrets are cancer to a family." Suppressing and ignoring American truths, hurts all Americans. We must learn from our past.
Alabama history teacher had audacity to teach room full of grandchildren of enslaved the triplek was formed for good.
Only history lesson remember they taught and knew was wrong when it was taught.
Do you have to be from the South to recognize “trip/lek” as kluxers? It totally confused this west coaster until I finally saw “triple k.” Does three capital Ks get censored on Bluesky?
It's like saying Beetlejuice 3x or Tom Riddle's alter Ego. Some words are best left unsaid. If others have no issue saying, typing - that is their being. But why track mud into the house when there is a mat to wipe shoes off at the door?
Half of this I didn’t even know until I was an adult and out of college. I grew up in Georgia too, and even from 8th grade Georgia history we were taught about “states rights” without ever seeing or reading the secession document
It's a form of housing discrimination. The "red line" separated white neighborhoods from Black or other POC neighborhoods. You couldn't get a home loan, or even be considered as a buyer or renter, in the white neighborhoods if you weren't white.
I was born in ‘78, access to Black history wasn’t as starved or remarkable as it is now
My parents were from the deep South + migrated to the NY suburbs w/a collective of other skilled, professional, formally + informally educated, upwardly mobile Black adults from the organizing ‘60s + co-op ‘70s
They were first-hand witnesses + they along w/my grandparents + great aunts/uncles who we’d be shipped down south to stay with every Summer, were my professors + were gentle, knowledgeable, deer-hunting, fly-fishing, farming country folk + they were always armed to the teeth, aka were NO fools
My parents paid DEARLY for education for me + my sib which was White-run, very progressive + excellent
We lived in a multi-racial/ethnic NY community where Black history + scholarship was common, so was union organizing + Masonic lodges + bowling teams + swim meets + skating alleys +
Tommie Smith still has his medal. That it was taken from him is a commonly believed untruth. Also, even though the Olympic Committee asked that Smith & Carlos be removed from the Olympic Village, the US stood up for themuntil the Olympic Committee threatened to ban the entire US track team.
America is most powerful nation on earth because of its founding ideals of liberalism, enlightenment, secularism. It is Black Americans who have since its founding rallied around those ideals. American ascent then becomes synonymous with Black American history That is why there is push back. 🤷🏾♀️
History is written by those in power. I'm watching in horror as the us is attempting to erase and censure the mere existence of transgender people out of the public eye.
Yes! One of the best learning experiences I ever had was using the Amherst Problem Pamphlets as an approach to learning history and civics. An approach that allowed for both complexity and nuance.
Why are people so afraid to own up to their shit. Own up make amends. Do better. Never repeat that shit again and fucking be at peace. It’s not that fucking hard.
Forget making amends, just own up to it. The Germans did it in Germany, we as Americans did it in Japan after dropping bombs. But we don't do it here with our own people that have been done dirty.
Exactly. One lady said we don’t do that because the ones in charge are looking forward to doing it again. I agree. We have evil at the seat of power. It checks out tbh.
Always learning, sometimes disheartened and disgusted, sometimes encouraged.
Our country has had its share of proud times and despicable times. We need to keep learning and sharing the bad parts so we don’t have to live through them again.
I don’t disagree with the point, but some of those things are false equivalences. Helen Keller was with learning about because she championed the cause of women and the disabled as well as people of color. George Washington having wooden teeth was a lie. Leave her out of this.
Peter Norman stood next to Tommy and Carlos - they had raced each other before the olympics .. they were "friends" (in the sense that I know who you are and I will destroy you) .. Peter held the Australian 200m record for more than 40 years but he was still attacked for standing next to his friends.
Their anti-DEI crusade is a transparent attempt at maintaining systemic racism and sexism because deep down the fascists now they're the dregs of humankind.
I am a 65 yo white woman in Indiana.
I am pissed that I didn't learn these things in school.
