This is why they are BANNING black history in schools..

[jotathought]

Ask the people in Florida.

Or Texas and any other state banning things based on their interpretation of CRT, DEI, etc.

High school graduates are not proficient in core classes like math and english (e.g. they can't do it), what makes you think they would care about history?

 

[sparky]

They're not banning, they're altering to a political agenda,,,,,~S~

 

[toobfreak]

Ask the people in Florida. Or Texas and any other state

No, YOU SAID: "This is why they are BANNING black history in schools.."

Now give us the list of schools and states which have BANNED black history and are doing so with ongoing, active legislation to do so, or get off this forum now. Don't give us this lame cop out that WE need to go talk to some undefined people of some state. YOU made the claim, now YOU back it up.

 

[Kruska]

This is why they are BANNING black history in schools..​

There is no such thing as Black History in the USA - just a slavery episode also encompassing non-Africans (That everyone knows about) and occurred more then 150 years ago.

And the present episode since the 1960's is about African-Americans integrating well into the US society, and those like IM2 who live in the past, joining those who propagate racism, deny a horrendous crime rate amongst Africans, prefer an asocial lifestyle, ghetto hip hop culture - and thus clearly demonstrating the unwillingness to become useful citizens to enhance the US society as a whole.
Instead they prefer to hang around all day long, humping and breeding around, and waiting for money to rain on them - just like the vast majority of their ancestors in present day Africa.

 

[toobfreak]

Wrong.

So no black college would have you neither?

And the rest of your post is more stupud racist garbage.

Kan't argure width that!

The fact is that whites like you are scared of anyone learning the truth.

Whites like me? Scared?
You sure do like to blow a lot of smoke up your ass!

 

[Calypso Jones]

Don't base your opinion of colored people on the antics of Blm/antifa and IM2. There ARE MORE law abiding america loving normal black people out there than these racist bellyachers. Don't forget that. Don't let the gov't divide us anymore than we are.

 

[toobfreak]

This is why they are BANNING black history in schools..​

There is no such thing as Black History in the USA

The very definition of "black history" is RACIST. The very people supposedly touting black accomplishment seeking acceptance are driving its own separateness. How do you ban black history when it would just be part of American History? Do they put Polish Americans in separate books? German Americans? French? English? Latin? Japanese, Chinese or Russian?

THEN WHY WOULD BLACKS BE SINGLED OUT IN THEIR OWN BOOKS to be banned, unless you WANTED to perpetuate the perception of separateness? Are schools literally TEARING THE PAGES out of books that have black people in them achieving notable things?

And if so, then why have I heard of George Washington Carver? I mean, isn't he one of the greatest success stories of black history? Why isn't he banned?

How do blacks like IM2 expect to ever shed the racist domicile of theirs demanding INCLUSION and non-racism while they continue their mad campaign to maintain their racially-driven SEPARATENESS?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Wrong. And the rest of your post is more stupud racist garbage. The fact is that whites like you are scared of anyone learning the truth.

Ya know the only reason a lot of people give you shit,including myself,is you're a pompous ass with a large helping of racism thrown in.
You're gonna get treated the same way you treat others.
So while I dont expect you to change you can expect me to do the same.

 

[excalibur]

Um, okay, when your video mentions the MOVE incident in Philadelphia, they really kind of lost me.

MOVE was a whacky cult. They got burned out of their home by the government. So did the Branch Davidians, who were mostly white people.

Most people aren't familiar with the broad strokes of American History, much less the trivial incidents your video goes on about. (And yes, most of them were trivial in the cosmic course of history.)

And the mayor when the MOVE incident happened was Wilson Goode, a black Democrat.

 

[excalibur]

Don't base your opinion of colored people on the antics of Blm/antifa and IM2. There ARE MORE law abiding america loving normal black people out there than these racist bellyachers. Don't forget that. Don't let the gov't divide us anymore than we are.

A guy like IM2 pisses all over outstanding black people such as Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas because they and others like them don't hew to some black-Marxist bullshit.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Republicans authored an amendment to officially make slavery a constitutionally protected activity. The Republican Party is the party of The Corwin Amendment that would have cemented slavery as a constitutional right.

A Republican president, with the support of the Republican Party, ended reconstruction. The Republican Party is the party of the 1877 Compromise that ended reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow.

Once blacks got a foothold in the Republican party and gained some semblance of political equality, white Republicans took steps to purge blacks from leadership positions. The Republican Party is the party of the Lily White movement, a group of Republicans who worked to purge blacks from the party.

Republicans consistently broke promises or ignored issues that affected black people. When blacks got Civil Rights, the Republican Party did not believe that was civil or right and decided that extremism in defense of liberty was no vice. In 1964 the Republican Party turned its back on blacks after nearly 100 years of black support.

