Black History Month is A Complete Fucking Joke!!!
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Yo, Heresy which books do you have on Nat Turner? he is the closest thing I ever had to a hero in my life. In high school I had "The Confession of Nat Turner" confiscated from me by my teacher. White folks in Virginia are still paranoid about the man. But they got they revenge like usual, guess what they built in South Hampton County(where Nat and crew raised up)? They built a big ass prison that they love sending young black males with time to. No bullshit about 20% of my friends and family been there, and its only one prison. They laughing hard at us I tell you.
Yea, maybe euro history 'used' to dominate...but watch any forward thinking school curriculum...etc...articles have been written about the fact that people in trying to correct the lapse in history and education towards a european mindset so far that history is actually considered preposterous to the other extreme on some levels
yeah, i just jumped the gun. i read the 1st post and just had to speak my mind. then i read the rest and saw what u put. my bad. but damn it ya'll!! we all human!! i dont give a flying fuck if a black owns a tv station, i dont give a fuck if a filipino guy did. as long as im gettin my regulary scheduled broadcast, im good. we all bleed red, and we share this earth. who gives a rats ass if a certain race controls things? as long as we work together andget get the stuff we all need
Thank you to everyone for the links and the book suggestions. I dont think that blacc history month is a joke. My neice is 7 years old and she just told me every thing she learned. Granted it was not much but it WAS more then she knew a week ago. I do not have enuff knowledge on the subject to teach her or any of the youngins in my family so i think what she was taught in school was great. I try my best with her to show the young ones in my family by my example. They see their uncle Wedo with blacc friends, hispanic friends ect... It is hard for some of them because they just moved to my town from Texas and they already have alot of racist tendencies. I had to sit those ones down and talk to them and let them know that wasent acceptable. So for me it's nice to have the schools halfway baccing me up not to mention the different comercials on T.V and things of that nature. Could anyone suggest any book titles on the subject geared towards children?
Man... I dunno bout all you but my schools actually weren't that bad. Middle school we went over all kinds of world history, not incredibly detailed tho cuz you only have so much time in a year. Then when I got into high school my history teachers were trash untill senior year in Government class. We went over all the crazy CIA operations in other countries and shit. Talked about the para military training camps for terrorist in other countries mainly in the latin america region. We spent like 2 weeks alone on the kenedy assasination.
But I think its granted that you don't REALLY learn anything untill you get to college. Shit ain't sugarcoated for you there....
But I think its granted that you don't REALLY learn anything untill you get to college. Shit ain't sugarcoated for you there....
My schools were ok, but a majority of the teachers were young and fresh out of college. Not a bad thing really, but they coulda been more knowledgeful on many of the things they were instructing. They also lacked the experience. Now when your students have more experiences in racism and other issues than you do, it should be understandable why they are less likely to turn to you for advice. And they taught mainly European history throughout the entire school year. The only time black history would even come into the picture is in February (the shortest month of the year and one of the coldest). And instead of teaching it, they assigned it as a 'class project' or 'extra credit', which pissed me off many times. And I spoke my mind about it.
But those experiences came earlier and I was always taught If you're hungry for knowledge, start young, soak it up quick and on your own. Dont depend on them to feed it to you or your brain will die from starvation. I learned more from my own personal reading and studies than I did in school.
@Snubnoze
That aint true about not learning anything until you get to college cuz honestly, my first two years of college were easier than my first two years of high school. At some points you're mainly getting a review of the shit you did in high school, just a lil memory test. lol
And those chapters you didnt go through in high school WILL be in your college books. And what you learn in high school helps you out more than you know, some of my old high school tests/papers/notes were good feed to keep me on toes if my memory slacked up a bit.
Writing 10 to 20 page papers on topics I researched on in high school and political issues that interest me dont arouse my intellect, its just basically opinionative papers with blended facts. And thats mainly all you get served at you. The rest are open doors and if you can soak up information that you read through one good time, without having to go back over it again and again, take good notes and have a good memory, the exams aint shit.
Well, thats just MY opinion.
But those experiences came earlier and I was always taught If you're hungry for knowledge, start young, soak it up quick and on your own. Dont depend on them to feed it to you or your brain will die from starvation. I learned more from my own personal reading and studies than I did in school.
@Snubnoze
That aint true about not learning anything until you get to college cuz honestly, my first two years of college were easier than my first two years of high school. At some points you're mainly getting a review of the shit you did in high school, just a lil memory test. lol
And those chapters you didnt go through in high school WILL be in your college books. And what you learn in high school helps you out more than you know, some of my old high school tests/papers/notes were good feed to keep me on toes if my memory slacked up a bit.
Writing 10 to 20 page papers on topics I researched on in high school and political issues that interest me dont arouse my intellect, its just basically opinionative papers with blended facts. And thats mainly all you get served at you. The rest are open doors and if you can soak up information that you read through one good time, without having to go back over it again and again, take good notes and have a good memory, the exams aint shit.
Well, thats just MY opinion.