America has a proud history of anti-racism – like the Declaration of Independence, abolitionists, Nat Turner, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation, the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Angela Davis and so much else.
But since 1890 it has been played down or lied about in American high school history books.
Why?
- White teachers in the South: Those who write history books for high school try to appeal to White teachers in the South, particularly in Texas, to sell more books.
- High school history avoids ideas, especially “divisive” ones like anti-racism. It is way easier to teach names and dates – partly because they are so boring!
- To talk about anti-racism would mean talking about racism – which is also played down and avoided.
- A White racist view of Black History which writes it off as unimportant because it is “only about Blacks”, a sort of sidebar to Real American History.
For example:
- John Brown (pictured right) is written off as a madman, religious nut, fanatic, etc. Yet writers whom Americans are taught to admire in English class, like Emerson and Thoreau, admired him! Not that anyone at high school is going to tell you that.
- Abraham Lincoln, whatever his faults, fought his own racism and freed the slaves. That inner battle with his own racism is never shown.
- The civil war, before 1970, was taught as being mainly about states rights and preserving the union, not about freeing the slaves. Lincoln, even now, is misquoted to that effect.
- The Gettysburg Address: students used to have to learn it by heart. Now most history books do not even print it in full! And those that do barely talk about it. Even though (or, more likely, because) it wonderfully sums up the Union cause in the civil war, tying Black freedom to the Declaration of Independence.
- White Reconstructionists, who worked for making the races equal in the South, sometimes putting themselves in great physical danger, like by teaching Black children to read, are called carpetbaggers (pictured right) and scallywags – terms lifted straight from White racist propaganda of the time.
- The civil rights movement becomes pretty much just Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus and Martin Luther King giving a great speech about being colour-blind, thus ending racism – and any further need for anti-racism!
- Martin Luther King, like Lincoln, wrote profoundly about race and America, but, as with Lincoln, little of it is used. Both King and Lincoln condemned America for its racist crimes – also left out.
- The Black Panthers – the Texas school board requires they be put in a bad light because they were for “violence”.
Thanks to the overthrow of Jim Crow in the South by the civil rights movement, high school history books are better now than in the 1950s, but there has been little change since at least the late 1980s.
Source: Some of this comes from chapter 6 of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me (2007). Unfortunately he mainly just talks about anti-racism by White people!
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I have to start over. I concur with all the power points in your post. The history books have omitted information as well as falsified information. And there are many culturally biased historians and class room instructors who don’t present accurate information correctly. And others have an agenda to lead others astray.
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Last weekend I watch the History channel’s Mankind the Story of All of Us. I would like to say i was totally dissapointed in the DVD, it didn’t tell me anything new about Mankind history. I love history and all the dvd did was repeat the same crap that I learned in Highschool. They should rename it Mankind the History of White people, they barely talked about Africa, Asia, Middle East or South America. It was mostly about Europe and the US, I felt liek I wasted my money, I should have now better.
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lol @ son2380, well now you know, better.
I actually have, “Lies My teacher Told me” audio book on my ipad 2, i listened to it, awhile ago. Opened my eyes to the white washing of American history, so future children, won’t know what really happened.
Top notch post, abagond….
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@Sondis
I wish I can get the book, The Lies My Teacher Taught Me and read it.
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@Sondis I just wanted to learn about the history of other Culture and their Accomplishments other than europe and US. I mean they acted like the only contribution Africa made to the world was slavery, they mentioned College that was the educational mecca of the middle east, but they didn’t ellaborated enough on it. It was just and after thought
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@ son2380 That’s what i have come, to expect from this country and nothing more.
@ Adeen, I think we can arrange something…
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I also have the epub file of “Lies my teacher told me”
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I don’t know what school you went to but I got most of this when I went to school.
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Abagond does exactly what he accuses others of. He focuses on his own personal agenda and, once again, history is distorted.
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@Sondis
I hope we can arrange something to.
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“Lies…” is not a bad book to have when studying U.S. history. Another thing they skip over are some of the various Indian Wars (i.e. Florida), which were directly related to slavery.
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I think I will purchase this book as well. Another book that interests me is A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn.
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I like what Attorney General Eric Holder said. “We live in a nation of cowards unwilling to have an honest discussion about race.” Well this sums up why the information in school text books have been omiited, played down and lied about.
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You tell em, Mary! ^_^
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Very Good comment, Kiwi! ^5
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@ Sondis; Remember in caucasian mythology everyone lived happily ever after LoL!
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Ommit, when I was going to school there were no blacks in our history books. In fact the reason I became a history teacher way back was because in school some kids in the 5th grade said, “What have black people ever done for the country and you guys didn’t make anything either.” That put a fire under my Oreo ass to find out exactly what we had made because no way he hadn’t I thought.
I had to visit the library everyday just to get a general on what we had done because the books go all quiet about a man’s race when he or she is black and have done something of worth. I don’t mean being the first as first black woman in space, it is an achievement but let me as a token black person say, they’ll just say white people did it first. I wish I had the internet back then good thing my mother gave me some good leads.
When black people came up in school it was always as well they were slaves. Which isn’t always true and misleading but a lot of teacher cry it is too complicated. Too complicated! Understanding the minds of their forefathers is complicated who invented or made what isn’t. However if we are going to talk about things that are hidden about American history and race we’d need at least the lenght of the Encylopedia Brittanica to cover chapter one. What didn’t they say about Natives, Africans, Asians, and how they treated even themselves. Because Pilgrims and Puritans weren’t all buddy buddy by any means.
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Yes mary, i sure do…. 😉
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I came across this, while searching for a good, documentary to watch on my apple TV: The Human Zoo Science’s Dirty Little Secret there are 4 parts.
I watched it on my apple tv but searched for it on YouTube, so i can share it with, everyone on the site. Very disturbing, how white people treated other human beings.
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@ Sondis, Thank you for this. I knew about this. I knew about Ota Benga and Sarah Baartman. America has a shameful past. I think all Americans black and white need to always be reminded of things like this.
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Your very welcome, Mary.
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@ Sondis, and I called myself a history teacher. I thought world fairs were bad but this was like a trippy flashback into the depths of hellfire.
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lol @ King of trouble
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BadWolf said:
Churchs said:
Apparently at BadWolf’s school they taught my distorted history 😉
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I remember reading encyclopedias and textbooks written in the 1950s when I was a child. If you read them today, they would sound so scandalous.
For example, a common word used back then was “the White Man”. They would say something like “After the Americans acquired Florida from Spain, the Seminoles fought in many wars against the White Man and many died. Finally they surrendered in 1859 and most moved out of the State. Today, the White Man and the remaining descendants of the Seminole live in peace.”
They did not mention that they removed the only seat reserved for them in the State Legislature and also disenfranchised their voting rights after that.
We should have a post about American History textbooks in the 1950s vs. 2000s.
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I wish I could have my history book from Jr. High. I was absolutely flabbergasted in High School when I was trying to write a book and came across the reconstruction period. I mean it never happened in any of my history books at home it wasn’t until my last year of High School and I was in Boarding School by then that I found it. I mean shock I was, after all after Lincoln freed the slaves everything was Zippy DuDa Zippy Day. Those pesky Klan members did show up but Martin Luther King and President John F. Kennedy stood up agianst them.
I have many things to thank my Boarding School for even if I was the first black kid they had ever had they bought Malcolm X and made me watch it. I was pist at Spike Lee for Jungle Fever and had sworn never to watch another movie from him. “You’ve got jungle fever” if another white person sang that song to me I swear I was going to clock them. My girlfriend at the time was Hispanic with dark curly hair and sexy attitude to match. So who where they calling Jungle.
Sorry for the diatribe, still I began reading more Malcolm after that. Now he struck all kinds of cords in me. I wasn’t going to change my religion but the outlook I had was different. It was the part of me that always kind of struggled with the thought that I wasn’t black enough. He duct taped that up, and there I was I always knew I was black but something in me always felt like if I couldn’t find mass black acceptance then something was wrong. I didn’t need mass acceptance I need to be the force that was me and those who liked what they saw would come. Our history books cut Martin Luther King’s speech down to only it’s most famous bit. I had never read the whole thing. Kids in Japan have read the whole thing and I hadn’t.
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The topics were covered where I went to school, too. And there was some distortion — though certainly not to the extent you would prefer.
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Malcolm X was not covered in my High School at all. I was nearly 18 when my mother and I had a long talk about the era she grew up in. She told me about what Miss. was like in the 50’s, about picking cotton as a child,the separate water fountains, about the family deciding to move North after the Emmet Till event, which I never heard of in school either..
She discussed with me both King and X and their philosophies and how she had joined the local Black Panthers in Ohio when she was a teenager. There was a whole history of the world I’d never known about. She even taught us new things about Thanksgiving and the first time I ever heard of Juneteenth was from her and not school.
She considers the history that is taught in schools to be largely useless.
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I knew about Human Zoos from my readings on the Chicago Worlds Fair but mostly in relation to various Native tribes.
One of the offshoots of this sort of thinking is still around today: Tarzan is a direct offshoot of this belief that “White Men” are can excel in every environment because they are ” more fleet of limb and clear of eye” then the lesser peoples. (This leads also to the “White Saviour” trope seen in everything from Dances with Wolves to Avatar.)
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I did a post on human zoos:
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@Ikeke35
I am almost 18. My family is from Jamaica and my mother did tell me from Black American history that I didn’t know. I was shocked because the schools never taught it.
@King of Trouble
”It was the part of me that always kind of struggled with the thought that I wasn’t black enough. He duct taped that up, and there I was I always knew I was black but something in me always felt like if I couldn’t find mass black acceptance then something was wrong. I didn’t need mass acceptance I need to be the force that was me and those who liked what they saw would come. ”
Same here. I have been told that I act and talk like a White girl because I don’t sound ”ghetto”. I find that hurtful because I am a Black woman and I am interested in Black American history and want to learn more about it. I sometimes feel like I am not Black enough by people’s standards but I know I have to be me and accept who I am.
Honestly as a young, Black woman, why does History books diminish or even leave out the accomplishments of Blacks and other minorities in this country?
My history book doesn’t contain information about the first Black man to perform the first open heart surgery or the Black man who made street lights or the Black man who made air conditioning etc.
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Adeen,
Vivian Thomas was the 1st black man, to perform open heart surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland. I watched the documentary, “Partners of the Heart” it aired on PBS within their American Experience, program.
I never learned about Mr. Thomas, in high school.
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@Sondis
”I never learned about Mr. Thomas, in high school.”
I learned about the Black man(Vivian Thomas) who performed the first open heart surgery from my mother but they don’t teach it at my school. Good information.
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@Sondis and Adeen ; Rent the movie Something that the Lord Made. It is well made and well acted. Mos Def stars as Vivian Moore.
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@Sondis: None of us learned about Vivian Moore in school. I didn’t know about him until I saw the film.
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*Correction Vivian Thomas. I need to go to bed now. Vivian Thomas.
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@ mary, Adeen, Bulanik,
I saw the movie, “something the Lord Made”, mos def, played the role of Vivian Thomas, very good. I personally, preferred the documentary over the movie.
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@ Legion:
Very interesting…..very interesting indeed.
