Posted on 08/12/2005 6:27:25 AM PDT by Maceman
Lesson One: You can't grow a good crop of tobacco without plenty of slaves.
A lesson Fidel Castro has apparently taken to heart. ;)
Ah, yet another instance of the minority victimhood industry.
Sure beats having to teach them how to read, do math, and learn some critical thinking skills.
Even by the best estimates of black-run websites, fewer than 10% of all black slaves wound up in America. Most of them were sold in the Caribbean islands, South America or kept in Africa. Most slaves were captured and sold by black slavers.
It is still a thriving business today among black Africans. Whites did not start the slave trade and only a few whites participated for about two hundred or so years. In other words, it is now and has always been a black-to-black business. White people had very little to do with it.
If they forget to mention that the majority of whites had no part in slavery, due to living in areas of the country where it wasn't practiced, or descending from post-slavery immigrants, maybe we can sue them for hate speech making us feel bad.
Yes. Americans are terrorists. America bad, must pay money.
Speaking of money, it sounds like those "changes" the schools are advocating will cost more of it. PLUS think of the additional youth programs they can start (ka-ching!) to "enhance" the educational experience!
In schools, it's ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.
Nah. It will serve her better in the long run if she learns to recognize the progressive nonsense for what it is, and to learn how to stand and resist instead of being brainwashed.
I am there every step of the way, to aid and support her in learning that important lesson.
Agree.....There are many parents doing the same and no doubt many children in the public school system will receive a good education because of demanding parent(s) and will do just fine.
Where exactly IS substring Africa, where they wearied on each other to capture slaves? Just giving you grief, I saw you reposted with the errors fixed. ;-)
The biggest problem is that there are individuals, politically and private, that make so much money out of racial strife that can't afford to have the problem solved. This is true of the drug situation also.
I fail to see the educational benefit of this exercise. I am pretty sure that just about anyone, including school children, can understand that slavery is probably "Not a Good Thing".
The only logic for this activity is to teach black students that they have a grudge, and white students that they should feel "generation guilt" about something that has been gone for more than 140 years.
As stated earlier in this thread by sinanju,
Slavery's bad, don't enslave people, M-m-m-m-kay?
Exactly. The progressive leftists that run academia seek to perpetuate the cycle of racism for yet another generation.
Will they teach that the slave traders of today and for a long time have been Arabs?
I wonder how much this panel is going to spend doing this? How many of those tax dollars that were supposed to go to teacher pay raises?
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