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Black History Month in schools: The undeniable truth
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:03 am
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:03 am
Kids assigned BHM projects either think
"They get their own special month; they must be superior"
-or-
"We have to do this for those poor blacks; they must be inferior"
Bad stuff either way.
"They get their own special month; they must be superior"
-or-
"We have to do this for those poor blacks; they must be inferior"
Bad stuff either way.
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Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:04 am to RidiculousHype
Indoctrination
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:04 am to RidiculousHype
Or “this shite is easy compared to real work.”
Which bites them in the arse when real work starts again in March.
Which bites them in the arse when real work starts again in March.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:07 am to teke184
When the time comes to study on Stacey Abrams, kids are really gonna miss good people like George Washington Carver.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:08 am to RidiculousHype
The undeniable truth is having a month or day for anything other than July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and maybe a few other holidays sprinkled in is pretty dumb. The virtue signal ones are the worst though. I was trying to watch HBOmax last night and they had something akin to “their history is our history” splattered everywhere. It’s just annoying.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:09 am to RidiculousHype
I don't have a problem with it. Truth is there are some great African American stories that did not make it into the history books simply because of their color. I love the old war stories especially. Read a book about Richard Etheridge recently (first black keeper of a life saving station).
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:11 am to TimeOutdoors
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I don't have a problem with it.
Much like everything else going on right now this is the appropriate response to this in a vacuum. The trouble is the distortion some people do to suit their agenda.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:11 am to navy
They’ll be using books by Professor Milton K Shabazz about how Jif Armstrong and Skippy Williams stole the recipe for peanut butter while Carver died penniless and insane trying to play a phonograph record with a peanut.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:11 am to RidiculousHype
At least white people still have Father’s Day 
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:15 am to td01241
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Much like everything else going on right now
You do realize that since 1976 every President has designated February as Black History Month. This is not something new.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:16 am to TimeOutdoors
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Truth is there are some great African American stories that did not make it into the history books
In that case, include more of those stories in the regular curriculum.
The special month thing is probably the worst way to go about it, if racial harmony is indeed the end goal.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:16 am to RidiculousHype
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Black History Month in schools
Let's be honest here. We have been celebrating Black History Month since Ford instituted in in 1976. That's coming up on 50 years. The goal at the time was to help fill in the gaps that left out important contributions black people had made to history. and since we all know "the winners" write history, there was probably a laudable goal there at the beginning. I sincerely believe that.
But like any of these plans, there ought to have been an end game. After a certain point, we should have learned whatever lessons there were to be learned, added whatever black history which had been left out of the basic curriculum, and simply called it HISTORY, and done away with the special month.
Instead, we've simply doubled down on it every year as if we have not folded in much of this into regular history while maintaining a special month to go even further. And given it's been wall-to-wall black issues for nearly a year now, it's nearly impossible to even differentiate between a regular month and black history month. All the streaming services have set aside "Black Voices" movies for months now, so it was hardly even noticeable when they turned it up tp 11 a few days ago.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:17 am to GeauxTigerTM
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Let's be honest here. We have been celebrating Black History Month since Ford instituted in in 1976. That's coming up on 50 years. The goal at the time was to help fill in the gaps that left out important contributions black people had made to history. and since we all know "the winners" write history, there was probably a laudable goal there at the beginning. I sincerely believe that.
But like any of these plans, there ought to have been an end game. After a certain point, we should have learned whatever lessons there were to be learned, added whatever black history which had been left out of the basic curriculum, and simply called it HISTORY, and done away with the special month.
Instead, we've simply doubled down on it every year as if we have not folded in much of this into regular history while maintaining a special month to go even further. And given it's been wall-to-wall black issues for nearly a year now, it's nearly impossible to even differentiate between a regular month and black history month. All the streaming services have set aside "Black Voices" movies for months now, so it was hardly even noticeable when they turned it up tp 11 a few days ago.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:19 am to RidiculousHype
The only way to avoid this is to homeschool.
My kid studied the Tuskegee Airmen. IMO they are individuals who deserve respect. They lived and worked at a time of segregation.
Unlike today, where "mostly peaceful" protests have become the norm.
My kid studied the Tuskegee Airmen. IMO they are individuals who deserve respect. They lived and worked at a time of segregation.
Unlike today, where "mostly peaceful" protests have become the norm.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:19 am to TimeOutdoors
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You do realize that since 1976 every President has designated February as Black History Month. This is not something new.
So it is an old stupid tradition.
Since when do we give a shite about something because it has been done a long time?
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:22 am to gthog61
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Since when do we give a shite about something because it has been done a long time?
Um... since the beginning of history?
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:25 am to RidiculousHype
“Victim state of mind”
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:32 am to RidiculousHype
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Black History Month in schools: The undeniable truth
Yea I dont teach about that shite. I teach world history and I tell my students every year that the world doesn't give a shite about the U.S. and its civil rights issues. I am usually teaching about the rise of Nazi Germany during this time as well
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:33 am to TimeOutdoors
quote:There are. And they should be taught as part of our collective history, not segregated to a single month.
Truth is there are some great African American stories that did not make it into the history books simply because of their color.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 11:33 am to RidiculousHype
It definitely highlights one group as its own thing.
How does this not promote the idea of segregation at some level??
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