The War Over Teaching America’s Racist History in Schools.

@Real Music,

To shorten everything I wrote. You can live in fear. "Watermelon Man" already addressed the "discrimination" problem at it's root. Which is "disallowing people to gain income via normal means at the lowest level"
Just make an entire section of "American History" around "Watermelonman". If you have not seen that film then everybody should watch it. It is one of the most direct on par films out there.

That solves the "How do we integrate racism in United States" and should make a decent lesson plan. That is the truth.

Your an educated person and nobody wants to hire you.
Your an educated person, you have skills, nobody wants to hire you.
Your an educated man, your not weak, you might not be all that, but nobody wants to hire you. No matter how polite you dress or proceed in life.
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Sigh.................

That guy basically repost what other peoples post in order to make himself look more valuable. He is playing the "Black-Community" ( which is racist within itself ) card. It is like a person of Jewish faith who acts like they are a finite expert and dodges important topics. I will admit some of his reports are alarming and interesting but not at the level of RT or TYT

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Lets be frank. We have History in schools, we are not going to be taught about every history from every nation and "their specific point of view".
Educational professionals ( Teachers like the wife of the current US President ) are basically short-handing for parents who do not have the time ( or mental capacity ) in order to push their children across grades K-12.

It is like in North Korea ( which I lose respect for after murder of the execution of the Musician conductor for a next to nothing comment )
in order to hold a drivers license yo have to be able to tear down a car
and put it back together piece by piece, where in the United States you have to do a short road-test.

In a correct mindset your/my parents need to be educated with the level of a person with a masters in education in order to teach your children and past those K-12 examinations.

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US History we have to talk about the "Tri-angle Trade" "Emaciation Proclamation", "Jim-Crow", "Segregation", "The Summer of Love", Further-more "Raising of Standards", and "Discrimination" in the job-market. AKA "You can not make an omlet without breaking a few eggs".
What color are eggs most of the time, when you close your eyes?
However

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What I find stupid is that people seem to take "American culture" and become Snow-ball, cry-babies, who are unable to tell the difference because of confusion from marketable society ( media ). In the past I would say the media industry has done tremendous damage.

With the lack of inclusion of non-European performers within those industries, primary because of media brainwashing ( public opinion / Propaganda ). Like the tale of the first Latino rock-bands, Marketing LGBT via the Electronica-scene, within respect and regard. Then over-all discrimination just because of mentalities that have been pre-programmed and burnt ( tramp-stamped/cattle branded ) into the minds of many.

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That being said discrimination as with "Watermelon man" and the lack of employment. What happens when those students parents come home and have to say "The interviewer called me a bank-robber" or " They made indirect threats to me after being a high paying customer." or "They was talkative with me when I was a customer from when I was young man but now I ask about employment they walk away from quietly". You quickly realize that somebody has "marked you for death" and does not want to see you have success. Your surrounded by a bunch of wolves and make your home within their den. Your being told "Time To Leave" by a person who is a racist coward, without saying TTL. The ultimate reality is that you have people from states who gets a hard on US-History, but not the high of the knowledge itself but the fact that they "represent the man", in some form or another v. a person who has or wants little or nothing to do with the nation at all. Just work like a dog and leave for another world to flash their cash and drop-dead being selfish to their own kin, and or so called loved-ones, making the excuse of "equality" or "all is fair in love and war" or "every man( etc ) for himself". The reality is with this dopamine of "me white man you insignificant other" is what is driving people.

Again it is confusing in order to brainwash people, a bigger problem when you are limited to being a human robot( forced labor ) and people claiming equality is education, when in reality "those who are most educated are easier to control". Brainwashed, Traumatized, Alienated, and unable to live any kind of lives outside of fear itself. Ignoring the truth that "The only thing to fear is fear itself" and feeding off the manipulated examples generated in order to make the propaganda into truth.

Freedom is the ability to say 1 + 1 = 2.
Fear makes it a thought-crime to say 1 + 1 = 2.

Then without fear, there is appropriateness, dress-codes, body-language,
and other little tid-bits that communicates ideas about ones-self to the world.

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@PoliteMight,

Your post is so incredibly disjointed that I doubt anyone here will know what to make of it.

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THE WAR ON HISTORY IS A WAR ON DEMOCRACY
Submitted by Theresa Riley on July 21, 2021 - 1:22pm

Excerpted from The New York Times' Magazine: The War on History Is a War on Democracy

By Timothy Snyder

A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe.

