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  1. #13

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by TheOrioleWay View Post
    I'm all for learning about Black History, as long as it doesn't sacrifice learning about history in general.

    Case in point; I'm a retired teacher. Kids in school these days are experts on Crispus Attucks, but have NO IDEA who Thomas Edison was! Da Vinci, Plato, etc.

    I can also recall watching a teacher put up a bulletin board display of famous African-Americans and recall the horrible dirty look I got when I asked why Clarence Thomas wasn't represented.

    I think we can all agree that Martin Luther King would be appalled at what's going on today.
    I agree and disagree with this post. I completely and fully agree that people like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell are necessary in the teaching of black history. History MUST be taught in full, and to act like there weren't prominent, successful and important black conservatives is a disservice to everyone.

    I disagree with what is taught in schools. I'm 27, so I was in school through the 90s and 2000s. I learned all about Plato, Da Vinci, and Edison. I learned nothing about black history besides MLK I had a dream, and that Rosa Parks at the front of the bus. That's it lol. Everything I've learned that actually meant something I've learned in my adult life.

    Third, I also disagree/agree that MLK would be appalled. He would be saddened that the first black president continued along the white moderate path that has killed people for so long. He would be happy that democratic socialism is making a slow but sure comeback

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  2. #14

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    Ummm his sex life wasn't public knowledge at all at the time. That has nothing to do with the poll numbers

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    It was the worst kept secret ever.

    And his socialistic bent during the cold war wasn't exactly endearing.

    Race riots were also quite common at the time.

    And the prescribed methods under discussion for dealing with integrations issues (most notably busing) were wrongful and unpopular.

    And there were plenty of holdover vestiges of "separate but equal" nonsense at the time.

    These things I'm sure, combined to make King pretty unpopular in his day.





  3. #15

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    True, he was radical

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    He was a socialist, and a moral degenerate.

    But he happened to be an advocate of a decent cause.





  4. #16

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    I agree and disagree with this post. I completely and fully agree that people like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell are necessary in the teaching of black history. History MUST be taught in full, and to act like there weren't prominent, successful and important black conservatives is a disservice to everyone.

    I disagree with what is taught in schools. I'm 27, so I was in school through the 90s and 2000s. I learned all about Plato, Da Vinci, and Edison. I learned nothing about black history besides MLK I had a dream, and that Rosa Parks at the front of the bus. That's it lol. Everything I've learned that actually meant something I've learned in my adult life.

    Third, I also disagree/agree that MLK would be appalled. He would be saddened that the first black president continued along the white moderate path that has killed people for so long. He would be happy that democratic socialism is making a slow but sure comeback

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    I don’t know what crappy school you attended but as a white kid growing up in the 80’s in the second whitest states in the country we learned far more than that... it probably wasn’t enough for SOME people’s standards but it was dramatically more than that.


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  5. #17

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by jonboy79 View Post
    I don’t know what crappy school you attended but as a white kid growing up in the 80’s in the second whitest states in the country we learned far more than that... it probably wasn’t enough for SOME people’s standards but it was dramatically more than that.


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    Well you gotta tell me what you learned, because I never learned about the significance of people like Fred Hampton, W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey, etc....what were you guys taught?

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  6. #18

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by jonboy79 View Post
    I don’t know what crappy school you attended but as a white kid growing up in the 80’s in the second whitest states in the country we learned far more than that... it probably wasn’t enough for SOME people’s standards but it was dramatically more than that.


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    Crispus Attucks - famous for getting shot
    Benjamin Banneker - Made Clocks and assisted Andrew Ellicott when he surveyed DC
    George Washington Carver - Made stuff out of peanuts.
    Justice Thurgood Marshall
    Jesse Owens
    Frederick Douglass


    Etc..etc.. etc.. I got all this and more in the 70's





  7. #19

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by owknows View Post
    He was a socialist, and a moral degenerate.

    But he happened to be the leader of the most important cause in American history.
    Fixed it for you

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  8. #20

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    Well you gotta tell me what you learned, because I never learned about the significance of people like Fred Hampton, W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey, etc....what were you guys taught?

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    Fred Hampton - Marxist Commie
    W.E.B. Dubois - One of hundreds of lesser known abolitionists
    Marcus Garvey - A racist, and kind of a kook
    Last edited by owknows; 02-20-2021 at 02:56 PM.





  9. #21

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    Fixed it for you

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    It's considered bad for to modify someone's words, so it appear that they said something that they didn't say.

    I would say that the Civil Rights movement was pretty important...

    But I'd place the The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence The American Revolution... The drafting of the Constitution... The Civil War... and a few other events at considerably greater significance.

    And certainly King played his part as a religious figure in the movement.

    But he also used his position of power to sexually exploit young girls...he engaged orgies somewhat routinely... made a mockery of his wedding vows, and was a socialist.

    So I get back to the idea that he was a scummy person who happened to advocate a worthwhile Civil Rights cause.





  10. #22

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by owknows View Post
    Fred Hampton - Marxist Commie
    W.E.B. Dubois - One of hundred of lesser known abolitionists
    Marcus Garvey - A racist, and kind of a kook
    Lolol imagine calling Garvey a racist but refusing to call Trump a racist fascist

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  11. #23

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by bandc View Post
    Lolol imagine calling Garvey a racist but refusing to call Trump a racist fascist

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    Garvey was a Black Separatist and a Black Nationalist.

    By his own words





  12. #24

    Re: Black History

    Quote Originally Posted by owknows View Post
    It's considered bad for to modify someone's words, so it appear that they said something that they didn't say.

    I would say that the Civil Rights movement was pretty important...

    But I'd place the The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence The American Revolution... The drafting of the Constitution... The Civil War... and a few other events at considerably greater significance.

    And certainly King played his part as a religious figure in the movement.

    But he also used his position of power to sexually exploit young girls...he engaged orgies somewhat routinely... made a mockery of his wedding vows, and was a socialist.

    So I get back to the idea that he was a scummy person who happened to advocate a worthwhile Civil Rights cause.
    Wait, how do you know this is all true? Hearsay from a racist biased FBI led by a racist J. Edgar Hoover who made claims and allegations? Do you have visual proof of this? Audio proof of the claims you make? Any eyewitness testimony?

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