Posted on 02/20/2020 1:50:48 PM PST by rktman
To study American history is often an exercise in learning partial truths and patriotic fables. Textbooks and curricula throughout the country continue to center the white experience, with Black people often quarantined to a short section about slavery and quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. Many walk away from their high school history class — and through the world — with a severe lack of understanding of the history and perspective of Black people in America.
Last summer, the New York Times’s 1619 Project burst open a long-overdue conversation about how stories of Black Americans need to be told through the lens of Black Americans themselves. In this tradition, and in celebration of Black History Month, Vox has asked six Black scholars and historians about myths that perpetuate about Black history. Ultimately, understanding Black history is more than learning about the brutality and oppression Black people have endured — it’s about the ways they have fought to survive and thrive in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I’m not going to go to avid and read your link.
Why are you advertising for them?
Vox.com = fake news
I consider Vox a slimy, left-wing propaganda site. Its omission of facts to push a leftist agenda is obvious to anyone with an IQ above a radish.
Its mis-reporting of the vicious Muslim attacks against the Buddhist population in Myanmar (Formerly Burma) is particularly odious.
VOX = Howard Zinn
Ok. I get it. Slavery was bad. Slavery was wrong. Some slaves were mistreated. Black people suffered.
Thing is, I didn't do any of that. So I don't feel guilty about any of it.
Uh, whatever?
I'd take issue with number 2, though.
It seems like the writer has a semantic quibble, rather than a valid point.
Dont read it.
Sure it's going to be anti-white, but the myths are certainly worth reading.
The theme seems to be mostly about how black people were resilient and some even prospered in America during the slavery era and beyond.
I really only found fault in that they claim that there were no black "patriots" during the revolutionary war.
I don't think that was true.
In fact there are a lot of schools named after Crispus Attucks.
If they want to get “woke” maybe they could talk about white slavery in early America—mainly Irish transported to the new world as “indentured” (slave) labor.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Apparently that didnt count.
Slaves ended up going to where there was money to be made using slave labor. We don’t remember now, but sugar used to be quite expensive and its cultivation was very labor intensive. Very little sugar could be grown in what is now the US so most slaves didn’t come here. Tobacco, indigo, and rice were cash crops, but no where near as valuable as sugar.
By the time the cotton boom started, importation of slaves into the US was banned. It’s worth noting that Congress voted to ban the international slave trade as soon as it was Constitutionally allowed.
Teaching American history should start with the fact that the FIRST slave owner in America was Black. He even went to court to prove his case, & won. So if there was slavery in America, you can thank a black man.
yup a picture says a 1000 words
Attucks managed to get hisself shot to death by ricocheting bullets during the “Boston Massacre.” That hardly qualifies him as a “patriot.”
“Attucks managed to get hisself shot to death...”
When people talk about reparations for blacks, I ask them which ones...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
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