Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

6 myths about the history of Black people in America(1619 alert!)
vox.com ^ | 2/18/2020 | Jessica Machado and Karen Turner

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 ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: history
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last
Aaaaaannnnnddd------GO!
1 posted on 02/20/2020 1:50:48 PM PST by rktman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: rktman

2 posted on 02/20/2020 1:55:36 PM PST by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

I’m not going to go to avid and read your link.

Why are you advertising for them?


3 posted on 02/20/2020 1:55:44 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Vox.com = fake news


4 posted on 02/20/2020 1:56:00 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

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.


5 posted on 02/20/2020 2:03:44 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

VOX = Howard Zinn


6 posted on 02/20/2020 2:08:32 PM PST by albie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

7 posted on 02/20/2020 2:28:44 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman
It isn't like these stories haven't been told ad nauseum.

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.

8 posted on 02/20/2020 2:43:16 PM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan

Uh, whatever?


9 posted on 02/20/2020 2:49:40 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: rktman
Not particularly scandalous or untrue.

I'd take issue with number 2, though.

It seems like the writer has a semantic quibble, rather than a valid point.

10 posted on 02/20/2020 2:49:55 PM PST by x
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

Dont read it.


11 posted on 02/20/2020 2:50:28 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: rktman
Did you read the article?

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.

12 posted on 02/20/2020 2:51:15 PM PST by boop (Diarrhea: "So hot right now!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

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.


13 posted on 02/20/2020 2:51:41 PM PST by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kaehurowing

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Apparently that didnt count.


14 posted on 02/20/2020 3:00:49 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Chode

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.


15 posted on 02/20/2020 3:03:36 PM PST by hanamizu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: rktman

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.


16 posted on 02/20/2020 3:05:52 PM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hanamizu

yup a picture says a 1000 words


17 posted on 02/20/2020 3:17:05 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: boop

Attucks managed to get hisself shot to death by ricocheting bullets during the “Boston Massacre.” That hardly qualifies him as a “patriot.”


18 posted on 02/20/2020 3:47:32 PM PST by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: LouAvul

“Attucks managed to get hisself shot to death...”


He was one of five killed. No one seems to know or care about the other four. I fully understand why he is featured in history books, and I don’t necessarily disapprove, but it would be nice if the other four got at least a mention...


19 posted on 02/20/2020 4:06:41 PM PST by hanamizu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: rktman

When people talk about reparations for blacks, I ask them which ones...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)


20 posted on 02/20/2020 4:25:21 PM PST by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-27 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson