American history is full of racism and hate and I think often that stuff gets overlooked today. I don't know how schools teach history these days, but I found out recently when I went into college, that I didn't even know about a lot of what happened in our history. There's so much of history that kids don't know, that if they did, they would see the US being even worse.
I remember learning about a lot of horrible things the US did when I was in elementary school, but I feel like kids these days, are taught about it differently. I blame it on how people want things to be safe for their children. So I have a feeling that a lot of schools don't teach about horrible things until someone is a teen. I feel like this stuff should be taught early on, to teach them that hate is bad, and that we need to learn from the past to be better. We have come far since then, but there is a ton of work that needs to be done even today.
I think it starts with schools. They need to teach our children and their children about not just the good, but all the horrible ish the US has done to its own citizens. idk, I just feel like it's being overlooked by schools these days to make schooling more safe for kids. That's how I'm seeing it anyway. What do you think?
Thing is, we may not want them to teach our history, because they can't. Even the most willing white people are not honest with themselves. What our kids need to know, can't be taught in schools.
My father had me watching all types of stuff about our history at a very young age. I'd cry and cry. I remember asking my dad "why hasn't a black man hung a white man in a tree?" ( I'm not suggesting that a black man does this). But the look on my father's face when I asked that was a look of sadness, embarrassment, anger, and confusion all in one. I didn't ask again.
My grandmother told me growing up how attractive she was and how she used to go to clubs and dance all night and have fun. It was fun hearing about it, until I realized that she never spoke about white supremacy. So I asked her once, "what were white people like when you were growing up?". She says "oh I don't know" in an annoyed tone.
I then spent years telling myself that my grandmother was so traumatized that she couldn't deal with the memories. That she didn't want to hurt us. But now I understand that I gave her too much credit and empathy.
She didn't care. She accepted her place in society, and to her, it was her rightful place. She didn't see herself as anything worth more than what she was told she was, and that was okay with her. As long as she was cute and could dance at the club. Other details of her life proved this.
I'm not saying this to disrespect my grandmother, I'm saying this because it's true for a lot of our grandmother's. They are and were complacent, and we have to understand that. They weren't the one in the tree, so they didn't care. This carelessness and selfishness didn't begin with millennials, but let them tell it. They weren't these intelligent strong diligent people that wanted change. No most of them wanted sex, liquor and money. Same thing they say we want now.
We have to start from an honest place within ourselves before we can really understand our history. There was and will always only be a few of us that are real, ready, and able. There will never be even close to a majority.
Our own history, forget white people for a second, teaches us that we're bad, that we're misinformed, that we're entitled, lazy, and greedy. But no, we're not, we're the ones that are fighting for who we thought our parents and grandparents were. It's time for us to start fighting for ourselves and our kids, our futures. As far as I'm concerned, both black and white people have been lying about our history both to make themselves look better AT OUR EXPENSE. We got both sides calling our sons thugs and calling our daughters degrading names.
We need to revise history by looking at the fruit of it. These old people are not acting like they fought for anything, and that's because they didn't. The Civil Rights Movement was no different than the BLM movement. Both products of selfish blacks and whites that together, are willing to oppress our futures to improve the rest of their frivolous lives.
Look how they let MLK die (I'm not his biggest fan), but they didn't do anything but fry some bacon after that. Maybe it's because he's served his purpose to both sides. They knew he was coming for reparations and both whites and blacks thought that was too much. So they cut him loose. I'm done