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re: Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum

Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:48 am to
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112600 posts
Posted on 2/7/21 at 11:48 am to
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If they would just incorporate the true history of blacks into the nation’s overall history and not politicize it,


Have any of you people seen a modern US history book for HS students? I flipped through one last year. There was the usual stuff about the Tuskegee airmen and the guy who invented the stop sign (although he copied it from the British). But the amazing thing was the quota they set for women.
Holy hell, I never heard of half of these women and when I checked their bio I realized why. They didn't do shite.

'Lucy McNulty invented the potholder glove that has an attachment for a dish rag.'
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28139 posts
Posted on 2/7/21 at 12:10 pm to
True story: During Black History Month one year, a guy that worked with me, asked me " Have you ever heard of Dr. Charles Drew?" I told him, "that's the doctor that invented the process of separating plasma from blood to make it more storable and useable. He was a Black guy." First, he was shocked that I knew that bit of trivia, then he wanted to know how I had known that? I told him that I had learned about that in 5th or 6th grade, that would have been around 1970. He called me every kind of liar, and said that schools didn't teach things like that about Black people. I just told him that he must not have been a very good student. He refused to believe that I had learned that in school.
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