Heart of #Florida United Way proudly presents “Know Your Place” — a deeply introspective #film that illuminates realities in Central Florida’s not-so-distant past.
Yes, I did see and have now re-read the lengthy but informative Wiki entry.
Has it crossed your mind, too, that they are using a rhetoric technique out of Goebbel's propaganda playbook, namely that of charging the opposing side with what you are guilty of or about to do?
Let's rephrase/amend the text:
""[B]oth the U.S. and THE RUSSIAN governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of OLIGARCHS /...
...BILLIONAIRES, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians[!].
If FURTHER left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government [TRUMP & MAGATs] HAVE BEEN betrayING the country's sovereignty to the RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND TO OLIGARCS / BILLIONAIRES to create a New World Order, managed by a 'one-world PLUTOCRACY government'."
"Welch, Robert E. (1961). The Blue Book of the John Birch Society..."
I've been yelling from the rooftops, READ EDWARD E. BAPTIST! Specifically his book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism". And of course many people don't have the time or interest for a history book, no matter how compelling. Well, good news! Vox has an interview with Dr. Baptist, about the book, which gives a good overview of his themes and arguments. READ IT!!
"Of the many myths told about American slavery, one of the biggest is that it was an archaic practice that only enriched a small number of men.
The argument has often been used to diminish the scale of slavery, reducing it to a crime committed by a few Southern planters, one that did not touch the rest of the United States. Slavery, the argument goes, was an inefficient system, and the labor of the enslaved was considered less productive than that of a free worker being paid a wage. The use of enslaved labor has been presented as premodern, a practice that had no ties to the capitalism that allowed America to become — and remain — a leading global economy.
But as with so many stories about slavery, this is untrue. Slavery, particularly the cotton slavery that existed from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the Civil War, was a thoroughly modern business, one that was continuously changing to maximize profits."
Today is the "Day of Remembrance" of FDR's (U.S. President during WW II) Executive Order 9066 authorizing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, signed Feb. 19, 1942.
“As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future. The Interior Department has the tremendous honor of stewarding America’s public lands and natural and cultural resources to tell a complete and honest story of our nation’s history,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Well, it's President's Day in the US, which begs the question: is there any US president worth actually celebrating? Is there a single one that wasn't an absolute mass-murdering shitheel scumbag?
(Note: if you respond, you need to cite the historical record, not just vibes. And we are DEFINITELY counting all the bad shit they did, regardless of how much perceived good shit they did.)
(Second Note: if you name ANY of the slave-owning Presidents, you're blocked.)
A PROUD FAMILY LEGACY—the pioneering accomplishments of the US military’s first Black generals, a father and son—serves as the center of a close, thoughtful look at the history of military inclusion and segregation. B PLUS
MLK's paternal grandfather "Jim King—born the year before the abolition of chattel slavery—personified the crushing frustrations of Black life in the South. He never learned to read or write. He never voted. He never owned property. Instead, he lived in a perpetual state of debt to the white men for whom he farmed."
The Revolutionary Writings of #BlackAmericans with James G. Basker and Annette Gordon-Reed.
The story told and retold about America’s founding often excludes the Black communities that existed during the Revolution and the early republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era, a new volume from Library of America, changes that.
If conservative #SCOTUS justices take #originalism seriously, they should take this brief seriously. (Note, #if.)
The historians conclude that the #14A#insurrection clause does apply to presidents, does cover post-civil-war insurrection, and does not require supplementary acts of Congress.
This is an exceptionally powerful docu series about #Reconstruction, as told through a #blackhistory lens by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My current research activity consists of feeling out how many elements of what #Dewey would reconstruct into #pragmatism were already manifest in his national environment. And it strikes me that certain key Afro-American figures are those who most profoundly embodied that #philosophy in their acts.
This is an exceptionally powerful docu series about #Reconstruction, as told through a #blackhistory lens by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My current research activity consists of feeling out how many elements of what Dewey would reconstruct into #pragmatism were already manifest in his national environment. And it strikes me that certain key Afro-American figures are those who most profoundly embodied that #philosophy in their acts.
“What we’re hearing from some teachers is that they often struggle with getting students to understand the standards because the materials they’re using, the texts that they’re using, are either abstract, or have a different relevance, and so there’s an added sort of translational work that needs to happen in the classroom to talk about how to get to the standards and learning objectives,” Chang said.
Today, I started reading How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I will admit that I'm a bit raw because my sister is in the hospital, but JFC, this is brutal!
Between what we weren't told as kids and details on things that we were sort of told, it's incredibly informative and interesting, but I can't stop crying about things in it.
Like, I never knew the Philippines had been an American territory.
Also, the Japanese in WWII... yeah, what a serious lesson in what happens when you dehumanize the people on the other side. I mean, sure, the NAZIs did it too, don't get me wrong, but I knew more about the European theater in WWII.
"Expanded teachings of Asian American and Pacific Islander history may be coming to Sacramento K-12 classrooms. The state’s Instructional Quality Commission, which is responsible for developing and recommending curriculum for schools throughout California, will consider adding content highlighting Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities in its next revision of the statewide history-social science curriculum."
OPINION: Reconstruction Failed in the United States. What If It Had Succeeded?
As a white public historian who has spent years trying to understand what makes people hate, there is one thing I always go back to: what if Reconstruction succeeded in the United States?
How did the losers end up writing the #history of the #CivilWar and spreading the popular lie of a heroic #Confederacy in a war about states' rights instead of slavery?
"Oddly, the explanation reaches back to the pro-Confederate Dunning School of Reconstruction history at #ColumbiaUniversity... installed a white-supremacist curriculum at Columbia and dispatched doctoral students to set up pro-Confederate #USHistory departments at Southern universities." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3NBV7vA
Affirmative Action is a way to try to right generational wrongs that have caused damage to entire portions of our population, damages that continue to reverberate today.
Given that the US continues to underfund public primary education in poor and underprivileged communities where generally minorities live in higher proportion, yes, this is breaking history and the future for many in this country.