K-12 History Curriculum Endorses Slavery Reparations

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

[Chad Fairbanks]

Welcome to FreeRepublic. Someone is going to say something about paragraphs. I won't :)

[lodwick]

Shine this.

[SteamShovel]

Excellent points.

My big question to the race baiters is, if my entire white family came over AFTER US slavery from a Europe that held my ancestors as peasants or "slaves of the feifdom", then why should I owe a dime to anybody? By the same arguments, anybody who has bloodlines that go back to the fiefs that held MY ancestors owes ME money. Horse Hockey

[SteamShovel]

And another thing, using the Public Schools to begin brainwashing the children is evil and wrong. This is an arguement for adults of TODAY not tomorrows adults after they have been brainwashed to "go along willingly"

[CtBigPat]

What they SHOULD be teaching black kids:

No one cares who your ancesters were or how badly they were treated. They care about who YOU are and, more importently, WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER. Pay attention in school so you will have much to offer.

Business is not about black and white. It is about making green. Be the person they want to hire-honest, hardworking, educated.

You are free because white people decided that slavery was wrong and because white people died so that you might be free. They still practice slavery in parts of Africa.

Anyone who claims that you are due "reparations" is trying to buy your support with the false promise of a fat check that will never come. Your reparations are the fact that you live in the greatest country in the world while those who's ancesters were not taken as slaves live in a third world hell-hole where half the population has AIDS and the average income is a dollar a day.

[concerned about politics]

I will preface this by saying that I am a black American Naval Officer and politically conservative and new FReeper since I went to CPAC and had the pleasure of meeting other FReepers.

Welcome aboard. Thank you for what you do for us here at home. My kids thank you, too.

[concerned about politics]

Also, if slavery was such a holocaust, why does really smart people like Walter Williams say that it was the BEST thing that ever happend to blacks in this country. Otherwise they'd still be in Africa....

The white ancestors struggled and died of starvation, disease and wars to settle this country in the first place. When do I get my check? :)

[Xthe17th]

... Both rely on federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support their educational efforts....AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!

He said it is important for African-American children to be able to trace their culture back to the African tribe that they are descended from, noting that he traced his own roots back to a "great empire" in Africa that existed more than 400 years ago. No, it's more important for children to recognize that they are AMERICANS and value the freedoms that they enjoy here. If this guy pines for the old days, let's help him relocate to his beloved Africa.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

But according to those who venerate their ancestors down south (the ancestors that established and fought for the Confederacy), maintenance of monuments, place names, and recollections of honor and derring-do are part of their culture and heritage. They bristle at any talk that the rebellion was in any way treason, and are quite emotional and vehement as to their honor. As long as that mindset continues, we will continue to see calls for reparations - because honoring the one necessarily implies disparagement of the other, and keeps the wounds of the following century of legal segregation (which only ended 40 years ago - in the lifetimes of many Americans of African descent) open.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

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.

Try several millenia.

[yoe]

Right on Warrior Nurse!

An elite group of anyone let alone this elite group of African-Americans has no place in The United States of America, a Republic – not a Democracy, is one of the first things that should be taught. That they use federal dollars should be questioned as should all grants that are used to keep racism alive.

The 14 Amendment section 4 of The United States Constitution explicitly says “...But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave: but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be null and void.

Holocaust: the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II Who does Dennis Smith, the Thomas Day Education Project, or National Endowment for the Humanities think they are? IMHO they are little more than belligerent spoilers who are criminally involved in the abuse of young children’s minds. The 'Let It Shine' program should be exposed for what it really is and not taught in your schools where ever you are!

[Warrior Nurse]

If we are going to teach the kid about history start with how corrupt leaders will destroy civilization. This has happened since time and memorial. Moral leadership is what is need the President is providing just that. I will take his Texas candor over an Arkansas used car saleman any day. At least he didn't grow up and work in a whorehouse in Hot Springs like a certian EX president.

What we need is good old fashioned discipline in the schools as well as involved parents. Some competition wouldn't hurt either. The DemocRATS are totaly anti-choice. They hate the flag, mommy and daddy, apple pie and dodgeball. They hate losing so everybody must win because it "feels good". A school where there are 17 valedectorians is pathetic. All they want are mind-numbed robots that can't think for themselves. I often joke that I became a conservative to get in touch with my inner whiteness. I thank God for my Scotch, Irish, African and Native American ancestors if it were not for the escape from tyranny I would not be here today.

Patton said it best "we are a nation of winners." "America hates to lose that is why we like the fastest runner best ball player. Hero's begat hero's so lets kill off the god*%$%ed cowards and we will be a nation of hero's".

[Indy Pendance]

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

I have no idea what part of the Ukraine my family came from. We need more teachings of the Ukraine in school. We need to be sensitive to every Ukrainian who fled the Bolshevek revolution, and to demand our heritage be taught in school. We were serfs and slaves too.

[Adder]

I can be swayed by arguments for the origin of Man in a place other than Africa. Still, even accepting an African point of origin does not confer black skin automatically as is being ASSUMED by those who argue for Africa.
Indeed, as you point out, the evolution of melanin as a skin protectant may have been a much later development instead of an early one.

[Xthe17th]

RE: "Civilization itself started in Africa and it worked its way to this part of the world..."
Mesopotamia is suppose to be the home of Adam and Eve...

I was about to make the same remark, but I think he's referring to civilization, as in cultivating crops, the Egyptians, Phoenecians, etc. and not the origins of man. Anyway, kinda Ironic that the Tigris and Euphrates is in IRAQ...uh, er, should that be the other way around considering the potential deadliness of the upcoming confrontation there.

[DLfromthedesert]

Clinton really exacerbated this problem with his "conversations on race".

Another big problem is the Justice Department re election laws that regard "community" as ethnic groups whose voting power cannot be "diluted".

We are a country of individuals with individual rights not "group" rights.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

The street corner hustlers are losing it. I believe the dream is now reality and that frightens them.

I agree that travel abroad is very enlightening. I am always glad to come home.

Thanks for your service.

[NativeSon]

As a descendant of a Native American, I hereby denounce the criminal misdeeds of the "Buffalo Soldiers," and I demand reparations from the "African-American" community!

I can't wait for "reparations" to be handed out because then it's our turn!

I got dibs on Manhattan and Arizona!!! Don't worry we'll give everyone plenty of time to pack up and get out... oh, and I got your beads...

[MomwithHope]

Thanks for your reply. Tell our troops we are behind them 200% - extra for the zeal factor.
I couldn't be Harriet Tubman without some dark makeup. ;))

[Texan5]

From the wife of a career Army Officer, thank you for your service to our country. I will leave for work feeling extra proud to be an American today. We all need to bring bulls**t like this to the attention to the appropriate people so they can close the purse strings. These people are delusional.

Should I be entitled to "reparations" from my Spanish relatives for having enslaved my Native American ancestors over 500 years ago? That would be the height of hypocracy, since I am the product of both. None of us are racially/ethnically "pure", unless we came directly from another country. I'd better not even HEAR of such a book being used here-I'll organize my very own protest.