[henkster]

I think most kids would be cool with that. What would it take, all of 24 minutes?

[annieokie]

that about how long it would take some today to find Africa on the map. That’s all you need to know.

[SkyDancer]

Actually there are five or six relatively unknown Black’s who’ve either discovered or invented things not commonly known. I’ve hit several Black people with that when they gave me a hard time of not knowing Black history. They didn’t know it themselves.

[RitaOK]

That’s what I was thinking. Half that 24 minutes would be the trip over here and the other half would be bitching about not getting a free ride since.

[StAnDeliver]

"I think most kids would be cool with that. What would it take, all of 24 minutes?"

"OOOHHHhhhhh!"

[NKP_Vet]

Name one one invention of a black person in American history?
Not saying they don’t exist. But I just don’t recall any.

[RipSawyer]

“I think most kids would be cool with that. What would it take, all of 24 minutes?”
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I think they should learn white history first, as it stands they don’t seem to learn much of any kind of history other than fake history. I say again that the recent graduates of our local university here who majored in history could not pass an eighth grade history final from my public school days. I know this from talking to some of them. How on Earth can someone hold a degree with a history major and never have heard of the battle of Hastings or the Magna Charta, not know when the American civil war was fought, not know anything about the revolutionary war, not even what country we revolted against, know virtually nothing about WWI, WWII etc.? They spend years attending classes and forgo years of earnings while running up student loan debt and don’t know the first thing about their major. What on Earth is all this about? When I who never went to a college or university remember more of history from grade school classes than these graduates even know how to look up (how could you look up information on a subject like the battle of Hastings if you have never heard of it) something is woefully wrong in this country.