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Why is American History split into Black and White?
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:40 pm
I contend history is history, just as time is time. Why is American History split into racial categories? This only perpetuates the chasm between the races.
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Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:41 pm to tigerpawl
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perpetuates the chasm between the races
You answered your own question
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:48 pm to tigerpawl
It’s all to bolster the “self-exteem” of people who’ve been taught they really don’t have a reason to have self-exteem.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:48 pm to tigerpawl
Frankly modern (or post-modern) thinking just isn't nuanced or well-rounded enough to handle these "tapestry" situations. Everything must be, pardon the pun, "black and white." Sure, some individuals can do it, but most discussions quickly devolve into tribalism "my team" versus "your team."
Hell, I do it and I'm one of the smartest motherfrickers I have ever met.
Hell, I do it and I'm one of the smartest motherfrickers I have ever met.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:49 pm to umrebel2009
Take down the Native American statues!
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:49 pm to tigerpawl
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This only perpetuates the chasm between the races.
This is a feature, not a bug.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:50 pm to tigerpawl
Because division is required for Democrats to have any platform to preach from.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:51 pm to tigerpawl
quote:answered this yourself...
Why is American History split into Black and White?
quote:A lot of people are benefitting politically, and financially from race division. It is the ultimate insult to thoes that sacrificed so much to end segregation. Yet... here we are. Shame.
perpetuates the chasm between the races.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:51 pm to tigerpawl
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just as time is time
Then, how do you explain… Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time!
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:52 pm to tigerpawl
It’s not just American history and they don’t want to split it. They want to claim it as their own by replacing white figures with black. The same thing is happening to world history. I had an argument just the other day with some idiot because they believed the Byzantines were black. And pagan 
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:53 pm to tigerpawl
False narrative made slavery into a white as owners and blacks as slaves but reality was whites, blacks and Native Americans all owned slaves.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:54 pm to tigerpawl
quote:That presumes there was a chasm in 21st century America.
This only perpetuates the chasm between the races.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:56 pm to tigerpawl
I don't remember history being split when I was in school. It was taught in linear fashion, including pre-Columbian native tribes, Europeans, and Africans, etc.
Seems like contemporary views are trying to (ahem) rewrite history in the way history has been taught for decades. Maybe it was taught differently prior to the civil rights movement, but that was a bit before my time.
Seems like contemporary views are trying to (ahem) rewrite history in the way history has been taught for decades. Maybe it was taught differently prior to the civil rights movement, but that was a bit before my time.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:57 pm to tigerpawl
Because they supposedly have their history, critical race theory, and then there is actual history.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:59 pm to tigerpawl
What’s so ironic about it is that if you only see things in black and white, then you’re colorblind. And colorblind is good I think.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 3:10 pm to tigerpawl
Because one group won't get the chip of their shoulder no matter how hard the other group works makes sure things change into the future.
Said group won't be happy until the other gets treated to the same level their ancestors did.
Find dictionary and look up...inferiority complex.
Said group won't be happy until the other gets treated to the same level their ancestors did.
Find dictionary and look up...inferiority complex.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 3:16 pm to KAGTASTIC
Ohhh and to add....then you have Marxists wanting to destroy our nation from with in, so they and the media take advantage of the inferiority complex and natural dramatic behavior attention whoring.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 3:18 pm to tigerpawl
It’s split into several different categories. Most are just temporal, some are event specific, and some are sub-disciplines that developed for very specific reasons.
History is always a contentious discipline, where popular history, which ends up being taught most often, isn’t really very accurate. People who aren’t involved in the discipline won’t see what could possibly be contentious about it, as I think in the popular imagination it exists as something inorganic, but the discipline of history is more than the recitation of facts.
History is always a contentious discipline, where popular history, which ends up being taught most often, isn’t really very accurate. People who aren’t involved in the discipline won’t see what could possibly be contentious about it, as I think in the popular imagination it exists as something inorganic, but the discipline of history is more than the recitation of facts.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 3:21 pm to NineLineBind
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It was taught in linear fashion, including pre-Columbian native tribes, Europeans, and Africans, etc.
That in of itself is a category though. Lightly touching on topics to get a broad survey is a specific method intended to cover as much ground in temporal terms as possible. It is also not optimal if you are actually interested in history.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 3:23 pm to tigerpawl
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I contend history is history, just as time is time. Why is American History split into racial categories? This only perpetuates the chasm between the races.
You are absolutely correct. All history is history regardless of the participants.
The problem has been that events relevant to the history of black persons in America have not made it into our traditional history books. As a result, a scholar has to look harder to find accurate history of black people. As a result of this special challenge, an entire area of study has developed to chronical and document events and persons that are not featured in traditional American history books.
It isn't complicated.
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