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    MajorBurnBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 1:45pm

    Have they tried stepping on the students?

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      The Intersectional Feminist part dosMajorBurn
      2/02/18 1:58pm

      LOL. Why are you so messy?

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      A-DotMajorBurn
      2/02/18 1:59pm

      staaaahp. I almost spit my drink out but these juice generation teas are not to be wasted!

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    PaulMooneysTongueBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 1:58pm

    Well they aren’t being taught about Irish slavery either. —Incoming trolls.

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      ARP2PaulMooneysTongue
      2/02/18 2:21pm

      Whataboutism and false equivalency at its finest.

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      Sassinak11PaulMooneysTongue
      2/02/18 2:31pm

      Personally speaking, if ALL the dark history of the US was taught, then people would have a LOT more respect for others.. but basically its been swept under the rug, leaving the younger generation asking “well, why the hell should we do anything about X, the world is perfect” when that’s anything but the truth.

      The US is and has always been about hypocrisy.. it excels at moving the goal posts, lying, and hiding its dark/dirty past while attempting to point the finger at others that are doing the EXACT SAME SHIT as the US (both former and present).

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    The Intersectional Feminist part dosBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:06pm

    1) This is shameful.

    2) This is exactly why I plan on teaching my kids American history and refuse to have them just depend on the teacher. I will call out bullshit when I see it.

    3) “Tax protests”? What in the absolute fuck? Are they confusing the Civil War with the Revolutionary War?

    4) This is what happens when history is written by those who have “won.” They control the narrative, and it must be fought with every last breath.

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      pat34usThe Intersectional Feminist part dos
      2/02/18 2:19pm

      3) “Tax protests”? What in the absolute fuck? Are they confusing the Civil War with the Revolutionary War?

      That is actually a really good theory, maybe the school just glossed over the Civil War.

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      no thankspat34us
      2/02/18 2:51pm

      They must have glossed over the Revolutionary War, slavery AND the Civil War.

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    pat34usBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:18pm

    More than half (58 percent) of teachers surveyed also pointed out that textbooks on the subject were inadequate.

    Because politicians decide who writes the books, not sure when this started but it has been going on for a long time. History is decided by the state you live in, not what actually happened.

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      ARP2pat34us
      2/02/18 2:20pm

      And because of the size of Texas, they have an outsized influence on textbook contents. Over the past few years they’ve been rewriting history to downplay slavery and the New Deal, and prop up Reagan,

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      ARP2pat34us
      2/02/18 2:20pm

      And because of the size of Texas, they have an outsized influence on textbook contents. Over the past few years they’ve been rewriting history to downplay slavery and the New Deal, and prop up Reagan,

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    Heart-of-BoudicaBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:14pm

    Even in AP history (in a school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for chrissakes) I got the states’ rights garbage & was caught that slavery-as-cause was Union basically grafted-on propaganda adopted after the war began to keep Britain out of the conflict. I did ask “states’ rights to do what?” & was told that was beside the point. Not surprising since this particular teacher found some way to make fun of Catholics literally every day. (Too few black folk & Jews in our school, so I guess we were next in line.)

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      BlackMage2030Heart-of-Boudica
      2/02/18 3:26pm

      Yeah, my AP US History class pretty much deep dove in part because she was doing her thesis on Civil War correspondence as it related to historical record. She was quick to mention the state’s rights line was ‘to own slaves and spread it to ensure continuation’ and went in on how Great Britain was being courted by the South to keep the cotton going for their industries after they were getting static from the north. Only part that got weak sauce to me was the failures of Reconstruction to maintain momentum due to eroded support from the US gov’t. Granted, school was getting federal money for supporting a military base so I don’t want to know how that shit would’ve been without that influence

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      dadavebombHeart-of-Boudica
      2/02/18 5:03pm

      States rights to choose their own laws and regulations. Obviously slavery was the main one, but still.