Today’s Republican Party is controlled by a racist Anti-Black base.

Yes we do.

And no proof to back it up.

AS USUAL!!!

And what about your precious Bible? Chocked FULL of slavery and persecutions, murders, and beatings of slaves. The Bible even says slavery is a right. And here you are going against it???? More DemoNazi "logic".

 

[IM2]

I did not know Texas or Florida banned black history. When did they do it? A link to the story of banning black history in public schools would do fine, if you can find it.

You know good and well what's going on. I don't say things like this just to say them. Every anti CRT law that is being made and passed is about banning the teaching of black history or anything else that does not make whites feel comfortable.

 

[IM2]

A guy like IM2 pisses all over outstanding black people such as Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas because they and others like them don't hew to some black-Marxist bullshit.

Blacks like Sowell and Thomas piss all over outstanding black people. Whites like you don't get to determine what we think is outstandibg. Sowell and Thomas are Uncle Toms and those like you naturally support a black person who is willing to accept second place.

 

[IM2]

And no proof to back it up.

AS USUAL!!!

And what about your precious Bible? Chocked FULL of slavery and persecutions, murders, and beatings of slaves. The Bible even says slavery is a right. And here you are going against it???? More DemoNazi "logic".

It's not wise to use the bible to justify wrong.

Arthur Zilversmit, Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1980, pp. 22-45, U-M Library Digital Collections j/jala/2629860.0002.104?view=text;rgn=main

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Did Lincoln Want to Ship Black People Back to Africa? https://www.theroot.com/did-lincoln-want-to-ship-black people-back-to-africa-1790858389

The Corwin Amendment, The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught - The Heritage Post corwin-amendment/

Robert Longley, The Corwin Amendment, Enslavement, and Abraham Lincoln, Updated July 24, 2019, How the Corwin Amendment of 1861 Would Have Protected Enslavement

The Reconstruction Act, American Historama: United States History for kids *** 1881-reconstruction-era/reconstruction-acts-1867.htm

Louis Kleber, The Presidential Election of 1876, History Today Volume 20 Issue 11 November 1970, The Presidential Election of 1876 | History Today

The Compromise of 1877, Khan Academy | Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/reconstruction/a/ compromise-of-1877

Jeff Charles, Lily-White Movement: Why Black Americans Left The GOP, Liberty Nation News, April 02, 2021, https://www.libertynation.com/lily-white-movement-why-blackamericans-left-the-gop/

Lily-white movement, American History USA white-movement/

Tsahai Tafari, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, THIRTEEN - New York Public Media wnet/jimcrow/print/p_struggle_president.html

116TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, Roll Call 654, Bill Number: H. R. 4, Voting Rights Advancement Act, DEC 06, 2019, Roll Call 654 Roll Call 654, Bill Number: H. R. 4, 116th Congress, 1st Session

Josh Israel, Every Senate Republican just voted against voting rights — again, American Independent, January 20, 2022, Every Senate Republican just voted against voting rights — again ncement-act-freedom-to-vote-act/

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Who's banning black history? Nobody that I know of. They may be banning false history, or they may be banning CRT, but they aren't banning true, black history. You should be happy that kids will be taught the truth instead of a lie.

Here's an example - the parent who got this book banned alleged that it "...haves indirectly hate messages". She also for some strange reason thinks Oprah Winfrey is the author. Talk about ignorance, complaining about something that you can't even correctly articulate.

This Parent Complaint Form About the Poem “The Hill We Climb” Speaks Volumes About the Book-Banning Movement​

​

You may remember the name Amanda Gorman from her incredible, moving poem “The Hill We Climb” that she delivered at the 2021 presidential inauguration.

Since that time, you may remember her from reciting a poem before the 2021 Super Bowl, cohosting the Met Gala in 2021, or being on the covers of Vogue, Glamour, and Time.

If you have a toddler, you may remember her from Sesame Street and the episode where she and Grover talk about being an upstander.

Now, the name Amanda Gorman is unfortunately tied to the latest book ban.
Yesterday, Gorman posted on her Instagram that the book version of her poem The Hill We Climb was banned from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

“I’m gutted,” she shared. “I wrote The Hill We Climb so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment. Ever since, I’ve received countless letters and videos from children inspired by The Hill We Climb to write their own poems. Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech.” Read her full comments here.


She also posted the complaint form, which speaks volumes. Read it carefully.

I know what the person filling out this form thought they were saying. But here’s what this form and the subsequent banning really say.

What the challenge to The Hill We Climb says about the book-banning movement​

It reiterates the critical need for literacy instruction​

I won’t talk about the errors in punctuation and grammar because those are honestly the weakest points in this case. But the incomplete form reveals one of two things. Either the complainant didn’t read the book or doesn’t have age-appropriate rhetorical skills to engage thoughtfully with written material. Both of these are troubling for a district to accept at face value when deciding to ban a book.