Graduated 1978
I am even more pissed that my daughters didn't learn these things in school. Daughter #! graduated in 1998 and daughter #2 graduated in 2021
2 daughters, a generation apart and nothing changed
I've learned a little bit about most of those, but from PanAfrican Studies classes in college or personal reading more recently. Nothing was said about any of them in K-12 education.
There have been many failures in public education. This is a huge hole in our knowledge base. I took a class in college, History of Black Music. I wish I had taken PanAfrican Studies like you did. Not sure if there was such a thing in the 70s, but it would have filled some gaps, I'm sure.
2/ ... I went to a predominantly Black high school, but that college class was my first time feeling myself to be the minority. It gave me a healthy respect for what that means. I was never threatened, but there were times (especially studying Baraka) that there was some tension in the room.
I had an entirely different experience. We had one black family in the town I grew up in. Thankfully I got an education in diversity and inclusion when I went to college. I had already been a bleeding-heart liberal, but I became more aware as one does when they grow up (hopefully!).
1/ I took a couple of classes in PAS, in the early '80s. The one that actually taught me the most was African American Literature. That introduced me to several influential writers, particularly WEB DuBois and Amiri Baraka. There were 2 of us anglos with around 30 Black classmates. I went to...
Did we learn that 51,000 mostly boys died in the battle at Gettysburg? Did we realize that two arrogant men sent 51,000 of someone else's sons to die on a field. Did anyone win? Are either one of the leaders honorable? Women would never do that.
Margaret Thatcher did just that. As did Queen Elizabeth the 1st and Catherine the Great. Cleopatra. Women are not immune from wanting great power or having great egos. While in general, I agree women can make better, more collaborating leaders, not all of them do that. Some are right up awful.
As an early- mid 40 something, with public school MA education, I am pleased I was taught most of those in school. Others from local NPR. No wonder we’re REALLY blue up here. 💙
I never learned about China's connection to the US economy since its founding until I was an adult. History classes are disgraceful and don't give kids the proper foundation to understand international or domestic dynamics, let alone dismantle racism.
That's the great thing about studying history in college. I finally learned the truth about a lot of things. Years after I graduated, I still study the truth.
Even my Helen Keller education stopped at Anne Sullivan. I was in my twenties before I found out she was a radical labor activist...which is a lot more inspiring to me. (We read Du Bois in class, but you're dead right about the rest).
Just learned about the riots and Black Wall Street about 3 years ago, and I’m from Tulsa. Greenwood and Archer is a learning experience now and a really nice place to spend the day!
Finallylearning about Tulsa and Wilmington tore my heart. How can people wake up the morning after and act like nothing happened? How are they not haunted by their cruelty.
Being that cruelty was the point they probably woke up feeling accomplished and justified. Shitty people who can't rise to meet success knock down others they think are less worthy of it.
Sorry this is optimistic &very generous! MOST of the facts listed as “you learned about” are things almost no American has ever heard of … until they see this list !
It figured we had finally crossed the divide. Little did I realize that in doing so, one racist ass told all the bigots and scum to come out from under their ricks and out if their holes. And once wasn’t enough. I truly believe the orange menace and the fascist GOP want to rip our country apar
That’s white America for you.
I grew up in the late 60’s and saw what I believed to be real change and I think that at the time it was real and sincere. Not perfect but a step to move the needle forwards.
Then the unimaginable happened. We elected not once but twice a black man.
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Speaking as a Southerner, if you ever hear the words "The Civil War was about State's Rights!" you simply nod in the affirmative and respond "Yes! The State's Rights to own people!"
There is usually a very enjoyable stammering to follow!
Or “the south will rise again”. I am not a southerner but my husband was career Army. Heard small children say, with conviction the south will rise again while carrying a confederate flag. I saw “ whites only” drinking fountains and bathrooms in the 90’s. How about “ chocolate gravy”?
When I was really young, 5, 6, 7 years old, I remember having Confederate flags and "Hell no! We won't ever forget!" and "The South Will Rise Again!" stickers.
Bought them at the gas station.
