07-31-2023, 03:17 PM
(07-31-2023, 02:41 PM)Dill Wrote: Why are you assuming the later insertions into the curriculum were "clarifications"?
Nothing is "clarified" by adding that slaves may have learned some skills under slavery.
Nor is anything clarified by adding that some blacks may have killed some whites during a white massacre of blacks.
Why would you do that, unless you were trying to block any lessons that might be learned from recognizing how
racism continued to operate even after the war?
As I mentioned in a previous post, there are people who feel "blamed" by accurate history of slavery.
They mitigate this by reminding everyone that "whites" weren't the only ones who had slaves--as if anyone were arguing that.
What you are calling "clarifications" appear to be additions that all go in this direction over the objections of historians.
It's not like committee members were all going over the Tulsa Race Massacre and then some historian said --Oh wait, we forgot to add that one
Black guy killed a white guy in self defense as hundreds were slaughtered and their homes burnt." What would that "clarify"?
Courses on WWII often cover the Warsaw uprising. The point of teaching that is to show that oppression of others based on racial
distinction is bad. We don't want to do that again. What would be "clarified" if we add that Jews learned fighting skills
in the Ghetto and that, when it came to killing, "both sides" had blood on their hands? Rather, something is BLURRED.
Some still subscribe to the notion that slavery was not all that bad. The ante-bellum South was a happy, organic society.
They want people to stop harping on all the negatives, the beating, rape, stolen children and stolen labor. The additions
appear sympathetic to this point of view. Hence the outrage--about blurring, not clarification.
I think the difference between you and I is you seemingly want to see malicious intent....whereas, based on a tremendous amount of experience, I'm offering a rather simple explanation.
People hellbent on seeing evil are always gonna find ways to spin it that way. I prefer to just not assume the worst of everything that doesn't meet my ideologies.
If you want to go through life just being mad at the world (not you personally) then fine, but this, to me, is what some on this board would call a "nothingburger"...but since it's Florida, we'll virtue signal to our death.
