[Maceman]

Yeah, I know you have to register. But it's free and worth reading.

Besides, there's always bugmenot.com

[sinanju]

Slavery's bad, don't enslave people, M-m-m-m-kay?

[kittymyrib]

Slavery was bad and was outlawed in the South 140 ago. How hard is that to learn? Now, ask the students in New York the dates of WWI and WWII, and which countries were involved and we'll see if any real history is being taught, as opposed to teaching about feelings.

[Phantom Lord]

Will they teach that the slave traders who sold them into slavery were black?

[reelfoot]

Will they also teach the young heads full of must about the "physical and psychological terrorism" involved in the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Europeans for hundreds of years by the Barbary Coast pirates of Northern Africa? How about the "physical and psychological terrorism" involved in the slavery flourishing in Africa TODAY where black Africans are enslaved by other blacks? Something tells me this won't be part of the indoctrination.

[squirt-gun]

Good reason to work hard and keep your kids out of the public school meat chopper.

[sinanju]

Seriously, they could teach more about how slavery corrupts societies that practice it and stagnates and feudalizes their economies.

The History Channel did a fascinating program recently about the ubiquitous slave-catching patrols that ruled the highways and byways of the antebellum South. Beyond merely catching runaways it was a ruthless, all-pervading form of social control and militaristic indoctrination that required all able-bodied white southern men (who owned a horse and a gun) of all social classes to participate.

Just like the Spartans and the Helots. The entire culture was shaped and forged and directed to keeping the blacks in their place. Poor whites (who often did side business with slaves and who could be bribed to help runaways) were similarly harrassed and terrorized. Some men who served in the "patrols" responded badly to that sort of power over others and abused it.

It was quite a lesson in how the "Peculiar Institution" could turn otherwise decent people into monsters.

[dsc]

"But it's free and worth reading."

Oh, goody. Free aggravation.

[ncountylee]

No, but if they do, Islams (on going) filthy hands and willing tribal envolvement should not be ignored.

[hotshu]

This is all about reparations. Give the chillrun a guilty enough conscience about slavery and by the time they reach the age of legal majority, it will be "unthinkable" and of course "racist" to resist any proposal to open the public coffers to the descendants of the despicable practice of slavery.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I hope they decide to let students read Thomas Sowell's new book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals." The history of slavery is explained very well.

As Professor Sowell points out, slavery was not a "peculiar institution" in the South. Rather it was the common lot of millions of people all over the world long before America was discovered.

Slaves were sold to white slave traders by their native chiefs who wearied on each other mainly to take prisoners to sell as slaves. Most of the slaves went to the Middle East (many still do). A larger number of slaves went to Brazil and other South American countries than went to North America.

The descendants of slaves should drop to their knees and thank God that their luck brought them to America where they were better treated as valuable property, and eventually freed and given full civil rights.

In South America, for example, it was cheaper to buy more slaves than to care for the ones they already had so slaves were simply worked and starved to death.

Slavery is still prevalent in some Middle Eastern countries and in substring Africa, for instance.

An interesting fact is that it is the white countries that first stopped the slave trade and then outlawed it thereby bringing the black chiefs' lucrative trade to an end.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I hope they decide to let students read Thomas Sowell's new book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals." The history of slavery is explained very well.

As Professor Sowell points out, slavery was not a "peculiar institution" in the South. Rather it was the common lot of millions of people all over the world long before America was discovered.

Slaves were sold to white slave traders by their native chiefs who warred on each other mainly to take prisoners to sell as slaves. Most of the slaves went to the Middle East (many still do). A larger number of slaves went to Brazil and other South American countries than went to North America.

The descendants of slaves should drop to their knees and thank God that their luck brought them to America where they were better treated as valuable property, and eventually freed and given full civil rights.

In South America, for example, it was cheaper to buy more slaves than to care for the ones they already had so slaves were simply worked and starved to death.

Slavery is still prevalent in some Middle Eastern countries and in sub-Saharan Africa, for instance.

An interesting fact is that it is the white countries that first stopped the slave trade and then outlawed it thereby bringing the black chiefs' lucrative trade to an end.

[BIGZ]

Good course to take if the History of Slavery is taught correctly.

Muslims were among the first slave traders walking the Africans East to the Muslim countries. The seafaring nations, Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, England, then transported African Slaves West to the New World to work in the sugar cane fields of South America and the Caribbean. The United States, as we know it now had very little to do with the actual removal and transportation of slaves from Africa, and made it un lawful to transport slaves in 1806.

History of slavery as taught in the schools of the United States insinuates that this country was totally responsible for the slave trade.

Small wonder we have racial problems all built on rewriting of History.

This is evident by the adoption of Muslim name by Ethnic groups, El this and Al that, Akim and Mustafa?

[mhking]

Anything to ensure that the next generation feels the collective guilt (among whites) and ongoing hatred (among blacks)....

Just damn.

 

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[NonValueAdded]

Perhaps they should open the curriculum to all forms of slavery in the 18th century and before. There were plenty of white slaves in the New World too. Just ask "what did Cromwell do?"

[Mr. Jeeves]

LESSONS OF SLAVERY

Lesson One: You can't grow a good crop of tobacco without plenty of slaves.

A lesson Fidel Castro has apparently taken to heart. ;)

[KC_Conspirator]

Ah, yet another instance of the minority victimhood industry.

[OldFriend]

Sure beats having to teach them how to read, do math, and learn some critical thinking skills.

[Marauder]

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.

[Still Thinking]

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.

[AmericanChef]

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.