[sarasmom]

Big Bump!

My child is in second grade, and is being told that MLK is the greatest man who ever lived in this country.She has no idea who Abe Lincoln was.She was taught that George Washington was greedy, and that all whites are greedy

Go figure

We had a wonderfull talk about how white and black and red people used to treat each other back in the old days, and how Lincoln and MLK just wanted us to treat each other based on how we acted, not by the color of our skins.

The ongoing pittfalls of trying to raise my child color-blind, as MLK rightly advocated,and avoiding the "white guilt" the current batch of race-baiting media whores and liberal history revisionists tout as truth, while teaching her to respect her Sioux ancestry is starting to make my head spin.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

My daughter came home from elementary school several Januaries ago to inform me that MLK freed the slaves. I had to inform her that it was the nation's first Republican president who did that.

There's no way to raise a child color blind in today's public school system. She played with children of African and Asian heritage and never noticed a difference in peoples' skin colors before the school system taught her about it.

I thought it was interesting that when she studied native NW cultures they omitted the fact that coastal Indians were notorious slavers, and used to kill slaves wantonly for sport in demonstrations of wealth at potlatches. Makes the white European history of slavery look 'enlightened' in comparison.

By the way, history indicates that more black Africans were sold into slavery to Arabia than to the Americas. Where's the big black population today in Arabia? You'd think the Religion of Peace would have ensured their preservation.

[Captainpaintball]

My child is in second grade, and is being told that MLK is the greatest man who ever lived in this country.She has no idea who Abe Lincoln was.She was taught that George Washington was greedy, and that all whites are greedy

Really? What are you going to do about this?

[bigunreal]

It's commendable that you are trying to raise your child in a color-blind way. However, the problem is that virtually every black child in America is being raised to believe that skin color and race not only matter, but are the most important component of one's identity. I can't understand why more people can't see how this will lead to disaster someday. What message are we sending every child, of every race, during Black History Month? Because of all the (probably purposeful) policy mistakes of white leaders over the past few decades, there is no easy solution here.