Posted on 10/24/2021 11:52:29 AM PDT by artichokegrower
America be lying.
Although language purists will argue that the previous sentence is grammatically incorrect, it shows why African American Vernacular English (AAVE), is sometimes more accurate than Caucasian American Vernacular English (CAVE).
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You be an idiot
You, idiot.
I’m just fine. The Holocaust was like 80 or so years ago and the world (except Israel) wants to say it’s so yesterday but these whiners keep bringing up white guilt over slavery that happened over 180 years ago.
For more than a century, school districts preferred textbooks that taught students about “happy slaves” and framed the Civil War as a disagreement over taxes.
I didn’t learn until over a decade later that Lincoln added the slavery issue to get more political and cultural support for the war, which was not going well.
The author is lying. I graduated from public school in 1972. We were taught it was about slavery.
the dude be most idiotic
Wow, that was created by a glittering jewel of collossal ignorance. He should run for president. No, wait....
“For more than a century, school districts preferred textbooks that taught students about “happy slaves” and framed the Civil War as a disagreement over taxes.”
Which century and which school districts is the author talking about? Certainly not the ones that I was in.
Interesting - you "learned" things that aren't at all true. It was indeed about slavery and white supremacy - the Confederate states said so quite plainly / explicitly in their statutes that they passed to secede from the United States as the sole reason for doing so. Their politicians said so in their speeches. I take them all at their word. Original sources straight of what they said with their own pens and their own mouths - not what someone "said" they said. I think they know why the seceded more than revisionists trying to whitewash the reality of it after the fact.
“I didn’t learn until over a decade later.....”
Yeah well.... it took over 40 years for me to find the truth via a book found at a second-hand store. Read it and was enlightened. Then I got PO’d for being lied to in my early years.
I was in public school in the ‘70s and ‘80s and you better believe the standard talking points were in place. At least in this liberal, slightly Yankee area.
There was little to no talk about living conditions, though. So no “happy slaves”, but no genuine discussion about how slaves were treated, etc. just a tacit understanding that the south was evil.
The point was overall history. Not specific cultural and lifestyle history.
While my mother is huge on American history and partly taught it, going by school and news and TV of the time, we were definitely supposed to believe the US was perfectly correct in the CW. Otherwise, not so much. Which is exactly the liberal mindset. They hate the US and everything about it, except the CW where suddenly the US did everything right and was the good side.
He should move to Wakanda. It’s off tha mutha’ ******’ chain Son!...
And they totally ignore who it was that was instrumental in ending the slave trade and all the white folks who ran the Underground Railroad and fought for the North in the Civil War.
There is proper grammar, and then there be the vernacular.
A liar, he be.
AAVE vs CAVE
Funny...they both use the last word - ENGLISH.
Really? No they did not.
Republicans still refuse to admit voter suppression exists or that there was an insurrection on Jan. 6.
Both of those are false - voter suppression has existed and carried out by Democrats since their founding as a racist, pro-slavery party, then a segregationist, KKK party - still suppressing votes by supporting fraud which dilutes legitimate votes and supporting white supremacist narratives by saying only whites are capable of knowing how to use a photo ID and minorities are not capable of doing so. Some bad things happened on January 6th but we already know there was no planned insurrection after the FBI investigated - this is widely known and reported already - where has this author been?
Really? They didn’t teach you that? I came up quite a few years behind you so maybe the culture shift was already swinging but we learned that the civil war was not really about slavery but that the political influence of the abolitionists was necessary.
I live in the real world not the ideological one. So I accept that in war you need allies who may be in the fight for their own reasons.
4 words into the title and the author already confirms he’s racist.
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