Posted on 07/23/2020 4:18:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Albert Broussard's intention to capitalize one letter in one word may impact millions of children around the US and how they learn about race.
Broussard, a longtime history textbook writer for McGraw Hill and a history professor at Texas A&M University, is planning to capitalize the b in Black in a lengthy revision to a history textbook used in American middle and high schools. His revisions are happening as civil unrest grips the nation and while experts argue that change is needed in how Black history is taught in the US.
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I got a bunch of words synonymous for black that I can capitalize here :-)
Of course I would be banned until forever but I still have a list :-)
Rather that then African American. They are not African.
So now the proper reference is black again, instead of A-A? It’s all so confusing.
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America-hating, Marxist teachers aren't the only problem.
Ping
It’s fascinating how language evolves. Wondering how “African American” will stand as this unfolds.
My daughter’s5th grade text book had a whole chapter on the black panthers and only 2 pages on the civil war.
You called them "Colored", Negro, and several bastardizations of Negro. Using the "N" word was about the only thing worse than calling them "Black", especially the older folks.
Nor are they “black”
We MUST get conservatives onto Boards of Education everywhere. Selection of good school administrators and review of text books is of utmost importance.
A black history month is a stretch in itself.
America’s africans need to assimilate in their heads.
The people in this Country have got it made. .... if you don’t like it leave it’ ought to be played to these blm atifa stirred rioters in stereo.
Minority reference du jour ...
A while back I was listening to a local talk radio show when a caller identified herself as an AA and then complained that she did not like the radio host using the term ‘Negro’.
SMH ...
Depending on who you ask there are about 8 different learning styles. Only a small percentage of students actually learn anything by reading the textbook. These students typically have white or yellow skin, not brown or black. For many in the black community, textbooks are a big “who cares?” and “what a total waste of money”.
That will fix everything that ails black culture.
There should be no pro-noun before AMERICAN. NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP EITHER.
Broussard is as much of an agitator as he is a textbook writer. I’m hoping the schools have a wide choice of sourcing when they buy textbooks, & they need not purchase this kind of crap.
For sure. If you google "black culture" (*) you get directed to a Wikipedia page full of wonderful references. However, it appears the elements of "black culture" described on that page have little to do with the reality of today's destructive urban culture. I know, I shouldn't conflate the two, but they are hard to separate in today's environment.
Even more disconnected from reality than the Wikipedia page are the portrayals of modern life for minorities in America. Listening to the MSM, talking heads, and rioters' "leaders" you'd think statues were leaping down off their pedestals to beat-down minorities. That team/company/product names and advertising brought tears to their eyes on a daily basis. Or that there were weekly lynchings and bodies routinely swinging from lamp-posts. To hear them tell it, it is nearly unbearable to merely exist here. No wonder they can't breath.
Never mind that today's street-level "black culture" is mostly identified with things that are not paths to long, happy, successful lives. If black lives mattered, the first thing to go shouldn't be statues, but "black culture" as it is today. I'm sure somewhere in there are some elements of real culture that are positive influences. Somewhere.
Black ants and red ants I guess it matters to someone.
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