Rep Wants 'Good' Parts of Slavery Be Taught in Schools

This rep tried to suggest that there are ‘good’ parts to slavery that should be taught in schools - and naturally got shut down.
» Subscribe to NowThis: go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe
» Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: go.nowth.is/KnowThis
For more us politics and world news, subscribe to NowThis News.
#Slavery #Louisiana #RayGarofaloJr #Politics #News #NowThis
Connect with NowThis
» Like us on Facebook: go.nowth.is/News_Facebook
» Tweet us on Twitter: go.nowth.is/News_Twitter
» Follow us on Instagram: go.nowth.is/News_Instagram
» Find us on Snapchat Discover: go.nowth.is/News_Snapchat
NowThis is your premier news outlet providing you with all the videos you need to stay up to date on all the latest in trending news. From entertainment to politics, to viral videos and breaking news stories, we’re delivering all you need to know straight to your social feeds. We live where you live.
/ nowthisnews
@nowthisnews

[@bitchslapthesun]

"I want to keep politics out of the classrom” Translation: I do not want the next generations to know what actually happened in history and want my lies and revised history to be taught as fact.

[@darrellwilliams1714]

It worked with Columbus lol

[@brandondunnegan3890]

No that means that we teach all parts of american history. The good and bad

[@AaronOkeanos]

@@darrellwilliams1714 Good example. And why: Well because not all the facts were teached. And some fact may even have been false.

[@TOMBSOFCOOL]

These "people" are some of the dumbest in the entire planet.

[@brandondunnegan3890]

@@TOMBSOFCOOL well the majority of our politicians have never done anything outside of politics

[@austinobst8989]

Acknowledging the mistakes of your nation's past is not "hating" your nation. It's actually good for it.

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

I also don't understand why you would want anyone to support everything their nation does or if they can't support it, that they don't know about it. That just looks like the best way out of democracy.

[@bzbz7932]

How is being an anti-white racist CRT pusher to vilify white people living today anything to do with history?

[@budomk9299]

@@bzbz7932 ???? This is about atrocities that were committed against people. Has nothing with being anti white

[@Jacob-zk1jy]

it’s how we grow and learn, inherently, conservatism is impossible to evolve

[@bzbz7932]

@@Jacob-zk1jy If it were just that , and only how you put it. CRT is not though.

[@snowieken]

Imagine being so far gone that calling slavery bad becomes a political issue.

[@kellen5545]

The act of saying "don't be political" is being political too. Cherry picking historical points has already lead us not even be taught about the Tulsa massacre. I don't ever recall hearing about that in my primary education.

[@zoeywhite4683]

@@kellen5545 Yesss. I am in 11th grade now, and I just now learned about the Tulsa Race massacre two years ago. I taught myself. I saw a video on KZbin and decided to watch and it taught me everything about what had happened. Then I just kept on reading about it and told my siblings about it.

[@savlosavage]

They aren’t far gone … they are trying to maintain subtle racism … to make their voters feel good

[@ninarae3368]

@@kellen5545 yeah and I remember being taught ww2 every year in history class it's kinda ridiculous

[@opynyensbattlerap3027]

@@kellen5545 or the truth about alamo we have been shoved white history. The writers of history always white out its sins.

[@wauwaukleff]

When kids learn their country was founded on genocide and slavery, they might just think to question dangerous concepts like Nationalism. At least that is something german education has taught me.

[@karenlinares7541]

I swear to god These people equate criticizing the government to hating ur country Its so stupid

[@letsomethingshine]

And then they hypocritically turn around and criticize "Big Government"... They are the "Big Gov for me, but not for thee" crowd.

[@hopelltt]

@@letsomethingshine I always thought it as the other way around with people like this. They want regulations and laws regarding particular people and situations, but they want big gov to leave them alone where they see fit. “Big gov for thee, not for me.” types.

[@skontheroad]

That is not what is taught in Gymnasium. Or what do you mean by German education? What books were part of the curriculum?

[@ceterisparibus8966]

@@hopelltt AKA Evangelicals

[@LFROSTVEVO]

Translation: Our history makes us look bad but rather than addressing the uncomfortable, I'd rather keep people ignorant of the truth.

[@cetacious]

Funny thou, the rest of the country knows it bettero. USA live in an Island complex.

[@kingjah6420]

@Andrea MENDENHALL slavery is bad. is that an opinion or fact?

[@budomk9299]

@Andrea MENDENHALL if it is a fact then it counts as history, not an opinion. They should have picked another topic to do this whole both sides bs.

[@Jacob-zk1jy]

@Andrea MENDENHALL mhm because teaching about all the hardships of being a colored, Asian, Muslim, Or just not white, are all opinions. ppl be like “no no it’s good that black people where lynched or now, Asians beaten in the streets”

[@Wolfy83]

That's what I got out of it.

