Posted on 02/18/2007 7:39:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Wow. That's really racist. What about Chinese history? The Arab history? Mexican history? There's a lot of different races in this country.
Why don't they just demand AMERICAN history again? They've actually thrown that one out!
I think this should be an elective. Making it a required course for graduation is off-base.
Why just black history month? When are the PC nazis going to demand Muslim history month, or Gay history month? I do not understand how singling one ethnic group out for special recognition equals equality.
Why do they "quietly" oppose it? The first Amendment allows them to speak up loud and clear.
If the schools are singling out one race for elitist status, it's unconstitutional.
Egypt is part of the Mediteraannean culture, not African- Americans.
Because they'll be labeled racist if they vehemently oppose it.
Islam and homosexuality are a choice. Those should be left to the parents. Schools should teach only academics.
As an American institution paid for by all Americans, it should stick to American history. They should, at the very least, be teaching their students about the historical documents that influenced and direct our country.
Sounds good until the course itself is examined.
Judging by the segment titles it is pretty clearly a course in Marx's view of history as much as it is about Africans.
Will they speak at length at how Africans sold each other into slavery and how slavery and other barbaric customs are practiced on that savage continent to this day? Didn't think so...
their leaders knuckled under to the enemies
they were enslaved
they came to America
They were freed
their leaders knuckled under to the Democrats.
That's hardly shocking for public schools.
Citing the official US Census of 1830, there were 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners. -"Selling Poor Steven", American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Perhaps the group that had the strongest vested interest in seeing the South victorious were the black slaveowners. In 1830 approximately 1,556 black slaveowners in the deep South owned 7,188 slaves. About 25% of all free blacks owned slaves. A few of these were men who purchased their family members to protect or free them, but most were people who saw slavery as the best way to economic wealth and independence for themselves. The American dream in the antebellum South was just as powerful for free blacks as whites and it included the use of slaves for self-improvement. They bought and sold slaves for profit and exploited their labor just like their white counterparts.
Richard Rollins
BEGIN QUOTE: Abolitionist assertions that the bondsmen were frequently inadequately clothed, underfed, and driven to death are economically unreasonable. Masters wished to preserve the health and life of their slaves because a sick Negro was a liability and a dead Negro was worth nothing. A rough plenty prevailed on the average plantation. “The best preventive of theft is plenty of pork,” was the advice of a Virginian.
Slaves probably fared as well in the enjoyment of the necessities of life as did most of the free laborers of the country. One of the most respected of all Northern critics of slavery, Frederick Law Olmsted, wrote that the Southern bondsmen lived in quarters quite as adequate as those of most mill or mine workers elsewhere, and that the slaves were perhaps the best fed “proletarian class” in the world. He also testified that they worked less than did free laborers.
Incomplete statistics reveal that the slaves averaged somewhat higher sickness and death rates per thousand than did Southern whites as a whole. But the slaves were from all indications as healthy and long-lived as white common laborers in the United States before the Civil War. It was general knowledge at the time in Louisiana that the slaves were better off in these respects than were the thousands of Irish immigrant laborers engaged in clearing land and digging drainage canals on the sugar plantations.
The planters were reluctant to commit their expensive chattels to this dangerous work, but preferred to hire free laborers, whose loss by death, sickness, or injury cost nothing. A careful study of the figures on a group of 875 plantation slaves whose records are preserved indicates their average life expectancy at the time of birth to have been longer than that of the general population of such cities as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia during the same period. An authority on urban slavery concludes that the medical care, health, and welfare of slaves in Southern cities were superior to the care, health, and welfare of the free Negroes; and the outstanding work on the life of Negroes in the North at this time shows that they fared no better in such matters than did free blacks in the land of slavery. END QUOTE
Booker T. Washington.
BLACK SLAVEOWNERS
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
Child slavery today in West Africa?
http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/99ja/child.html
Slavery throughout history
http://www.freetheslaves.net/slavery_today/slavery.html
To support it is racist. "Blacks only."
Let's put it this way. I'm a pure blood Welsh that's an American citizen. Where's my Welsh history month? Without my ancestors working the coal mines, there wouldn't be a prosperous nation today. What about my heritage? If I'm cut, do I not also bleed?
I believe the argument goes, if you don't have economic power you can't be a racist.
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