Read a quote earlier that “Black parents say a white guy shouldn’t teach black history”.
From the article:
>Phyllis Yarber Hogan, a member of the Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress, said a white teacher wouldn’t be well-suited to teaching students about subjects like slavery. “When you talk about slavery, students need to understand it is not our fault,” she said. “Our ancestors did nothing wrong to be enslaved. How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who did the enslaving?”
Yeah, she sounds real committed to progress. What a bunch of morons these people must be.
Pointless info: How old was Bob Hope when he died? The guy who wrote his New York Times obituary died in 2000.
Today’s CDs:
Arch Enemy, Anthems Of Rebellion
Peter Brotzmann/Thomas Borgmann/William Parker/Rashid Bakr, The Cooler Suite
Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions, Discs 1-4
Entombed, Left Hand Path
Various Artists, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Freddy Vs. Jason
Iron Maiden, Live After Death
Mantronix, That’s My Beat
Nicholas Payton, Sonic Trance
4 responses to White people shouldn’t teach black history, apparently
The source of a lot of a white teacher’s info is white-washed.(starting with the Greeks) Most would not stick out their necks to learn or tell the truth. I have also heard white historians fumble to explain facts that Blacks from every part of the globe and of every language recite; because the same story was passed down from generation to generation.
A few examples of what burns my black butt:
This week, the history channel spent an hour telling all about the Greeks and the lost city of Atlantis.
55 minutes into the praises, there was a 10 second clip that they first heard these stories of Atlantis from the Egyptians.
Thousands of West Indian and Millions of Indians soldiers fought for the British for hundreds of years but these records were *lost* when the Germans bombed the records office during the second world war. After a great deal of pressure and an apology from the queen, thousands of boxes of *destroyed records* were *discovered* in 2002
I would not know if they really do not know the truth or if they are on the regular paint job.
OK let’s all show up late to the party ( racial slur deleted by author of comment :O )….
Who ever said all white people were smart & honest? that sounds like racial profiling to me. Also Caucasians are a minority in the world population, maybe they are just insecure.
It helps to know there were other people enslaved in the world long before they showed up in North America. While there are many sordid details attached to the slavery in what became the United States, it was a barbaric human practice, in which many races were complicit. My best bet is most blacks today never experienced actual slavery, unless it was Curt Flood.
Many white people gave their lives to facilitate the end of US slavery. No credit for that, I suppose they deserved it. My family in both Europe & the US never owned a slave. If I personally did, it wouldn’t be a black. Hmmm that sounds racist. OK, some can be black, but I prefer to despoil Caucasians, Asians & Eurasians first. If I’m owning slaves, I demand my rights. Right or wrong.
white people shouldnt teach history because i think they dont know about black people that much and its kinda ok when black people call other black people negros but when a white person say it they say it wrong.like my teacher is white and he always do that and sometimes i be getting mad because it sound like he is trying to be funny.
white people should not teach a black history class.
when white people try to get on the topic of black things like slavery and civil rights in regular american history class, they often dont really put much into it. they touch the surface and rarely go further.
while no one is alive from slavery, many are alive from civil rights, and many blacks have probably dealt with some form of racism in their lifetime. young and old. some of it blatant and some of it closeted and hidden well.
a black teacher should teach black history, simply because they will probably have more heart and soul in the subject. and will go deeper than just the surface. it means more to them because it literally is their history. white people honestly are not capable of handling black issues. white can not and will never understand what its like to be black in america. there is more to black history than just slavery and civil rights.
im biracial and i like history and its painful enough for me to like things knowing that my black side was never accepted. and i never really got to learn much about black history growing up and i really want to know more about it.
if its one thing i noticed was that when i had black teachers in school (although not for history) i always felt different around them than i did around white teachers.
there were some white teachers i liked and got along with…but the black teachers were more strict and kind of more challenging and i always felt more safe around them….like either they understood me deep down or they knew what it was like growing up a minority in america.
the problem with some white teachers is they want to treat everyone the same way, without paying attention the individual needs each person.
white and black are not the same, pretending we all are, is detrimental to the child. as the core issues will always remain unattended.
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