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Running racism in America thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, May 26, 2020.

  1. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    “Michael B. Phelps” is inspired.
     
  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

  4. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    The kids' parents are snowflakes.

     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  6. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    That story was disappointing.
     
  7. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    For example, a lesson in the Advanced Placement course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content, saying the instructional approach “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity.”

    Florida reviewers of AP African American Studies sought ‘opposing viewpoints’ of slavery

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article278582149.html
     
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Triangle Trade has been a basic in American History classes for generations and all of a sudden it's un-American?
     
    justgladtobehere and Inky_Wretch like this.
  10. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    United (sometimes) States history is un-American.
     
  12. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    This whole country was built by forcing one group off the land and forcing another group to then work on it. But “Oh beautiful for slavers’ homes and fields of genocide” doesn’t have the same ring for a patriotic song.
     
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