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JeaneRaye

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14. Our textbooks and education kept other secrets, too.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2020, 03:18 PM

Jun 2020

My education was lacking in true black history. I had never heard of Juneteenth until about a year ago. Never heard about the Tulsa Massacre until recently. Never heard about Rosewood until recently. It was sadly lacking in many other things that this country has done that weren't so pretty. I had also never heard about Japanese internment camps until I read a book in the '90's, called "Snow Falling on Cedars". I graduated from high school in 1971 and had no idea how ugly much of American history has been.

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Whitewashed and erased': There's a reason Juneteenth isn't taught in schools, educators say [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP

The propaganda surrounding the myth of the "happy slave" isn't a new one Docreed2003 Jun 2020 #1

The "happy slave" mythology is even older than that. thucythucy Jun 2020 #4

I've read that Gone With The Wind was one of those novels, jb5150 Jun 2020 #8

It's gawd awful wryter2000 Jun 2020 #16

"Gone With the Wind" (the novel) is 1920s or 30s. thucythucy Jun 2020 #29

At least one of the characters in GWTW Retrograde Jun 2020 #30

+1, uponit7771 Jun 2020 #7

It isn't just the Texas Board of Education. Lonestarblue Jun 2020 #12

when the school textbook board of kansas chooses textbooks , so goes the rest of AllaN01Bear Jun 2020 #22

Let's use just one course as an example for publishers. Lonestarblue Jun 2020 #25

+1 For a while at historic sites and plantations appalachiablue Jun 2020 #34

You could say some of the slaves were literally family Frances Jun 2020 #2

Sally Hemings wryter2000 Jun 2020 #19

Yup, and by all accounts they looked very much alike obamanut2012 Jun 2020 #26

Growing up i never heard of Juneteenth in school k-12th grade even in college ace3csusm Jun 2020 #3

I only learned of it as an adult wryter2000 Jun 2020 #18

I was never taught it in class... Alacritous Crier Jun 2020 #5

Was a time, most all textbooks came from Texas Brother Buzz Jun 2020 #6

I learned about it because the community celebration was in the park across the street caraher Jun 2020 #9

I had no idea what Juneteenth meant lillypaddle Jun 2020 #10

It's a highly important subject and teaching should be more accurate and reality based bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #11

I learned about it in 1971 or 1972. murielm99 Jun 2020 #13

Our textbooks and education kept other secrets, too. JeaneRaye Jun 2020 #14

Tulsa was told to me by a cowork it seem surreal had to do own research ace3csusm Jun 2020 #21

"Roots" needs to be on tv again, IMO, for starters. Ilsa Jun 2020 #15

Good idea ashredux Jun 2020 #17

I remember watching it on TV when i was a kid ace3csusm Jun 2020 #20

I always thought it was Aeshululian comedy that........ jaxexpat Jun 2020 #23

Many years ago my wife spent a weekend in Charleston, SC. bluescribbler Jun 2020 #24

All kids should read The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass MH1 Jun 2020 #27

July 4th Exercise - let's see if anyone at M$Greedia reads this in full malaise Jun 2020 #28

The more things change ... Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #31

K + R Raastan Jun 2020 #33

This is proof that Social Studies in this country often whitewashes history JonLP24 Jun 2020 #32