It was sly indoctrination becuse I was too young to know what it meant.
I grew up in the SF Bay Area, in the 60’s. Married an Army sgt and moved to Fort Bragg NC, holy crap what a shock. Sexist, racist people unlike I had ever encountered. I’m a white female, educated ( graduated UC Berkeley) and my indoctrination to the south was not pretty. It was scary.
I am so upset that we were never taught all of history. I am reading and learning every day now to make up for everything I did not learn. My eyes continue to open further. And I will pass this on to my grandchildren so that they may pass it along as well.
I have found the best way to learn is to follow Black creators, watch films by Black directors, and most importantly, read books by Black authors. Fiction has given me great insight into the Black experience, but non-fiction is where I’ve learned history I would never have learned otherwise.
Can I also just say that while it’s great to appreciate Black creators like @cwebbonline.com for educating us, it’s up to us to keep educating ourselves. Take what we learn from the creators to look deeper ourselves. It’s the least we can do to respect them and their experiences, current and past.
I can! “How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith, “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson, and “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” by Emmanuel Acho” are all excellent for non-fiction. In fiction, “Memphis” by Tara M. Stringfellow, “The Reformatory” by Tannarive Due, con’t
“Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler, “The Darkest Child” by Delores Philips & “The Girl with the Louding Voice” by Abi Daré, & anything by Toni Morrison or James Baldwin.
W.E.B. Du Bois & Angela Y. Davis are on my TBR for non-fiction, plus several other books by various authors. So many to choose from!
The more Black authors I read, the more I learn about, & add their books to my ever-growing TBR. They all take me places I’ve never been & put me inside experiences I’ve never had. I can’t say how many times I say JFC as I’m reading. What Blacks have had to endure is more appalling than I ever knew.
In all transparency, I only began intentionally reading Black authors last February in honor of Black History Month. But the more I read, the more I wanted to learn & understand. So I’m still at the beginning of my self-education journey, but I am so glad I started it & adding more diversity overall
I was so fortunate that my mother loved history. Still remember as a 12-year-old white girl being called in to the living room to her command of "listen!". It was the first time I heard Strange Fruit. That was 1956. I'm still listening.
I love that phrase.
I remeber reading the cover of a CD by Ice Cube and his information on Black history - great thing to do.
Do you know in the '70s they had places where such things would be taught?
Before CIA flooded them with drugs.
Exactly the case. Astronomical losses in equity borne by black families in Chicago due to redlining and other discriminatory practices. Lacking assets, investment in business, education and healthcare suffer. https://www.luc.edu/features/stories/equityandinclusion/fairhousing/
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It’s only recently though schools have really started teaching about the evils some Norwegians did during WWII. It was hidden, not to glorify ourselves, but because it was shameful.
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It seems that when she was finally able to make herself heard, they had no use for her.
If you don't know her past what you learned in 4th grade, remedy that now
Exactly…Put the truth right where everyone can get!!!
Oppositions greatest fear is that we unify.
The few in power - MUST BE REKOVED OF SAID POWER!!!
The rest I somehow knew. Not sure if I had good teachers or just watched the right things on TV.
/I used to think the US was nice.
Some others I've dropped because they supported running the campaign bus of their political opponents off the road with trucks.
Now, I will NEVER think of Americans that way but WILL continue to think of Canadians as such. 🇨🇦
If you feel inconvenienced or annoyed when asked to #AltText that is institutional ableism expressing itself.
Like all fascists, Trump and Musk despise disabled people. #AltText is an act of resistance.
And easy to do.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-add-alt-text-to-images-on-bluesky-and-why-you-should/
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
I agree 💯
Please know that #educated #providers are taught and study the #TuskegeeExperiment and fully absorb the weight of such.
The American Government has treated blacks terribly.
#KnowledgeIsPower
#Unite
It appears that asshole is too busy stumbling around & creepin on innocent women to take my message.
Knowledge is power. Look deeply into your brain/mind and arbitrary culture.
