you'll see why I quoted you in this with time.
Gorfias coming in hot with this. No, you can not have it your way in terms of facts of the matter.I think this discussion is leading to a bigger problem with big government in general. The bigger they are, the more say they have in matters you may consider personal. I don't think the Fed will try to impose anything on local schools by force. They'll just withhold funds you already paid into that the school needs.
So now, we have schools that respond oddly to students displaying a "blue lives matter" flag on the one hand, and an erasure of US sins on the other.
Big Government aint Burger King. You can't have it your way.
This is the same bullshit they were tried to pull with the Holocaust, but too many granddads fought and/or died in WWII to allow it to happen. WWII and winning the war was something that America still feels proud of today. The great liberators who sent millions of their sons and blood to make sure the evil of the Nazis were halted. I remember being taught that in school. And I remembered being so proud to be American.
But then you find out the truth. That Americans were so divided that there wouldn't have even been an American aspect to the war if it wasn't for Pearl Harbor. I even remember learning about that in college and having three other students not being able to accept that because of what their grandfathers did and how if that were true, everyone would have told them that before.
Here's the Eventual End Game.
"Africans were indentured servants/immigrants who were provided food and housing for their work on the land".
That sounds fine. But then that leads to questions. How come the blacks say there were stolen from their land? My text book just told me they came willingly. My teacher taught me that too. Who do I listen to? A lot of people my family trusts tells me that you can't believe Blacks because they are lazy and they lie about their condition so they don't have to do as much work as we do. And again, they couldn't teach me a lie. So I guess I don't trust black people.
Point of fact, they were never called 'indentured servants or immigrants. What did the people of that time call them?
Ahh, yes. Good reminder.
If one get to choose the past, then one can dictate the present. Blacks go from a people sold into bondage, mistreated, raped, culture destroyed, treated like subhuman filth, hung and killed for no reason sometimes, families broken apart, robbed of education or an ability to improve on one's standing save for an ordeal that might mean their death... to a people who came here on a contract and seemingly didn't better themselves afterwards.
No person on this planet gets to have a personal opinion about that. That is fact. That is what was done to my people. And to not want to accept that is unacceptable. To not want to teach that because it makes you feel some sort of way about your own roots denies and erodes my roots. My identity and my lot of life.
And yes, Hawki. This is the only reason why I added you into this post. This is why identity politics is a thing. The past is literally being re-wrote in efforts to make one side feel better, and negate any wrong done to the other.
You keep saying you don't have a dog in the fight, but if you are tired of identity politics, you better find one. Because all this does is draw the lines in deeper and make people grab more weapons because they are being attacked. You do not tell the oppressed to relax and stop worrying about it, you tell those in charge to quit it so everyone can live their own damn lives.