It shows at best a concerning level of reading comprehension, at worst an acceptance of casual racism​

Though I’m no longer in the classroom, I’m still programmed to look at an incorrect answer and ask myself, “How did they arrive at that?”
So when I saw that the complainant listed Oprah Winfrey as the author, I stopped. I decided to look up the book cover to see how she arrived at that response.

As a teacher, I would be asking myself, “Does the complainant need me to go back and reteach what a foreword means, or why it’s casually racist to confuse two different, highly visible black women?”

Or maybe I would just decide the complainant needs more exposure to books.

It highlights the refusal to engage with different ideas​

To me, one of the most representative statements on this form is this:

I don’t need it.
I don’t need to listen to points from the other side.
I am so deeply threatened by the possibility that I could be wrong that I refuse to engage with it.

It raises questions about what constitutes “indoctrination”​

The complainant lists that they believe the purpose of the material is to “cause confusion.” (This is interesting to me because I would have said the same thing about the purpose of Infinite Jest in college, but I digress.)
The complainant lists that the other purpose of the material is to “indoctrinate students.” After rereading Gorman’s poem, I did find a few things that Gorman encourages the reader to accept:

• The inherent value of all people
• The importance of resilience
• The idea that we are better together
• The encouragement to persevere past fear, adversity, and other hard times

If that’s indoctrination, I guess we need to be banning any book with a moral message.

My parents don’t believe in hunting. So why didn’t they storm my fourth grade teacher’s classroom when she read us Where the Red Fern Grows?

I can tell you why: Because reading about something you don’t support or that goes against your family’s values isn’t indoctrination. Dictating what other people’s kids should read is.

A glimpse into how few facts (if any) some schools need to ban books​

I’m genuinely horrified that a place that alleges to teach children how to read and think critically got this form, reviewed it, and gave credence to it.
I’m just as worried about this school as I am this woman.

What can we do?​

Join forces.​

Gorman recommends donating to PEN, a group that advocates for “free expression, defend writers and artists at risk around the globe, and f[ights] censorship in the United States and abroad.”

Get informed.​

Ask to review the complaint forms for banned books in your district, and raise hell if they’re as bonkers as this one.

Buy her book.​

Though Gorman herself didn’t ask for this, I think one of the best things we can do for banned authors is create a wave of new readership. Buy several and place copies in the Little Libraries around your city for good measure.
Especially if you live in Miami-Dade County.

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[IM2]

High school graduates are not proficient in core classes like math and english (e.g. they can't do it), what makes you think they would care about history?

These excuses are not acceptable.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I did not know Texas or Florida banned black history. When did they do it? A link to the story of banning black history in public schools would do fine, if you can find it.

Here's one example
This is why they are BANNING black history in schools..

 

[IM2]

Ya know the only reason a lot of people give you shit,including myself,is you're a pompous ass with a large helping of racism thrown in.
You're gonna get treated the same way you treat others.
So while I dont expect you to change you can expect me to do the same.

Funny you say this because there happen to be whites here I get along with very well. The fact is that you are a racist and you cannot deal with blacks, women or other people of color who do not say what your insecurity needs you to hear.

 

[IM2]

The very definition of "black history" is RACIST. The very people supposedly touting black accomplishment seeking acceptance are driving its own separateness. How do you ban black history when it would just be part of American History? Do they put Polish Americans in separate books? German Americans? French? English? Latin? Japanese, Chinese or Russian?

THEN WHY WOULD BLACKS BE SINGLED OUT IN THEIR OWN BOOKS to be banned, unless you WANTED to perpetuate the perception of separateness? Are schools literally TEARING THE PAGES out of books that have black people in them achieving notable things?

And if so, then why have I heard of George Washington Carver? I mean, isn't he one of the greatest success stories of black history? Why isn't he banned?

How do blacks like IM2 expect to ever shed the racist domicile of theirs demanding INCLUSION and non-racism while they continue their mad campaign to maintain their racially-driven SEPARATENESS?

No, it's not racist. American hitory has been white history. It has not included the accomplishments of othrrs equally and completely and THAT is because of racism. Cultural incompetence does not allow you to understand this. It is not about singling out. It is about being included in totally.

 

[IM2]

Don't base your opinion of colored people on the antics of Blm/antifa and IM2. There ARE MORE law abiding america loving normal black people out there than these racist bellyachers. Don't forget that. Don't let the gov't divide us anymore than we are.

Where do whites like you get the idea that being normal is accepting your racism? You are the racist, not me. America stays divided because of people like you, not me.