Cuba on deck

[BDKJMU]

Nope, ignoring the truth is one thing I'm good at

Kids in school need to hear the truth

I agree. White people oppressed black people (slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc.) for centuries. Just because it hurts the feelings of some fragile snowflakes doesn't mean it didn't happen and shouldn't be taught. Kids need to hear the truth - it did and should.

And Africans enslaved white people for centuries (see Barbary Slave Trade and Muslim enslavement of Europeans) And black people oppressed other black people for millennia. Without Africans capturing other Africans and selling them to European slave traders there would have been no Atlantic slave trade. Every race on earth practiced slavers for centuries.

[UNI88]

I agree. White people oppressed black people (slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc.) for centuries. Just because it hurts the feelings of some fragile snowflakes doesn't mean it didn't happen and shouldn't be taught. Kids need to hear the truth - it did and should.

And Africans enslaved white people for centuries (see Barbary Slave Trade and Muslim enslavement of Europeans) And black people oppressed other black people for millennia. Without Africans capturing other Africans and selling them to European slave traders there would have been no Atlantic slave trade. Every race on earth practiced slavers for centuries.

I don't disagree. Where I disagree is in not teaching the truth because it hurts the tender feelings of easily triggered snowflakes.

[Caribbean Hen]

Nope, ignoring the truth is one thing I'm good at

Kids in school need to hear the truth

I agree. White people oppressed black people (slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc.) for centuries. Just because it hurts the feelings of some fragile snowflakes doesn't mean it didn't happen and shouldn't be taught. Kids need to hear the truth - it did and should.

Teach it all

But don’t initiate hate

[UNI88]

I agree. White people oppressed black people (slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc.) for centuries. Just because it hurts the feelings of some fragile snowflakes doesn't mean it didn't happen and shouldn't be taught. Kids need to hear the truth - it did and should.

Teach it all

But don’t initiate hate

Not initiating hate would require trump and MAQA to stop calling anyone who doesn't bend the knee - unhinged, radical, extremist, commies, socialists, etc.

[UNI88]

MAQA has taught me that we aren't supposed to tell the truth when teaching history if it might hurt someone's feelings.

Nope, ignoring the truth is one thing I'm good at

Kids in school need to hear the truth

They aren't hearing the truth in tennesseestan ...

Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law

“As a district, we recognize the immense cultural and historical significance of Alex Haley’s Roots to our nation, to Tennessee, and particularly to the county seat of Knoxville,” Harrington said in a statement. “The decision made to remove Roots from school libraries is in no way a commentary on the literary or cultural value of the novel, but the result of adherence to state law.”

She said Roots had recently been elevated to the district’s review committee for consideration over a passage in the novel’s 84th chapter, which it determined was not “age appropriate” under Tennessee law. “Broader themes or historical significance of a work as a whole is not a consideration under the law,” Harrington added.