This is why I don’t understand the people who say we can’t tear down racist statues because of ThE HiStOrY.
They already whitewashed most of history that we know and edited us out of it anyway, but nobody seemed to care about that history when they were putting up them statues in the first place. Tear them ALL down.
One of my old coworkers from Alabama wasn't taught about the Japanese-Internment during WWII. It only came up because she noticed that a lot of Japanese-Americans she met didn't speak Japanese, and asked me why. At first I could tell she didn't really believe me, but the more I talked about my families experience through it [ and how my grandma almost started a riot in the camps ] she became more and more horrified.
After the war was over, my grandma went to college in Illinois and was asked by one of her professors to talk about her experience during the war, and a majority of her classmates straight up called her liar.
Realizing how white washed our history education is, is just plain disheartening
breakingthebig on June 21st, 2020 at 20:19 UTC »
This is why I don’t understand the people who say we can’t tear down racist statues because of ThE HiStOrY.
They already whitewashed most of history that we know and edited us out of it anyway, but nobody seemed to care about that history when they were putting up them statues in the first place. Tear them ALL down.
Ayy_2_Brute on June 21st, 2020 at 20:21 UTC »
I had to take Afro-American studies to learn that there was another Booker T and he wasn't a WWF wrestler.
IndieHamster on June 21st, 2020 at 20:51 UTC »
One of my old coworkers from Alabama wasn't taught about the Japanese-Internment during WWII. It only came up because she noticed that a lot of Japanese-Americans she met didn't speak Japanese, and asked me why. At first I could tell she didn't really believe me, but the more I talked about my families experience through it [ and how my grandma almost started a riot in the camps ] she became more and more horrified.
After the war was over, my grandma went to college in Illinois and was asked by one of her professors to talk about her experience during the war, and a majority of her classmates straight up called her liar.
Realizing how white washed our history education is, is just plain disheartening