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University and the author of histories of political atrocity such as “Bloodlands” and “Black Earth.” His most recent book is “Our Malady.” In his recent essay, he lays out the history of "a growing international body of what are called 'memory laws': government actions designed to guide public interpretation of the past," that are cause for concern.

Memory laws started out as a noble idea and "generally [were] designed to protect the truth about victim groups. ...The most important example, passed in West Germany in 1985, criminalized Holocaust denial. Perhaps unsurprisingly, other countries followed that precedent, and banned the denial of other historical atrocities."

"DEMOCRACY REQUIRES INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT CRITICAL HISTORY. IT THRIVES IN A SPIRIT OF SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-CORRECTION."

However, beginning a little over a decade ago, Snyder writes, Russia "turned the original logic of memory laws upside down. It is not the facts about the vulnerable but the feelings of the powerful that are to be protected."

"[In 2009, President] Medvedev established the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests, a panel of politicians, military officials and state-approved historians ostensibly tasked with defending the official history of the Soviet Union’s role in World War II. It did little in practice, but it did establish an important principle: that history was what served Russia’s national interests, and that all else was revisionism."

After that commission, a number of laws have been passed that make it a crime to acknowledge history that addresses some Russian actions in World War II. Snyder chronicles instances in which the state has prosecuted Russian citizens, including one "who mentioned in a social media post that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union both invaded Poland."

And this spring, he writes, "memory laws arrived in America."

"Republican state legislators proposed dozens of bills designed to guide and control American understanding of the past. As of this writing, five states (Idaho, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma) have passed laws that direct and restrict discussions of history in classrooms. The Department of Education of a sixth (Florida) has passed guidelines with the same effect. Another 12 state legislatures are still considering memory laws.

The particulars of these laws vary. The Idaho law is the most Kafkaesque in its censorship: It affirms freedom of speech and then bans divisive speech. The Iowa law executes the same totalitarian pirouette. The Tennessee and Texas laws go furthest in specifying what teachers may and may not say. In Tennessee teachers must not teach that the rule of law is “a series of power relationships and struggles among racial or other groups.” Nor may they deny the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, words that Thomas Jefferson presumably never intended to be part of an American censorship law. The Idaho law mentions Critical Race Theory; the directive from the Florida school board bans it in classrooms. The Texas law forbids teachers from requiring students to understand the 1619 Project. It is a perverse goal: Teachers succeed if students do not understand something."

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What? Are we not learning american history in school? When I went to school everyone learnt about america in school. Now everyone lives in america!

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I think schools should teach more inclusive history, all of our history including the bad history, of which we have a lot of and can't be erased by censorship. From what I understand, CRT is a part of our country's past and present. We also need to understand more about Indian history, the Japanese in the occupational camps after Pearl Harbor and even the way our government reacted towards Muslims after 9/11. I am sure there are a lot of groups of people of different races who have been discarded in our history books who should have been and still can be included, and it would be a benefit.

Another important aspect of this who whole issue which is really concerning me is the fascist way these people and republican governments are taking away our freedom of speech and don't realize it; or don't seem to realize it.

When you deny books because you don't like the message it sends, that is taking away someone rights to free expression of speech. Maybe your family don't agree morally with trans people or gay people, but that does not mean the next family (parent's rights) believe the same way and by banning books you are favoring one parent's rights over another parent's rights. (I am trying to word it right.) Now, if it is simply inappropriate with under aged children in a sexualized way, that is a different issue than a book about two parents of the same sex raising a child or a child of minority background writing of his/her experiences or similar to those kinds of subjects.

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@revelette1,

The whole purpose of grades K-12 is to prepare students for the adult world and since WW2 to push to compete with other nations. The biggest problem with education is the "method of education chosen". Usually this is judged by performances world wide rather then locally. If I had the same education my father had and was able to walk out into the world with my associates, and make $100,000 a year I would be a happy camper right now. But they force us to take up classes we have nothing to do with our majors.

An echo of "This is not what how I viewed college to be like" was basically the set tone of all my peers. The most fun I had in college was associating with theater people rather then the actual major I wanted.

Another issue is that many schools out there do not teach what is needed. Going to college all I discovered was a bunch of professors who would rather hit-boots with there students then actually influence them to function in the business of their studies. Everybody is within depression. It is like that "Dilbert" cartoon. Dilbert in real life would probably be no different then that guy who locked up his daughter in the basement of their home and forced her to have multiple children for him.

@vikkor

Well if you actually try to read the post outloud to yourself you would get it. What is there not to get.

