Who else didn’t know about Tulsa Massacre?
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Anybody who came up in the American public education system. Don't know about Rosewood or Nat Turner either.
American History Sucks, like the The Rosewood massacre
Rosewood massacre - Wikipedia
I miss TV series like Sam Waterston’s I’ll Fly Away
Talked about race relations back in the day, and the fight for equality, justice and fairness in America
Talked about race relations back in the day, and the fight for equality, justice and fairness in America
In no way, shape, or form would I expect you to know obscure (and deliberately obscured) details about the history of another country.
The fact that you're interested speaks well of you.
This needs to be taught. It's part of our history. The brutality toward non-Whites in America is real, and understanding it is necessary to understand why people see things different ways. Just like city folk and farm folk tend to see things different ways and have different priorities.
It does NOT demand "reparations." It happened. It was wrong. But handouts weaken the recipient far more than the donor.
Absolute, detailed equality, enforced by criminal sanctions (currently racial discrimination is a civil matter) is the cure for past ills.
It does NOT demand "reparations." It happened. It was wrong. But handouts weaken the recipient far more than the donor.
Absolute, detailed equality, enforced by criminal sanctions (currently racial discrimination is a civil matter) is the cure for past ills.
There was a movie made about The Rosewood massacre, but I can’t find it to post.
There was a movie made about The Rosewood massacre, but I can’t find it to post.
Looks to have some enhanced historical rewrites.
Sadly those who think history in the US, about the US, should be taught, also think it's all CRT, which is the push to ensure things LIKE Tulsa are never taught.
Or the Trail of Tears.
Only the bits where America comes out as Number 1 does it matter.
It's a common theme. For decades or centuries, Britain and Australia also were simply silent about hunting Aborigines for sport. Canada's done a much better job than the States in owning up to its past, and the other American countries are a mixed bag.
It's understandable. You want to instill pride and patriotism in your kids, and the Western way, for all its flaws, I'll take over other ways any old day. But we should integrate the bad parts into education as the kids get a little older, to equip them to decide, and maybe spark some "never again" feelings (the Germans have done an excellent job of that, especially the former West Germany). That way, the young folk aren't stunned and feeling betrayed when they stumble on some of these things later.
What drives me nuts is pro-non-White discrimination, especially in the case of Natives. We were not all spiritually-awake, peaceful, loving children of Mother Earth and Father Sky in off-the-shoulder dresses from top designers. We kept slaves. We made war. We did some horrendous things to the environment. With 20% of the world's population for 15,000 years, we tried every political and religious system you could imagine. Insofar as the evil we did was limited, it was limited by technology, not by morality.
Doesn't make what the Europeans did to us any less horrific. But angelifying us dehumanizes us just the same as demonizing us does. And real simple fact. . . if you suddenly carved out a big chunk of land and dumped us all on it without tools, the huge majority of us would die pretty damn quick. Only the hard-core traditionalists and the natural-born survivors would make it.
Lets not get started on Chinese slavery during the 1800’s
What’s truly sad, humanity hasn’t changed much, there are still islands today breeding slaves for modern day 2022 slave labor and sex