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    ReturnOfTheMingBreanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:33pm

    When I first started teaching (college), I was talking one day about how institutions and nations build their wealth upon the suffering of others - I was literally talking about environmental stuff, and I said something offhand about how environmental racism may not be as codified as slavery (sometimes it is, I know), but it’s still allowing wealth to be built on human atrocities.

    In their daily response cards, a few of the students were literally denying that slavery was bad. One of them even wrote, “I don’t get how everyone constantly says that slaves all had it bad, all the time. I’m sure they didn’t all get beaten, for example. I bet some of them were happy to have the work.” This was at a major state university that typically only takes the top 10% of high school graduates.

    It was at that moment (like 15 years ago) that I realized I had way more work to do than I originally thought. And I still do. It’s sad.

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      ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbsReturnOfTheMing
      2/02/18 2:39pm

      I assume you were teaching at a school in the USA, not the UAE too. :(

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      Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)ReturnOfTheMing
      2/02/18 3:06pm

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    Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)Breanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:16pm

    And this is how we raise a generation of gray commenters who think white privilege is imaginary, don’t understand what systemic racism is, and how it feeds into the wealth gap, education gap, and employment gap.

    Most of us only get taught about The Civil War, Jim Crow, and MLK in school. Oh, and now they probably spend a day on Obama too, but that’s it. Its only when you get older and start asking questions on your own that you learn how much you still don’t know.

    It might help to have more black and minority teachers. White people get uncomfortable talking about things that show them in a negative light, so between that and the fact that they’re not as personally invested in this topic, I can easily see them glossing over details just to get through the lesson.

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    cdwag14Breanna Edwards
    2/02/18 2:40pm

    This is basically white people can’t be bad taken to a whole new level. Just Allison Williams said that white people kept asking her about her character in Get Out being hypnotized, because she had to be good right? I mean white people aren’t evil people who used and abused people of color throughout history right? I mean the slave owner was trying to make them better people right? This disease has pretty much convinced white people that no matter how much evidence shows it to be true, they always must be seen as good. Pretty soon they’ll be teaching kids that the worst thing to happen to those “uppity coloreds” was slavery’s end.

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    BlackMage2030Breanna Edwards
    2/02/18 3:05pm

    Again: region-by-region forums with K-12 educators and some scholars to draft up plans for teaching slavery and its impact on the world and this country in age-appropriate ways without stepping on people or trying to reenact auctions, or asking fucking 9-year-olds to weigh the pros and cons of the institution in 4th grade sentences... if we had a government that gave half a shit they could fund a chunk of it, remove the ‘state’s rights’ bullshit the apologistas spew for the aim of maybe curbing the shit that inspire the nationalist/supremacists out there who wind up murdering people.

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    jystadBreanna Edwards
    2/03/18 4:35pm

    I distinctly recall how much I disliked my AP US History class in high school. Aside from one Chinese girl, and one Indian girl, I was the next closest thing to a minority in that class, as I am black/white. The teacher was most certainly an overweight Gomer Pyle, and he was most certainly a racist. He would blithely demur whenever I fact checked anything related to slavery, the civil war, or anything recent going on in the news. He cautioned that if I actually gave CORRECT answers on the AP US History exam like I gave in class that I would not pass the exam. Much to his chagrin, I aced the exam, and collected that college credit well before even stepping foot in undergrad.

    At this time, George W. Bush was running for re-election, and I was not having ANY of that. I don’t believe the term fake news was in use then, but the sheer amount of fake news that was pumped into my classes then was absurd. Most of the students just nodded, and questioned nothing. Most of them hardly left a ten-mile radius from where we grew up in Washington State, they have 2.5 kids, and are unhappily married there. Bleh! Washington is not as “blue” as most people would have you believe, and I am so glad that I have been in New York the last decade.

    We need to do so much better as far as educating the young ones, because Texas would LOVE to keep pumping out revisionist history books to classes across the country. Minimizing slavery when teaching US history is a complete slap in the face to anyone that is STILL impacted by the ripple effects of slavery today.

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