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[…] "America has a proud history of anti-racism – like the Declaration of Independence, abolitionists, Nat Turner, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation, the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Angela Davis and so much else. But since 1890 it has been played down or lied about in American high school history books.Why? […]
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@ Adeen, That is a pain I was intimate with. I know I am black and as my ex-girlfriends use to say no one love’s himself more than you. They were right I love my skin I love the deep rich red brown tones. I am quite a narcissist about it. When other’s try to tell me I am not black I laugh because I know they are just ignorant about what is truely black. To the core of your being you are that woman you know yourself to be. I use to tell my students to close their eyes, now picture yourself on your best day. That is the person you really are it was not a freak day, it was not something special this is truely who you are. That is the person you carry inside yourself everyday. When I close my eyes I always see that shining rich brown person starring back at me and that is what allowed me to make it through some truely hellish times. Even in a sea of knuckleheads, racist, and ignorant fools if I had the chance to be me again I wouldn’t hesitate. I might be what a lot blacks think of as an Oreo but that isn’t going to stop me from being proud of myself, my kin, and my history. A whole lot of people went through hell to produce me and that is why I love my skin and myself so much.
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King of Trouble:
Not to start something here but I’ve often found that it was the members of my own race who tried so very hard to put me into little boxes that they could understand. Not that white people didn’t try but they also couldn’t tell me how to be black. Only other black people tried to tell me that I was doing it wrong. Fortunately it didn’t take me very long to figure out how small and limited those people are.
On a side note: When I was very young, I saw Jessye Norman on TV, and saw she was black and I just knew I wanted to be her and sing Opera and headed in that direction for many years until I discovered drawing and then decided there could only be one J.Norman.
I don’t think everyone can stress enough to Adeen how huge the world is and that the more you learn about it and expose yourself to it’s wonders the more interesting you will be as a person and the more likely you will be able to reach/be your ideal self.It’s so incredibly important that you not allow other people to tell you who you are or who you are going to be. Only you can decide that.
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@Leigion: Thank you for the Jessye Norman clip. She is like a force of nature. She is like a queen. I just love her poise and grace. Very beautiful
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The Jessye Norman clip is great. Such a wonderful contrast to the negative images of black women on television today. All young black people should know about this beautiful talented woman.
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[…] "America has a proud history of anti-racism – like the Declaration of Independence, abolitionists, Nat Turner, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation, the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Angela Davis and so much else.But since 1890 it has been played down or lied about in American high school history books.Why? […]
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Ikeke35: one of my favorite things ever said to me was this, Youngblood (early eighties so you’ll have to forgive the lexicons seventies were still around and we had butterfly collars and bellbottom pants to my horror.) there ain’t nothing a black person hasn’t done, turn a penny and we are there. It’s true because if you name anything you’ll find a black person there. That is why history is such a gym it’s like those Hidden Picture magazines in the pediatrician’s office.
We’ve made some Opera’s there are old famous black composers from at least the late 1700’s in European Classical music.
Blackness is as encompassing as the sea and as unique as a snowflake. Somewhere black people got it in their head that we were some cookie cutter product. We are not. We are rich in our own diversity and that is what makes the see of color the most unbreakable force around. Did you know there was a black Samurai, Kurosuke was his name almost named my newborn son that. We are navigators, architects, mathematicians, astronauts, there is nothing in this world a black person can’t be.
So when I hear the limited view a some on what they think a black person is I laugh because I know if they open up their eyes they would see. We are rebels, we are poets, we politicians, we are singers, we a strong spice to this planet and that has always been and resonant so far through history. We are the warriors who can’t be beat, we are pacifist who weather through all kinds of mistreatment and deceit. We are rhythmic dancers, we are black women who find a way to fly, We can also not be saints, but we are a strong people and that is enough for me even when some think I am an Oreo or Uncle Tom because I know I am in the tapestry of Blackness.