I think before people jusge what is taught in the classroom, they should have the facts.
This is how opens. The disgusting abusive attitdude there from the start:
GET THE BOOK.
I'm happy to know the truth than to know what happened as written by their executioners.
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We’ve been lied to forever….
I recently finished Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and it was really mind blowing.
They were sometimes used as textbooks in college classes but they are very accessible and interesting books. Lots primary and secondary resources were used which gives you even more reading material.
https://youtu.be/oDQXFNWuZj8
I am putting the rest on my list
I've learned a bit about W E B DuBois...his determination to get an education is so admirable. First black Harvard grad! Much more to learn.
Mary fields, and her private resistance . I had no idea there was forced birthing, to aquire more land for the masters 💔
by keeping people ignorant people will not ask questions
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Reading Howard Zinn opened my eyes about the white centric narratives we have been force fed in our K-12 education
You could also add:
You know about FDR and the New Deal, but about the attempted coup.
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/health/washingtons-teeth/george-washington-and-slave-teeth
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9266983/
“His [white] story.”
Because nearly everything I [gratefully] learned IN that museum… I was learning for my very first time. Infuriating.
And it’s WHY I do #thetimeline
Only history lesson remember they taught and knew was wrong when it was taught.
Automated censorship doesn't seem to be the vibe.
3 K's = Ku Klux Klan
triplek =???
OIC it means "Triple K"
Thank you for clarifying. I had no idea what it was.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/intro.htm
everything else thankfully known
My parents were from the deep South + migrated to the NY suburbs w/a collective of other skilled, professional, formally + informally educated, upwardly mobile Black adults from the organizing ‘60s + co-op ‘70s
We lived in a multi-racial/ethnic NY community where Black history + scholarship was common, so was union organizing + Masonic lodges + bowling teams + swim meets + skating alleys +
Our home, everybody’s home, was FULL of every encyclopedia set + other literary collection every door-to-door salesman could sell
They were pallbearers at his funeral
Forgotten the source if anyone knows, been saying it since i was a gay teenager during the Bush years
Our country has had its share of proud times and despicable times. We need to keep learning and sharing the bad parts so we don’t have to live through them again.
And thank you, as I now have lots of things to discuss with my children.
I am pissed that I didn't learn these things in school.
Graduated 1978
I am even more pissed that my daughters didn't learn these things in school. Daughter #! graduated in 1998 and daughter #2 graduated in 2021
2 daughters, a generation apart and nothing changed
I never learned about China's connection to the US economy since its founding until I was an adult. History classes are disgraceful and don't give kids the proper foundation to understand international or domestic dynamics, let alone dismantle racism.
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Vote Blue in 2 IF there is an election.
No country has ever acted with more determination or expended more effort in crafting its national mythology than the US.
Not remotely close.
NYC 1939
I grew up in the late 60’s and saw what I believed to be real change and I think that at the time it was real and sincere. Not perfect but a step to move the needle forwards.
Then the unimaginable happened. We elected not once but twice a black man.
I HOPE THIS CATCHES YOU
Please just take a look at my FULL draft legal strategy on my page to stop Elon/Trump.
THOUGHTS PLEASE!
I believe it'll be worth the time. I have a draft letter for officials too.
#DISCUSSIONNOTLIKES
#DefeatElon
There is usually a very enjoyable stammering to follow!
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When I was really young, 5, 6, 7 years old, I remember having Confederate flags and "Hell no! We won't ever forget!" and "The South Will Rise Again!" stickers.
Bought them at the gas station.
It was sly indoctrination becuse I was too young to know what it meant.
W.E.B. Du Bois & Angela Y. Davis are on my TBR for non-fiction, plus several other books by various authors. So many to choose from!
I remeber reading the cover of a CD by Ice Cube and his information on Black history - great thing to do.
Do you know in the '70s they had places where such things would be taught?
Before CIA flooded them with drugs.
Its citizens against Nazi oligarchs.
https://www.luc.edu/features/stories/equityandinclusion/fairhousing/