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Posted on 05/29/2021 7:50:48 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Inherit bias
FILMMAKER: As part of the AMS Challenge Project, seventh grade student Ashni Rhodes created a short documentary exploring the history of the region’s early development through the exploitation of Native Americans and enslaved Africans. Photo courtesy of Rhodes In the passage, Merrimon, who served as a U.S. senator and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (and for whom Merrimon Avenue is named), described slavery as a “divine appointment.” Later he added: “I am thoroughly convinced that Slavery in this country cannot be abolished without greater endangering our country. … If it is an evil in the abstract, it would be a greater evil to abolish it here.”
Uncovering this passage and other information about the region’s history had a profound impact on Rhodes. “I was extremely surprised to find out that so many of the people I was taught to look up to were actually pro-slavery and even slave owners themselves,” she says. “Learning our history unfolds the mistakes and achievements of our past and helps us figure out exactly what led to where we are today.”
Fellow classmate Kai Gilmer shares a similar experience. Whereas Rhodes produced a short film, Gilmer conducted a Zoom interview with Gail Thomas, a Cherokee elder. Speaking with Thomas offered insights into the Eastern Band’s history that Gilmer might not have otherwise learned. This included the role of the Doctrine of Discovery, which was used first by Spanish explorers and later European Christian settlers to justify the confiscation of lands from Native peoples.
“History teaches us that a lot of how we treat each other today is just about following what our ancestors did and not thinking for ourselves about how we actually want to treat one another,” Gilmer says. “We inherit biases and don’t work to change them.”
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Apparently the only thing that Kai Gilmer "inherited" was a lack of common sense and the lack of any awareness of the past 100 years of history.
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This is so scary.
Kai interviews a Cherokee lady, and is not even aware the Cherokee fought for the CONFEDERACY during the Civil War! The Cherokee also owned SLAVES, and carried slaves with them on their Trail of Tears forced march to Oklahoma.
Now, I am very pro Cherokee, and support the Cherokee Nation in every way (except for gambling), but this level of displayed ignorance is appalling.
Taking land by force, slavery, etc. was the way it was done 250+ years ago. We didn’t climb out of our caves one day and move into a fifteenth floor condo the next. The Kitty Hawk didn’t fly one day and the Space Shuttle the next. It takes time to develop improvements. Societal changes also take time to evolve. Leftists are doing their best to take us backward in time.
“Taking land by force, slavery, etc. was the way it was done 250+ years ago.”
You don’t think this is happening today?
Empathy for what? Slavery ended in the U.S. in 1863. Empathy for slaves long dead? Empathy for their decendents who were born free? Am I off the mark saying that all these "projects" are attempts to directly or indirectly hold an entire race of people (Caucasians) responsible for the sins of relatively few, who lived pre 1863? The last time I checked, a civil war was fought, which helped free slaves and hundreds of thousands of white soldiers died in that war. The history of American slavery has always been in our history books! What hasn't been taught is that white Americans in the 21st century are respnosible for the slave owners, institutions and laws that existed before 1863.
“There is so much that needs to be done in order for us to achieve full equality,” she says. “We need to inform other people that racial discrimination is still a thing, and that you can help change this by doing something as little as informing a friend about our history or stepping in someone else’s shoes for a day."
This girls speaks as though we have slaves in America today. I guarantee you that millions of Mexicans are not crossing the border illegally because we are a slave nation or because we’re not a land of opportunity.
We should have empathy for the poor, the sick, the destitute - regardless of their skin color. I resent those who attempt to hold a race (Caucasians) responsible for the sins of a small percentage of Americans who lived before 1863.
"The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them. Ezekiel 18:20
“You don’t think this is happening today?”
Of course it’s happening today. The difference is that it’s NOT acceptable now...many laws against it.
I always rely on 13 year olds for history lessons.. /s
“Slavery ended in the U.S. in 1863.”
That is not quite correct.
That is the northern version of history.
This type of “remorse” for what happened in the past can only exist in a society at the zenith of prosperity. Every physical need is met with little effort to obtain it.
There is no lack, or want for basic human survival in this country unless one is one of the mentally ill or drug addicted that the former system has abandoned by the millions to be used as sympathy props.
At some point in the future when the SHTF for the last time the entire collective of deceived woke-folk will be wailing and gnashing their teeth at being violently thrust into reality.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. It was passed in 1865 not 1863. My mistake.
If you're suggesting that the 13th amendment did not free all slaves in the U.S., what is your view?
It seems to be acceptable to China. Perhaps Russia as well, although they may be more justifiable.
Regarding laws, it seems we have uneven application of the laws, even within our own country.
She interviewed Elizabeth Warren?
That is not what I'm saying.
Your earlier reference to the year 1863 must have been a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation. Many northerners think because that the EP “freed the slaves” in the Confederacy that it ended slavery.
It did not. Constitutional slavery in the United States - and in Union slave states - required the passage of 13th amendment and that did not occur until well after the disaster at Appomattox.
Going to Asheville in two weeks to visit my mother. You cannot make up how crazy some people who live there are. It’s a mix of wealthy yoga moms & earthy crunchies.
If you want a real kick read the letters to the editor of the Mountain Express. My mom saves them for me. By the way there is an unbelievably delicious bakery on Merrimon Ave. (spelling?)
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