Doing "Something" About "Racism" in this Country

[FloridaYankee]

Absolutely.

[WuWei]

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@Jamerican

Not one person can tell our story. Maybe there should be a national curriculum for grade school…I really don’t know.

So we are already up against logistics.

Thanks for the book recommendations, I’ll check them out.

Tell me something, given that I have limited resources, why should I be interested in your story? Do you think those history teachers have my story right?

I know my question sounds a bit harsh, but I don’t intend it to be.

How does your story benefit me?

How can we get your story right if we don’t get everybody’s story right, or at least try to?

Why would you care about my story?

[Axxowiz]

No it’s quiet normal which is why everybody loves the ancestry DNA tests that’s been out awhile. I think most of us are curious of their ancestry and wish to learn more about it.

[coolidge]

Incorrect. Black history is not American history but it is a part of american history.

[FloridaYankee]

@WuWei

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@Jamerican

Not one person can tell our story. Maybe there should be a national curriculum for grade school…I really don’t know.

So we are already up against logistics.

Thanks for the book recommendations, I’ll check them out.

Tell me something, given that I have limited resources, why should I be interested in your story? Do you think those history teachers have my story right?

I know my question sounds a bit harsh, but I don’t intend it to be.

How does your story benefit me?

How can we get your story right if we don’t get everybody’s story right, or at least try to?

Why would you care about my story?

I don’t. I’m talking about what happens after you two burn all the history books.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@PurpnGold

Burn all current grade school history books and start over. Start from the “Discovery” of America and go straight into slavery. The timeline of America should have slavery woven all throughout it. Like the actual realities of it… not some white washed version.

Everything I was taught in school basically skipped over slavery as if it was just a minor thing that happened years ago. Lincoln was our savior! Yay we are free! No we need to teach real accurate history. Black History is American history.

I’ll think of more… but we have to start with education.

Can we get everyone together in the town square, pile up all the books, and cheer while we burn them?

[SixFoot]

@Mountain_Soldier

@PurpnGold

Burn all current grade school history books and start over. Start from the “Discovery” of America and go straight into slavery. The timeline of America should have slavery woven all throughout it. Like the actual realities of it… not some white washed version.

Everything I was taught in school basically skipped over slavery as if it was just a minor thing that happened years ago. Lincoln was our savior! Yay we are free! No we need to teach real accurate history. Black History is American history.

I’ll think of more… but we have to start with education.

Can we get everyone together in the town square, pile up all the books, and cheer while we burn them?

Maybe we could take that opportunity to teach people home economics. Start with something simple that anyone can do, like roasting a hotdog. Maybe even teach them how to balance their own budget?

[WuWei]

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@Jamerican

Not one person can tell our story. Maybe there should be a national curriculum for grade school…I really don’t know.

So we are already up against logistics.

Thanks for the book recommendations, I’ll check them out.

Tell me something, given that I have limited resources, why should I be interested in your story? Do you think those history teachers have my story right?

I know my question sounds a bit harsh, but I don’t intend it to be.

How does your story benefit me?

How can we get your story right if we don’t get everybody’s story right, or at least try to?

Why would you care about my story?

I don’t. I’m talking about what happens after you two burn all the history books.

Those books aren’t history books, they’re garbage.

[WuWei]

@Mountain_Soldier

@PurpnGold

Burn all current grade school history books and start over. Start from the “Discovery” of America and go straight into slavery. The timeline of America should have slavery woven all throughout it. Like the actual realities of it… not some white washed version.

Everything I was taught in school basically skipped over slavery as if it was just a minor thing that happened years ago. Lincoln was our savior! Yay we are free! No we need to teach real accurate history. Black History is American history.

I’ll think of more… but we have to start with education.

Can we get everyone together in the town square, pile up all the books, and cheer while we burn them?

We’re talking about grade school text books. Not actual books.

[PurpnGold]

@Mountain_Soldier

Can we get everyone together in the town square, pile up all the books, and cheer while we burn them?

Not sure why we need some sort of ritualistic ceremony. We just need to start over on grade school history books. They are garbage.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@PurpnGold

@Mountain_Soldier

Can we get everyone together in the town square, pile up all the books, and cheer while we burn them?

Not sure why we need some sort of ritualistic ceremony. We just need to start over on grade school history books. They are garbage.

Well you said burn them. I’m picturing a big pile of them out in the streets, people standing by and watching the inferno, cheering, under the watchful eyes of the leaders…

[PurpnGold]

@Mountain_Soldier

Well you said burn them. I’m picturing a big pile of them out in the streets, people standing by and watching the inferno, cheering, under the watchful eyes of the leaders…

Cant they just as easily be burned in an incinerator?

[Roxiebelle]

NOT a good thing, that’s censorship and violates our 1st Amendment free speech rights.

Change should start in the schools, as in school choice, no teachers union, and no tenure. JMO

[FloridaYankee]

@WuWei

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@FloridaYankee

@WuWei

@Jamerican

Not one person can tell our story. Maybe there should be a national curriculum for grade school…I really don’t know.

So we are already up against logistics.

Thanks for the book recommendations, I’ll check them out.

Tell me something, given that I have limited resources, why should I be interested in your story? Do you think those history teachers have my story right?

I know my question sounds a bit harsh, but I don’t intend it to be.

How does your story benefit me?

How can we get your story right if we don’t get everybody’s story right, or at least try to?

Why would you care about my story?

I don’t. I’m talking about what happens after you two burn all the history books.

Those books aren’t history books, they’re garbage.

I don’t disagree for the most part.

[WuWei]

So far it seems that most of the ideas are directed at the school system.

[DMK]

@SixFoot

Maybe we could take that opportunity to teach people home economics. Start with something simple that anyone can do, like roasting a hotdog. Maybe even teach them how to balance their own budget?

Education is key.

What kind of education, what kids learn is also key. If we are going to have education tinged with social justice, then that is not (IMO) a good thing.

Not only should home economics be taught, but bring back shop classes. Kids can learn some skills that can inspire them into choosing a career.

I’d also like to see more Charter Schools and school choice.

Of course, it also starts with parents. “It takes a village”… but it depends on what kind of village it is. Kids without proper guidance can turn to gangs to find a sense of belonging and purpose. That needs to change and it starts at home.

[DMK]

@Roxiebelle

Change should start in the schools

Schools shouldn’t take the place of parents. IMO, that is part of the problem.

[WuWei]

Are school children the problem?

[DMK]

@WuWei

So far it seems that most of the ideas are directed at the school system.

School should be for education. Reading, writing and arithmetic.

Parents should prepare their children for the world to become productive adults in conjunction with what children learn in school.

[SixFoot]

We’ll never improve anything so long as schools keep taking away courses that teach children how to provide for themselves (Home Ec, Civics, Shop, AP Science, etc.).

Notice how these libs want to “improve” schools by turning them deeper into indoctrinating, kid-drugging halls of obedience?

Fight the system, my ass.