RixPix Loc: Miami, Florida

You can try to rewrite history, whitewashing away those things we would rather forget. However, the truth must be told and retold.

The Aardvark Is Ready

What are the lies, where is the rewriting and where is the whitewashing? Examples please. And not just a couple anecdotes.

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

There are many thru out history that desire as much and probably more than the ones not treated well here.

RixPix Loc: Miami, Florida

The lies are in every curriculum taught in southern state’s public schools since 1866. The rewriting is in fear of critical race theory.

The Aardvark Is Ready

I was expecting that vague, non responsive, stereotypical answer and you didn't disappoint.
You made a statement so should be able to come up with some current lies, not from 1866. Even if someone is in fear of something, as you say, that is not rewriting something. Rewriting is taking something that's "WRITTEN" and rewriting it. And not teaching something is not rewriting it either. Critical Race Theory is available for anyone that wants to make the effort to read about it.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Thanks for posting as you did. You took the words right out of my mouth. The Civil War was 150 years ago and the white Liberals, in their quest to keep the Black race on the Democratic Plantation STILL tout slavery as if it was just yesterday. Without the Democrats to help Blacks I truly think blacks would be far better off today than they are. It is the Democrats who continue to remind Blacks of their slavery history, their inability do do well WITHOUT the Democrats looking after them LOVINGLY.

Can anyone spell hypocritical Racist BULLSHIT?

Dennis

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

Let me guess, you're also a holocaust denier, and you probably claim to be a Christian. The conditions the slaves of in the south was simply inhumane. But a.white nationalist will never except the truth of that. Their thinking is controlled by their hate.

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/unspeakable-cruelty-former-slaves-tell-their-stories-in-southern-university-online-listings/article_996926ae-579c-11e7-9d36-13d23afca32d.html

The Aardvark Is Ready

FO. Lie-berals like you are the sole reason that civil conversations can not be had here on UHH and elsewhere. How can someone respond to what you said other than with anger. You completely lie.make stuff up and stereotype people. Where in god's fracking name did I deny the horror of slavery, asshole? Don't care if I get banned for calling you that.
Back up your accusation bigmouth. You can't. Just like the OP has not backed up the title of his topic.
Oh and I'm an atheist/agnostic. You would know that if you paid any kind of attention.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Yes certainly inhumane and that is putting it mildly. Truth is I don’t know of anybody in their right mind who would disagree with that.

But AGAIN, that was 150 years ago. Multiple Trillions of dollars have been spent, numerous laws passed to enable Blacks to get ahead, to lift themselves up in society as a race. How’s that working out for the Black race? From what I have seen, not too well. Perhaps if the moronic White Liberals and race baiters would treat the Black race just like every other race it would make a positive difference. Everyone knows you don’t give people incentive to better themselves by GIVING them things. They need to follow the example of every OTHER race in America and put in their own work ethic. Why should blacks work just like everyone else when the Democratic Socialist Party will support them?

Set the Black Race FREE.

Dennis

Watash

I went to southern schools and you, sir, are full of snake shit. The ones I attended didn't teach that.
I did learn that Democrats owned most of the slaves.

The Aardvark Is Ready

The OP seems to be a hit and run poster. Posts his lies and then runs away. He/she also seems to be afflicted with what we derisively call "white saviour complex."

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness
Black students who are forced to study a glossed-over version of US history will inevitably internalise anti-Black racism. Donald Earl Collins

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/13/whitewashing-slavery-in-us-schools-will-teach-students-anti-blackness#:~:text=It%20means%20a%20paternalistic%20and,worldwide%20once%20emancipation%20finally%20occurred.

At a press event in Utah on July 21, GOP presidential contender and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to find the silver lining of American chattel slavery. “Some of the folks … eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” he said, referring to enslaved people.

DeSantis made these utterings while defending the Florida State Board of Education’s new standards for teaching African American history in public schools, which downplay and whitewash the enslavement of Africans in the Americas.

The racist idea that slavery was a positive experience of self-improvement for enslaved Africans is not new. It is the same racist reasoning the United States’ third president, Thomas Jefferson, used 240 years ago in his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia, where he wrote that many enslaved Africans “have been brought up to the handicraft arts” under the tutelage of “the whites”. It is the same reasoning American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglas pushed back on in 1845, when he criticised the myth of the “happy slave”.

The idea that Europeans stole African people from West Africa and then trained them up to be farmhands and blacksmiths is ludicrous beyond measure.

With language like “positive contributions” and “African patriots”, it is trying to veer away from addressing the horrific realities and effects of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and white vigilantism.

Glossing over the brutal history of US slavery will only increase anti-Blackness in the near term by signalling that anything said, written, done, or experienced by Black people in the US matters not and instead deserves erasure and marginalisation.

The racism as exhibited in “anti-woke” curricula and in book bans in Florida and across the US will reinforce anti-Blackness for yet another generation of children.

DeSantis is hardly alone in his attacks, for which there has been much precedent. There was a brief effort in 2022 to get the Texas State Board of Education to call slavery the “involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times” in the state’s social studies curriculum for public schools, an effort the board rejected.

A year earlier, the state passed legislation banning schools from teaching any materials that may cause an individual to “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race or sex”. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who signed it into law, said at that time that more needed to be done to “abolish” CRT.

" ... the 1954 Brown v Board of Education case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that state-sanctioned apartheid in schools was unconstitutional. ..."

They recognised that anti-Blackness in US education was systemic and often excluded Black ideas, Black authors, and Black experiences.

In this context, any curriculum that emphasises that slavery existed elsewhere or that some enslaved Black folk learned a trade is denying their students the opportunity to think critically about their past, present, and future. This kind of education and the racist rhetoric that supports it insinuate that the truth of the Black past does not matter, that their education and full development as human beings in a multiracial society does not matter.


Donald Earl Collins

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

BS!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

👍👍👍

Hopefully you learned a great many Blacks ALSO owned, bought and sold slaves as well. Of course this is the HUGE dirty little secret the Left doesn’t want taught in schools. Looks pretty bad trying to achieve bullshit reparations from blacks whose ancestors were slavers. The lying always corrupt Left only likes stories where Whitey is the villain. That would be Conservative Whitey.

Dennis