re: Why is American History split into Black and White?

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What is the process by which a historical event is deemed "book-worthy"?

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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.

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I’m just thinking of it in general terms, from junior high through the survey courses in college. Point being, no ethnic group was singled out for exclusion or inclusion in what events transpired through the centuries.

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Hell, I do it and I'm one of the smartest motherfrickers I have ever met.

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Tra-la-la to Victory! How to lose the Battle

My nisei father was a senior (by age and training) combat soldier from the very start of the U.S. campaign on the European Front of World War II to after its horrific end. As a trainer in charge of discipline with the 100th infantry battalion of Hawaii-based Japanese American troops, my dad Ken participated in the landing at Oran, Morocco, arriving in time for the tank battle at Kasserine Pass, one of the biggest clashes of armor in WWII. The operation’s commander Lt. Gen. Lloyd Fredendall had an excellent strategy, which was for his corps of M3 tanks to speedily cross over the Atlas Mountains and take German commander Erwin Rommel and his Afrikakorps by surprise. Unfortunately, the Germans were waiting at the top of the pass, firing at will at the sitting ducks below. The Allies suffered 10,000 dead and destruction of 183 tanks, as opposed to German losses of 2,000 dead and 34 tanks, plus a bunch of auxiliary Italians and Arabs.

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After the stunned Germans retreated, my father tracked the Negro cowards to a nearby town, where with a few days a black trooper named Lawrence Till from Money, Mississippi, was being accused of multiple rapes of the local Italian women. My father beat him to death in front of the other deserters, and his battered remains were sent to a cemetery for dishonorably traitors in France. That, by the way, was the father of the celebrated young attempted rapist Emmett Till, the boy murdered and dumped in a swamp by outraged local men as depicted in the film “Till” produced by Whoopi Goldberg. In wartime, cowardly rapists must be put down hard so as not to add to the demoralization that throws the odds in favor of the many enemies.

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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.

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