re: Help on this question in my daughter's AP US History class.

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"Protests which occurred in the United States during the summer of 2020 after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor can be partially blamed on the Founding Fathers' handling of the slavery question back in 1789.

Do you agree or disagree with the statement above? Justify."

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I disagree. I still believe the riots would have occurred even if slavery had ended 70 years earlier than it actually did. If 160 years isn't long enough to fix the problem then I doubt 230 years would be any better.

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"Protests which occurred in the United States during the summer of 2020 after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor can be partially blamed on the Founding Fathers' handling of the slavery question back in 1789.

Do you agree or disagree with the statement above? Justify."

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I don't necessarily think it's a bad question since it asks for why you think that way. The answer is no it has nothing to do with that - although if you want to be a major edgelord you could argue that it does because if slavery was still legal George Floyd wouldn't have been in public (or allowed to breath after holding a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach).

It's a good thing to ask people to be able to articulate why they believe something. Why is that a bad thing?

Tell her to do what she needs to do to pass the class. Which is placate the teacher. Give the canned leftist response. Get a good grade in the class. She will likely have to do this often in her remaining education.

The good news is it’s an easy answer guaranteed to get approval from the teacher.

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What do you all think

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First, state your general answer as yes, no, or somewhere in between.

Then support your answer by explaining how the issue of slavery was handled at the constitutional convention - demonstrating your knowledge of that singular event.

Then discuss how 1789 impacted the development of the country at large, citing specific events and trends that flowed from that event - demonstrating your ability to contextualize the event within the nations broader development.

Then discuss the proximate causes of the 2020 protests - demonstrating your knowledge of that event.

Then tie, don’t tie, or somewhat tie what you described as the proximate causes of the protests to what you describe as the fallout from 1789.

And if that’s too difficult, write a letter to the teacher and teach your kid that righteous indignation obviates the need to defend one’s scholarship.

I had a roommate in college who never studied, spent the night before the exam cleaning up his room in a fit of panic and semi-drunkenness, and began every answer to every essay questions as follows:

"Some people believe_________. Others insist___________."

And then he'd proceed to regurgitate very possible thought he had on the subject.

He'd love this question.

He's a psychiatrist in KY.

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The protests occurred because of the epidemic of unarmed Black people being murdered by white police officers.

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10-15 a year isn't an epidemic, it's a rarity.

Also gfy

"I disagree. There is zero evidence that racism, much less slavery, played any role whatsoever in the deaths of either one. If you don't like the answer, you're a brainwashed fool, and you are in over your head teaching students, most of whom are almost certainly a few standard deviations above you in IQ."

Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without discussion. That is the response she should submit.

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I still don't understand how this effects the interaction between police and Floyd or Taylor for that matter some 250 years later.

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Ask the teacher how slavery is such a crux still for 2 people born after 1970. Also, how were their killings racial in any way? Did slavery cause Taylor to lay with her criminal boyfriend that would have cops raid his/their place? How about how was Floyd's death racial, since the states black AG didn't find it to be true, and how he died from a fentanyl overdose? Why is she so racist that she can only name criminals in her question. How about Doran who was murdered by BLM rioters. Or go back further iirc the Dallas Police officers that were assassinated by a BLM activist. Is slavery the blame for All the black on black crime?

Is all the black on white murders/crime to blame on slavery and justifiable?

Fund a way to turn it back on her and don't just discuss it with her but make sure the principal is involved too.