I am all colors, from creamy to obsidian, I am that run away slave, I am am the slave who endures, I am the slave stuck in the house, I am the slave out in the field my fingers scarred from the cotton I pick. I am that angry black woman guarding the hell out of her child from this crazy world we see. I am the imprison black male but they can’t contain me. I am all those things because my heritage sings to me. Sweeter than any melody, sweeter than the mating calls of crickets at night. I am that dark beauty who refuses to be labelled because someone thinks my features are not a work of art. I see that I am beauty, I hold my head high. I love my hair it doth protect me quite uniquely more forcefully than a lover you see.
If someone cannot see my blackness then they are blind fools to me. I shine. When I see my kin my ethnicity I see their shine and I can’t help but smile. I am part of a rich tapestry and by no means is it a dull pattern. We are a lion hearted people that have had to drive on in a snowy whiteout. Sometimes we can’t see forward because of the that haze. Yet, I think a black person should never look at another black person and think Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, because we are everything and black people are always amaze.
Never give up –think about all those poor africans that were thrown in the sea, all those ones pushed to death on the rice fields, we handle everything because we are amazing.
I asked God to be black, this was no mistake, I couldn’t picture myself in any other skin. If reincarnation is true than 99.9% I would ask to be black the 1% is because I would like to be a aerial creature flight seems so cool. Yet, not as great as being black not as great as understanding that you are the legacy and reward of a great people.
Sorry this is so long. It is a passionate thing for me.
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@Legion
Jessye Norman clip was nice and I liked it.
Yes I should be myself but the world expects me to be something else but I have always struggle to be myself.
You see, high school is a time where many people my age want to fit in and be accepted. I had a hard time with that and I still do because I try be myself yet I always feeling the pressure to be like my peers and not be ostracized as weird yet I am myself. I don’t ever try to change myself for anyone. I try to be myself and accepting myself for who I am.
Thank God, high school is almost over for me!
@King Of Trouble
I can definitely relate to you being an Oreo because I am thought as you by the people I encounter White and Black but deep down, I know I will become the author/journalist I wish to be by being myself and trying as hard as I can to be those two things.
Honestly I like this blog and the bloggers. I can learn from the experiences of the older people on this blog and learn from them because the people are so honest with each other.
This site is much better than Sodahead! I hardly comment on that site because of the many racists on the site anymore and because it is getting old and boring. During the election, you wouldn’t believe the racist trolls who attacked my comments to make themselves feel better!
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@ Adeen: Be your true authentic self. The creator made you to be you. Don’t let others tell you how to be. If they don’t like it, they can kick rocks.
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Jessye Norman is very classy and intelligent Black woman that I will add to the list of Black woman that I look up to as role models. Yes Michelle Obama is role model as well as Oprah Winfrey and a few other names I can’t think of right now.
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my favorite role models are my mom and grandmother.
My fave celebrity role models are maya angelou,jill scott,and india arie.They are all amazing
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“Don’t let others tell you how to be. If they don’t like it, they can kick rocks.”
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^^^ Righteous TRUTH! ^^^ Ms. Mary
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“Sorry this is so long. It is a passionate thing for me.”
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It would suit me just fine if your unique piece were even longer – BECAUSE YOU SAID THE TRUTH.
Thanks!
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To Sondis:
Vivian Thomas was the 1st black man, to perform open heart surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland.
He was the first Black man to perform open heart surgery in the US or at John Hopkin’s University..? Correct if you meant the latter.
FWIW, it is my understand the first Black man to perform open heart surgery in the United States (and one of the first cardiologists in the US) was Daniel Hale Williams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams
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@ Uncle Milton: Yes that is correct. Daniel Hale Williams was the first American cardiologist who performed one of the first successful open heart surgeries in the United States. Good Looking out. How did I forget that? But that’s exactly right.
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Thanks for the correction @ Uncle Milton….
