K-12 History Curriculum Endorses Slavery Reparations

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 2/12/03 | Michael L. Betsch

[raybbr]

...is part of the elite group of African-American scholars...

Who defines them as elite? Also, I do not acknowledge the term African-American unless they have dual citizenship with some African country. I think that every black person, who was born here in the U.S.of A. is an American. If they choose to use the A-A designation then it is clear they do not consider themselves Americans.

A lot of African-American kids have no idea of their culture. They have no idea what part of Africa they came from,"

They are Americans. That is their culture. If they want to celebrate living in grass huts then they can easily go back to Africa where cultural and social developement is a century behind the rest of the world.

"Teaching of the young starts very early," Smith said. "You cannot wait until a child's in seventh or eighth grade and then try to teach them about their history."

In other words, "Start the victimization doctrine as early as possible and they will spend the rest of their lives working the system to get monies from the government (self-loathing, self-made-guilty rich white people).

God, I hate this issue. Nothing is going to divide this country more than this push for reparations. The push for imaginary diversity has done a great job so far. However, it is nothing compared to the ruin that reparations will cause.

[leadpenny]

Bump your comments but what is meant by the term "imaginary diversity?"

[FreedomPoster]

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[libertylover]

"They have no idea what part of Africa they came from..."

I have no idea what part of Europe I came from and I don't care. It doesn't matter. I am an American. Period.

[Rodney King]

"If they know where they came from, in terms of their culture, then they'll know where they are presently."

What would that possibly tell them about their present selves of culture?

[Rodney King]

noting that he traced his own roots back to a "great empire" in Africa that existed more than 400 years ago

Good Lord, the man is delusional.

[raybbr]

I guess I wasn't clear. Should have wrote the "imaginary need for diversity in all facets of our lives".

This current claim tha "diversity enriches our lives" is a lot of hogspit. Our country is full of diversity. Why can't those who seek it be allowed to, and those who don't feel the need for it, be allowed to congregate with whom they want? It's all a farce. Diversity in its current context forces people to focus on what makes us different. This naturally causes animosity.

Think about this; under president Reagan, while there was still some detractors, he focused on the fact that we are all Americans and we should be proud of that fact. We had the most patriotic non-war period in the last 50 years. What happened to that? It was destroyed by the "imaginary need for diversity". Since this push began we have never been more divided as a country. Everyone is focusing on their own little self-defined group and to Hades with the nation a whole.

In the recent discussions regarding the admissions practices at the University of Michigan, we heard, ad nauseum about how diversity makes the learning experience better. How? Does the fact that a white student is sitting next to a black student make them both learn math better. If so, how? The only place I could see diversity enhancing learning would be in a social studies class. And, we all know that all subjects in college today are predicated on the fact that social construct is the root of all learning. OMG, just writing that makes we want to spit up.

We, as nation, had better get back to the notion that we are one people or the end comes soon.

"E Pluribu Unum" means "One out of many" not "every man for himself".

[mhking]

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[Rodney King]

"But what both sides did after the Civil War was over, both in places like New York as well as in the South, is that they took that land," he said. "In places where there [were] promises made, promises [were] never kept."

That darn confederacy. We're glad they lost and don't have the power to keep promises, but we sure wish they had the power to keep promises.

[Rodney King]

According to Smith, racism has historically prevented African-Americans from being compensated for all of the pain and suffering that their ancestors endured.

No, the rule of law, and the "liberal" concept that a man cannot be held liable for the crimes of others (like in Africa) is.

[aardvark1]

The fact that someone has black skin means that at some point, someone in the ancestral line lived in Africa. This has as much relationship to a person's current life as the fact that my name reveals European ancestry. But because I was the youngest child in the family and my father married late and my mother's parents died early, I didn't even know my grandparents let alone European ancestors from 300 years ago. I don't see how those ancestors define who I am in 21st Century America.

[leadpenny]

Whatever button I pushed I'm glad I pushed it. I was happy to read more. Thank you.

[Rodney King]

Smith compared the suffering and deaths of African-American slaves to the atrocities Jews suffered at the hands of Hitler during World War II

Now, I don't mean this as an offense to andy African Americans, but you would think that the last thing that an African-American educator would want to do is to appear to be smoking crack.

[Adder]

"Civilization itself started in Africa and it worked its way to this part of the world, but most African-Americans as well as white Americans don't know that," he said. "No matter how much we try to disprove that reality, it always comes back to the fact that civilization did start in Africa and then spread out throughout the rest of the planet.""
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What an absolute lie! Civilization didn't start in Africa. Man evolved in Africa. Thats a huge difference!
I still contend that simply because the geography of the place of origin was africa, one cannot therefore assume that early man was black. Skin color may have evolved AFTER the dispersion of the species from Africa. It makes little sense that a hair covered creature would also have black skin...in fact very few do[see chimpanzes for example].
I cannot stand that this sort of supposition is passing for knowlege. The so-called African empires exist only in the minds of the "elite scholars". Collections of mud huts and leftover oral traditions do not pass for empires. There is no writing or some form of communication such as knotted ropes that I am aware of, surely an indicator of civilization in that every "empire" that I am aware of had writing or communication...even the nomadic empire of the Mongols had writing. Understand I am talking about their contentions and pretensions of "Empire", not culture.
Its a sorry state of affairs when these people with no evidence, no facts are given positions like secular priests establishing a religion based on some crypto-mysto faith to lie to a generation. AND they want the taxpayer to fund this boolsheet.
This is a total and complete OUTRAGE!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Agreed and Amen.

[raybbr]

Thanks for your comments. This issue riles me to no end. My grandparents came from Poland. Why should I have to pay any of my hard earned dollars to support ghosts? Because that's who would get the reparations. There are no living ex-slaves in America today.

[RightOnline]

This has nothing whatsoever to do with "teaching". This is about "propaganda". This so-called curriculum is designed to do one thing and one thing only: drive a bigger wedge between blacks and whites. Period.

Way to go, guys. Get 'em while they're young, eh?

[leadpenny]

Why should I have to pay any of my hard earned dollars to support ghosts?

That is the way I feel about my tax dollars being used to support the so-called, "Historical Black Colleges." IMO, they are just an extension of this proposed K-12 Curriculum.

[ricpic]

The name of the game: Keep the pot boiling.