I don’t buy this idea that kids will feel guilty for atrocities committed by people of their race centuries ago. If this is the justification for whitewashing history then it’s false.
I am *ashamed* of the bigotry of living while people who still use the N word, but I don’t feel *guilty* because I don’t do it. I certainly don’t feel asham…
I don’t buy this idea that kids will feel guilty for atrocities committed by people of their race centuries ago. If this is the justification for whitewashing history then it’s false.
I am *ashamed* of the bigotry of living while people who still use the N word, but I don’t feel *guilty* because I don’t do it. I certainly don’t feel ashamed of slavery; my family wasn’t even in the USA yet.
My only conviction here is that history should be accurately taught. Without regard for potential hurt feelings.
I think the problem is that some schools and teachers label white kids as oppressors and colonizers and Black kids as oppressed and that they are victims. These labels don't belong to modern children but to the people of the eras long past gone.
I don’t buy this idea that kids will feel guilty for atrocities committed by people of their race centuries ago. If this is the justification for whitewashing history then it’s false.
I am *ashamed* of the bigotry of living while people who still use the N word, but I don’t feel *guilty* because I don’t do it. I certainly don’t feel ashamed of slavery; my family wasn’t even in the USA yet.
My only conviction here is that history should be accurately taught. Without regard for potential hurt feelings.
I think the problem is that some schools and teachers label white kids as oppressors and colonizers and Black kids as oppressed and that they are victims. These labels don't belong to modern children but to the people of the eras long past gone.
They should just teach accurate history and drop the SJW shit.
Agreed.