The older you get, the more bullshit will be revealed
You were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too.
I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.
It certainly was shocking to find an active ongoing eugenics program was still active in the 1970’s.
The reality of people existing in active oppression by the US government is absolutely not the impression that I got.
I’m pretty sure Indigenous women are still being sterilized without their knowledge or consent during births or other medical procedures in parts of the US and Canada.
Have any examples?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit closest I find find in 5 minutes
Another quick search https://www.nccih.ca/docs/child and youth/FS-Forced-sterilization-EN-Web.pdf
Just Google “forced sterilization of indigenous women” https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d
Clearly still happening recently in Canada, how about the US?
Y𝖾s, including in the Unit𝖾d Stat𝖾s. Quick s𝖾arch𝖾s pull up many r𝖾sults, both on indig𝖾nous p𝖾opl𝖾s and on many oth𝖾rs including migrants in ICE d𝖾t𝖾ntion.
Example 1 - Indigenous Peoples Here’s a link that claims “From 1907 until as recently as 2018, tens of thousands of Native women underwent tubal ligation”: [Link](https://nativenewsonline.net/health/stolen-generations-new-mexico-takes-historic-step-to-address-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women/)
Example 2 - Migrants Here’s a summary link of prior/current cases. “On September 14, 2020, nurse Dawn Wooten filed a whistleblower complaint . . . Wooten said that nearly every [detained migrant] woman who went to see a doctor was told she had to undergo a hysterectomy.”: [Link](https://www.niwrc.org/restoration-magazine/november-2020/past-and-current-united-states-policies-forced-sterilization)
More summaries with sources cited. Some were court & judge approved coercion. “As recently as May 2017, Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order that offered misdemeanor offenders 30-day sentence reductions if they underwent either a vasectomy or a birth control implant [16].” “Between 2005 and 2013, 144 women were coerced into sterilization in California [19].” [Link](https://www.texasulj.org/post/three-generations-of-imbeciles-past-and-present-coercive-sterilization-in-the-u-s)
In the same vein as the first comment, you were also likely taught that slavery ended in the 19th century with the end of the Civil War.
I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.
She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)
Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.
And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…
Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.
(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(
Same. Except for the Japanese Internment Camps…which was covered in English Lit for some reason.
As far as my high school history curriculum went, Asia , South America, and most of Africa simply did not exist. Africa only got mentioned for Egypt and slave-trade. South America because of the conquistadors and stopping there.
The only thing I am glad my US Public School education gave me were a few history teachers who directly talked about politics, activism, and repeatedly getting arrested for protesting the School of the Americas.
Mine connected history with current events and heck I took a class called current affairs.
Born around 2000 here: My high-school history class got to 1945 and that was the end.
Born around 1985 here and…same.
I think the biggest disservice regarding the Civil Rights era is talking up MLK every year…and not once mentioning Malcom X or the Black Panthers.
MLK would have accomplished nothing if the alternative wasn’t them.
It paints the picture that hippies and marches are all that’s needed. It’s not. The oppressors need to feel unsafe.
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Yeah, it’s interesting that the curriculum starts by portraying the American revolution as a just and righteous war, with ragtag bands of freedom fighters going up against a brutal and overwhelmingly powerful oppressor… And then as soon as the revolution is concluded, the messaging takes a hard turn to “but also violence is never okay and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to instigate change!”
In the chapters about the civil rights era, Malcom X and the Black Panthers were barely mentioned in a footnote. And only really as a “oh also not all people were peaceful, and that violence only hurt the protestors’ message” warning.
And the sad part is that the propaganda works. Every time some politically-charged violence happens, you inevitably have people in the comments chanting about how violence is never the answer, and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to change things.
Malcolm X wasn’t the violent revolutionary that teenage edgelords have made him out to be.
Fuck, if anything, MLK was more radical because he advocated breaking the law. Malcolm X didn’t. He just believed in self-defense.
People denigrating the legacy and accomplishments of MLK are fucking sickening.
I remember in high school social studies, civil rights essentially “concluded” with the death of civil rights leaders. I had a great teacher who tried to include queer rights until the lesson and I am so grateful to her for helping us understand that civil rights includes the the disabled community
isnt there a rule against politics in this community? It even lists a different community you could post in instead
Get lost. This is relevant.
I think about this every god damn day
They didn’t even mention Black Panthers… meanwhile, BP should get more credit than MLK and Malcolm X together.
They weren’t “peaceful protestors”, so not even brought up.
That was a long ago, has anyone here been taught differently? My school was shit (obviously)
I was homeschooled for the first decade of my life. Specifically, I visited the city’s library and took back books to my rural homestead. Larry Gonick made a long running series of history books, and the United States entry certainly mentions the unsavory aspects of America.
Larry Gonick drew heavily from A People’s History of The United States, to his credit. I gave these to all the kids in the family.
If you haven’t read The Cartoon History of The Universe, I cannot recommend it enough.
Got the whole series, plus some other ones about other topics, like chemistry and sex. About the only downside of Gonick’s work, is that the older volumes are a bit dated - the archaeology and whatnot starts from about the 80’s or thereabouts.
Wish I was a billionaire, so that I could commission remakes and an animated series for all to freely partake in.
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Speaking of comics, there are assorted manga that tackle the sciences or historical eras. For example, ‘The Manga Guide to the Universe’, which covers stellar phenomena, how to calculate distances, and so forth. Bride’s Story is a slice of life about a steppe people - roughly in Mongolia, I think. Practices for marriage, how to bleed out an animal, and more are presented. Meanwhile, ‘Spice and Wolf’ is about mercantile economics for Medieval Europe, such as currency debasing.
Manga is very good for pairing a slice-of-life narrative alongside education.
heh yeah - his Cartoon Guide to the Computer actually has one of the best explanations of how basic circuts are translated into boolean logic of ANY source out there, still.
I loved these books so much when I was a kid!
Definitely read the book This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed.
Non-violence by the SCPP is now treated as not only their only tactic, but the only valid tactic ever. But that’s historically just not true. Even Dr. King and others realized that their tactic of non-violence was working with other groups who were not pledged to non-violence - and in the setting where the US was worried about its image versus the USSR in the third world. Nor was it the primary driver of what limited success the movement had.
people either had shit schools or didnt pay attention in history class
Both 😉
My history teacher put on videos and slept off a hangover at his desk more often than teaching us actual history
The public school system was sort of ultimately designed to make good little obedient factory line workers. Not a surprise at all, they want you to think it’s a thing of the past and get complacent. How do you think we got where we are today?
That’s why they always showed photos in black and white. It wouldn’t do to remind people that this was very recent, historically speaking.
This really suits henfredemars’s comment
Your public school taught you about the civil rights movement? Damn, that’s a good school.