Go see "WaterMelon Man".

Discrimination begins with the job market. That is why I had to grow up with tons of people of African-decent picking on me, telling me bs, like "He is going to be our boss one day" or making claims that "he said the N-word" to basically what Terry A. Davis talks about during his time. "You $#@$#@$ think you work hard, how much you think I work" -Terry A. Davis. I guess what is wrong with me is that I never gave into the mentality of just taking whatever job, and having intercourse with whatever woman, and then go insane from the fact I am unable to enjoy my own nation for what it really stands for or what is. Because that is the horror of being "smart" even if your Academically intelligent. I do not believe in charity at all, but I believe that if people could just use the "trust-system" instead of thinking the possible worst of people.

Again Discrimination begins with the job market

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@Real Music,

ORLANDO (The Borowitz Report)—Ron DeSantis has unveiled an ambitious plan to raze Disney World and replace it with a “Dilbert”-themed attraction.

The new theme park, tentatively called Dilbert World, will attract “millions of Americans deprived of their favorite comic strip by the left-wing media Reich,” the Florida governor said.

Calling the new tourist destination “a woke-free zone,” DeSantis promised, “Parents who go to Dilbert World can rest assured that their children will not be exposed to the vile multicultural propaganda that it’s a small world, after all.”

DeSantis was vague about what kind of rides might be featured in Dilbert World, saying only that “they will probably involve cubicles

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@coluber2001,

Anybody but DeSantis and I would call this fake news.

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@roger,

It's Borowitz, satire.

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@coluber2001,

Thank you

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@revelette1,

Quote:

Another important aspect of this who whole issue which is really concerning me is the fascist way these people and republican governments are taking away our freedom of speech and don't realize it; or don't seem to realize it.

1. These MAGA Republicans are very aware of what they are doing.

2. These MAGA Republicans (realize) exactly what they are doing.

3. They simply don't care what you, I , or anyone else thinks about it.

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@revelette1,

All I have heard about recent book bans were that they were basically sexually explicit in imagery and language that children in elementary schools do not need to be influenced by at young ages especially children 10 yrs. old and under. At televised school board meetings, I listened to some of the parents either read graphic excerpts from their libraries’ books or showed pages in books where couples were engaged in graphic sexual acts through cartoon imagery. Personally, I hope children are able to retain their innocence as long as possible and that parents instruct their children about the birds and the bees either when their children are curious or at 11-12 yrs. old when girls typically begin their menstrual cycles, when pregnancies of a child having a child can occur.

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@WendyDarling,

Lies Joseph Goebbels himself would be proud of.

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@WendyDarling,

WendyDarling wrote:

All I have heard about recent book bans were that they were basically sexually explicit in imagery and language that children in elementary schools do not need to be influenced by at young ages especially children 10 yrs. old and under. At televised school board meetings, I listened to some of the parents either read graphic excerpts from their libraries’ books or showed pages in books where couples were engaged in graphic sexual acts through cartoon imagery. Personally, I hope children are able to retain their innocence as long as possible and that parents instruct their children about the birds and the bees either when their children are curious or at 11-12 yrs. old when girls typically begin their menstrual cycles, when pregnancies of a child having a child can occur.

Liar.

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@tsarstepan,

Agreed. It's actually not really about sex, more about slavery and gender identity. They're taking this to the extreme where the slightest mention of anything that could make children feel the slightest bit uncomfortable is out. So, if it's a book about slavery and a parent says it would make their child uncomfortable, it's off the list. Uncomfortable is good... it makes you ask why you feel that way, then discussions can happen.

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@Mame,

Shortly after my mother died, my father showed me a press clipping of a review of a amateur theatre production she was in.

The clipping was from the early Fifties, but what caught my eye was an advert for balls of wool.

One of the colours of wool available was the n word.

When I pointed that out my father got really angry saying I wasn't supposed to read that.

If someone can get that defensive over an advert for wool you can see how they don't want to confront racism in general.

The past is rose tinted, all Jimmy Stewart films, decent white people helping everyone out.

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@izzythepush,

Tsk...tsk... you were supposed to read around that word, obviously! I've never heard a colour called that, by the way. Very odd. Weird.

Ethnicity and the way a person looks has to be the basest reason to dislike someone. Name calling "Fatty", "Freckle Face", "Four Eyes" always sounded so ignorant, so unaware to me. Two of my sisters were teased because of their red hair, of all things, and another because she wore glasses. Just stupid.

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