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  • Black History Month: Why not teach about Arab-Muslim slavers? Larry Elder presents realities about Africans transported and sold in Mideast ... for centuries

    02/20/2020 8:55:58 AM PST · by rktman · 37 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 2/19/2020 | Larry Elder
    As for America's annual Black History Month, actor Morgan Freeman spoke for many during this 2005 exchange with CBS's Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes": Wallace: "Black History Month, you find …" Freeman: "Ridiculous." Wallace: "Why?" Freeman: "You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Wallace: "Come on." Freeman: "What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on; tell me." Freeman: "Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know...
  • 14 Historical 'Facts' That Are Completely False

    11/19/2013 4:45:19 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 85 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 11/19/2013 | CHRISTINA STERBENZ
    Blame Hollywood, the media, and even history teachers for perpetuating certain totally ridiculous or unfounded "facts" about history. We're here to debunk some of the biggest myths. 1. Jewish slaves didn't build the pyramids. This popular myth reportedly stems from comments made by former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin when visiting Egypt in 1977, according to Amihai Mazar, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn't exist at the period when the pyramids were built," Mazar told the AP. Recent archaeological finds actually show that Egyptians built the pyramids themselves. "The myth of...