What’s wrong with plain old American American history? History about Americans that loved America no matter their race, creed or national origin?
The main problem with any of this other than it flat out is advocating for balkanization is the way it is taught is to bash whites.
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Chicago. They should teach African history to stop the rising violence against African American people by other African American people. It’s all about awareness.
Get your decoder ring out. Any other “brand” of history is just a not-so-subtle attack on white America.
I wonder if they’re going to be teaching about the attack on Pearl Harbor? Oh wait, I’m sure that happened because of something bad that we did……….
Hate to say it but the ones committing most of the violence against them either aren’t in school anymore or not paying attention, relying on a racist grading system to graduate.
“We are setting a new standard for what it means to truly reckon with our history.”
What does this mean?
He needs to reckon with English.
There are 21 million Asian Americans. There are 44 million German Americans (nearly as many as African Americans at 47 million).
Where the hell is the justice in ignoring us German Americans? I demand German-American history be taught in our schools!
Where are my reparations, too? Where is my history month?
I wonder if they’ll include the bit about how Jack Kennedy and his brother killed Diem and HIS brother.
Duckworth’s doing?
A semester to study the history of dry cleaning?