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Percy Julian. Without him, there is no modern medicine.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmjuli.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian
Without him, steroids would still cost about $100/month to make (not to sell or to ship, to *make*). Your birth control pills? You can buy 3 months worth for $12 because of him. Your relative’s gout or arthritis medication? $3/month, because of him. Asthma medication? Cheap enough to be given away (albuterol, especially, and that’s the *good* one) because of him. Insulin for less than your rent? Thank Dr. Julian. By inventing the process that turns plant steroids into readily processed animal steroids, drugs that would have needed thousands of animals to butcher and render for material, can be created in equivalent amounts using less than an acre of ripe yams.
P.S.-George Washington Carver isn’t famous (scientifically speaking) for creating peanut butter. He’s famous for soil revitalization (discovering how to grow more crops on less land without depleting the fertility of the dirt.) His secondary discoveries (uses for the peanuts that he grew on depleted land to render it fertile) were just that, *secondary*. Carver made it possible to grow food twice yearly (instead of leaving valuable arable land fallow to replenish its stores of nitrogen), which led to our current environment in which sending millions of tons of food for famine relief is no burden (instead of prior eras, in which the ruling class would have to worry about potential famine for their own people.
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They will never tell the truth of their violent oppressive past or present. No the white agenda is about promoting white myths mostly with films like lincoln. That is why so many whites wonder why so many others distrust them. They dont want the truth and will call you racist for speaking such truths.
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Beautiful interview with Jessye Norman. Its ashame I haven’t heard of her or her story before. Enjoyed listening to her voice and opera. 🙂 There is a lot of pieces and facts that they certainly don”t teach in American history in both elementary and high school. And when you reach university and try to challenge your professor on correcting some flaws in the history books, your professor will fight teeth and nail to disapprove or totally ignore historical facts that challenge the often robotic white washed history spewed to students.
As for Martin Luther King, I always thought it was funny that a lot of his great speeches concerning social justice within the United States and how racism has often contradicted the belief of the American Exceptionalism that’s tied to the American Dream was also overshadowed by the overplayed “I have a Dream” speech. As though it was the only speech he ever made. His phenomenal & prophetic speech on why he was against the Vietnam War and how colonialism dehumanized peoples of color everywhere and US Foreign Policy’s arrogant role in world affairs is worth a listen. It has purposely been bypassed by many teachers and kept away from Americans of not only history but of other topics of interest. Malcom X is one of many civil rights/human rights leaders and heroes that are equally casted aside in history classes. Not to mention other illuminating activists and writers on African Americans and African world such as Harry Belfonte, James Baldwin, Kwame Nkrumah, Amil Cabral, Nelson Mandela (when he was a terrorist in the eyes of the white world before Apartheid ended) Thomas Sankara and Frantz Fanon. As a side note, why is the US always talking about civil rights but never human rights for their own citizens? Its odd that human rights is never connected to American citizen’s rights.
MLK’s Against Vietnam speech: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm
On American arrogance: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16183.htm
King on achieving real social justice across America not only racial equality but also cementing human rights and economic empowerment
Listen here: http://www.voxunion.com/liberating-dr-king-the-ls-coming-mixtape-real-king-real-politics-real-beats-w-sese/
Looks like the history teachers didn’t do their homework.
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Sorry to ruffle a couple feathers on other threads, but we have a LOT of work to do here on this topic.
You’re right, the anti-racism civil rights history between 1880s – 1950s has almost been obliterated from our collective consciousness, and pre-1880s anti-racism has been skewed. Even most of the readers on this blog (which are more enlightened than most), have very limited knowledge or understanding of it. We have our work cut out for us.
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@son2380
Sorry, I missed this earlier. Maybe because I only got to watch it on the plane in April, and just the first 4 chapters.
I thought it was horrible. Completely a white man’s depiction of history. The little they talked about Africa, Asia and the Americas was about their “contributions” to white history and culture, esp. white American history and culture. For example, they said that mankind originated out of Africa. Then there is virtually no further mention until the slave trade.
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Civil war revisionism drives me nuts. I am continually amazed that people can taut that line. States rights? States rights to do WHAT?
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