What's next? Where are they going with this?
A Florida teacher shared the Civics curriculum they now have to teach. The history of slavery in America is being white washed and the atrocities minimized.
Where will it end? Will they eventually wash it completely out of history?
The brutal and inhumane treatment of the people who helped build this nation from its infancy with their blood, sweat, sorrow, and anguished tears...is being white washed and minimized.
And this is ok? For a lot of people, yes, it is. They want it buried. They want to be comfortable in their actions--whatever those actions may be.
With the way things are going now, our schools may eventually be teaching something like the following:
* Nobody was forced to come to America, they volunteered.
* They didn't mind being chained and packed into ships like sardines because that made room for more of their family to come with them.
* And those chains? Those were just accessories.
* The forced illiteracy? They didn't want the workers to be mentally stressed out trying to learn new things.
* The slave price? Yes, money changed hands but it showed how highly the individual was regarded.
* And Massah? There wasn't a master/slave relationship. Everyone was equal with different accepted roles that all worked together for the greater good of America.
* Whippings? They asked Massah and the Ovaseeah to beat them because it meant they were getting attention from the boss. Crippling and disfiguring blows meant they got a LOT of the attention they wanted.
* The female rapes? Well, the boss (his relative, family friend, or overseer) thought they were cute and wanted them to have their babies.
For those of you who are comfortable believing they never mated with their slaves, I have over a hundred white DNA matches that map back to one white man so...
* The male rapes? I have no idea how they'll rewrite the homosexual "breaking" of the male slaves. It's been written that after they were broken, they had to broadcast their shame to everyone by sagging their pants low around their hips. This also let the perpetrators know who had already been broken for future attacks.
* Separating the families? They were merely being taught how to be independent in their new nation.
* Slavery? What slavery? It never existed.
All of this is ugly, but it happened. It’s a shameful part of the history of our nation and my people.
Do I want schools to teach shame and guilt? NO!
I want schools to teach true and complete historical facts. The good, the bad, and the ugly for only then will there be higher odds of the ugly history never repeating itself.
