The Powers Who Control our Education System are THE Problem

I teach world history to 12th graders in Louisiana, and I promise you I teach it with a conservative right wing narrative. Its the east and west coast that are liberal, as well as the big cities.

There are reports of teachers in these places, teaching the children that Lincoln was a Democrat and the KKK was created by the Republicans. If it is true or not IDK, but I wouldn't doubt it either.

As far as slavery goes, I teach the triangular trade and how the African kings have more of the blame for slavery in the Americas than the Europeans. It blows my students minds, that Africans were selling other defeated Africans to the Europeans for guns etc so that they could take over more Africans and sale them as well.

I always get questions about, "why dont I teach about the civil rights, or black history month." I just tell those students that this is world history and, the world dosnt care about american problems such as that.

I went through part of my CPO initiation in Yorktown, Virginia, which included a trip to the Yorktown Battlefield. You would be (or maybe not) surprised how many of my fellow selects had no clue about the significance of Yorktown. One woman's excuse was "I'm from California. They don't teach that stuff there."

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and how the African kings have more of the blame for slavery in the Americas than the Europeans.

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Eeeeeehhhh. But the African kings didn't choose to use slavery to support agriculture. I get your point and I don't believe in demonizing Europeans or Whites (especially not present day ones) for slavery but that's teaching an opinion.

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Eeeeeehhhh. But the African kings didn't choose to use slavery to support agriculture. I get your point and I don't believe in demonizing Europeans or Whites (especially not present day ones) for slavery but that's teaching an opinion.

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Actually, Im teaching the book, and this is what the book teaches. In addition, this is also what my professors in college also taught.

I wasnt saying that Europeans were not at fault for buying slaves, but it would have been almost impossible for the Europeans to do so. During this time, Europeans did not venture in to the interior of Africa. The knew that they would not make it out. It was the African kings who brought the slaves to port for the Europeans to buy.

Eventually, some African Kings such as King Afonso I of the Kongo, begged to other African and European kings to stop slavery because it was destroying African culture and heritage as well as entire tribes being completely wiped out. But, by this time it was to big of an industry to stop it.

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I always get questions about, "why dont I teach about the civil rights, or black history month." I just tell those students that this is world history and, the world dosnt care about american problems such as that.

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You may want to start your own business, you could start a business teaching remedial World History for indoctrinated Prog Drones.

Well, my daughter came in yesterday afternoon and informed me that the ancient Egyptians were "black" and the slaves they owned were "white"... Of course this led to the discussion of that not "exactly" being the case and how the ancient Egyptians were actually more Levant (Middle Eastern) and the "slaves" were the Israelites (and others) who were also more "middle eastern" than "white"... And even more discussion about how limited travel was during that time, etc, etc, etc...

Just when you think you have a clear grasp on history... BAM...

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Well, my daughter came in yesterday afternoon and informed me that the ancient Egyptians were "black" and the slaves they owned were "white"... Of course this led to the discussion of that not "exactly" being the case and how the ancient Egyptians were actually more Levant (Middle Eastern) and the "slaves" were the Israelites (and others) who were also more "middle eastern" than "white"... And even more discussion about how limited travel was during that time, etc, etc, etc...

Just when you think you have a clear grasp on history... BAM.

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HAHA, yea her history teacher is either green, an idiot, or does not have a degree in social studies or social studies education.

That is a big issue in our public education. No one wants to go to school to be a teacher anymore, so many of our teachers have liberal arts degrees and couldnt find a job doing anything else. So they take a 15 week program to get certified and then they are thrown into a classroom with a book and told "good luck" like off of the movie "Taken."

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I'm sure the book teaches that Africans traded other Africans. That's certainly fact and the slave trade boomed as a result of that.

But at the end of the day, Europeans got labor as a result of the African market. How they chose to utilize that labor was entirely their decision. Could have been slavery. Could have been indentured servitude. The former was chosen in the majority of cases, and I think it's hard to argue the African Kings were responsible for that decision.

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No one said that the African Kings were to blame for Europeans using the purchased Africans as slaves. But, if it wasnt for the African kings, there would not have been much of a slave trade at all.

The Europeans were not going to go looking for the slaves in the interior of Africa, they were not stupid. But, presented with a cheap and valuable resource, the Europeans used it to their advantage.

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The Powers Who Control our Education System are THE Problem
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No one said that the African Kings were to blame for Europeans using the purchased Africans as slaves. But, if it wasnt for the African kings, there would not have been much of a slave trade at all.


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and how the African kings have more of the blame for slavery in the Americas than the Europeans.


You didn't say African Kings were more responsible for the flourishing of the slave trade. You said African Kings were more responsible for slavery in the Americas. That's why I challenged your OP.

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OK so you didnt read between the lines. I didnt say that the African kings went to the Europeans and said "hey, why dont you buy these captured people from us and ship them to the Americans for $$."

What I meant by what I said, is that Without the Africans, the Europeans would not have had slaves to send to the Americas. So yea they have more to blame because they were the ones capturing, rounding up and selling them to the Europeans who other wise wouldn't have had the salves in the first place to ship to the Americas.

I pretty much said that the African kings were responsible for the flourishing of the slave trade in my own words while also adding the consequences of their actions of doing so which equaled slavery in the Americas.