[@leandreaatkins4224]

I remember going to a plantation for a field trip..they didn't mention the slaves at all..this is how this guy wants to teach history..my ancestors deserve to be acknowledged

[@-myharlequinnsapphicarch-]

yes ma'am, they deserve more than anything to be acknowledged. Also. I hope you have a very prosperous week, much love to you! ☺️

[@talk2minie]

Exactly!

[@RebeccaLynnMusic]

I am sorry that you had that experience!

[@EyeLean5280]

Yes, of course they do.

[@budomk9299]

You're right. They must be acknowledged

[@soonny002]

Woman: "There is no good side to slavery" Man: "So you're saying that slavery is bad?" Woman: "Yes." Man: "Well then you're bringing your politics into the matter which is what we're trying to prevent" Woman: *Face palms

[@mervyngreene6687]

Actually, there was a lot of good from slavery. Of course, the slave owners received a lot of good from slavery. Increased profits due to cheap labor.

[@EvolvingLark]

@@mervyngreene6687 I totally thought he was gonna do the "economic benefits" thing

[@Elda.Handles]

Man paraphrased: "We have to teach everything. The whole picture and its details. We shouldn't make our children feel ashamed, but have them learn to be better. We shouldn't bring political ideology/brainwashing into the class where truth should be taught" Everyone else: "This man just claimed that slavery is good" "This man is a racist"

[@noltihernandez1573]

That’s not what he said.

[@adrin8394]

@@Elda.Handles Teaching the good in slavery act is just a form of validation of oppression by slave owner, trying to sugarcoat slavery with good in "economic benefits" is the most appalling thought a free human can think about in this modern 21st century. United states is the land of "free" not the land of "necessary evil"

[@whats.inaname]

“Don’t inject your opinions into history, but you have to teach what I decided you should teach”

[@Zeno_Perceus]

Like facts?

[@User_005]

@@Zeno_Perceus What are the facts?

[@xray5984]

@@User_005 I love how that shut them up.

[@sfxanno2311]

@@xray5984 yea ikr,maybe hes just an annoying 8 year old from his profile picture

[@darrellwilliams1714]

He keeps saying teach facts, but then doesn't want you to teach facts... 🤔

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@FrankypankyV8]

@Jim Jones These Republicans aren't the same as those who want a Jim Crow 2.0 voting supression policy today... Hm?

[@madid5398]

@Jim Jones 1963. Kevin Phillips was the strategist for the Goldwater campaign where they made efforts to gain the votes of white supremacists because they knew they couldn't get enough votes from black people anyway. Look his name up. He openly talks about it in interviews.

[@__Andrew]

@Jim Jones Oh dear, you dont know anything about history huh? lol Do some research on "southern democrats" and take a look at vote totals for Jim Crow legislation by state and party. You will find that Jim Crow support was a SOUTHERN thing not a "democrat" thing. Basically LBJ, who was a southern democrat, made big progress in civil rights and this made other southern democrats upset which dominioned into the parties we see today with southern democrats who were against civil rights breaking away and joining the republican party while the democratic party re-solidified into those who opposed segregation. Basically both parties had racist elements in them but where divided more by geography than party. Then when it _WAS_ made into a party issue the racist fled into being republicans and that is what we have today. It's really not that hard to understand.

[@Mrzcakesn6]

Facts!! On how we were hung killed raped and tortured. This man is out of it really. A psych eval is needed and he needs to come off the panel...

[@archeoindy1697]

As a historian, my brain melted listening to this man. History is inherently political and ideological as the perception of truth and fact is filtered through the biased lense of personal experience, whether it be your own or the person recording the history.

[@perry9812]

That is correct. And why do you believe there is suddenly a huge push to teach history in a certain way? Does it not seem suspicious for someone who is supposed to think critically?

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 It's not in a specific way, it's just teaching more because it's been downplayed for so long. Stop trying to stir up some conspiracy theories, this is history we're talking about.

[@perry9812]

@@davidmays8974 Yeah,all across the western world teachers just suddenly decided to teach history a certain way. It's certainly not an agenda. Sure.

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 No it's not, definitely not, I'm living in the western and they taught me it and I'm perfectly fine, they aren't teaching an agenda their teaching more about the parts of history that were downplayed for so long because of people like you.

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 You literally have no proof what so ever, but not a lick of evidence you have, these conspiracy theories your stirring up are only "what if's," without actually asking the people who were taught the curriculum, just generalizations, and assumptions and, here that will get you know where.

[@wildshrimp4819]

Being a true Patriot means acknowledging your country’s weaknesses and working to turn those weaknesses into strengths.

[@lizcollinson2692]

This man is why many don't know about Juneteenth.

[@01993jbdbejifn]

What is juneteenth?

[@khangsector]

It's strange that we did not learn about this date during our school years. I only know this date from my employer, last year, during the riots, and lootings.

[@luna-p]

@@khangsector I only learned about it a couple years ago from a sitcom. I went to school in the nineties

[@camc9225]

I learned about it in 5th grade going to school in California. I now live in Missouri and its just not taught here. Hopefully that changes

[@zephyrschiesser5408]

@Dubs McCheck'em Yes, not all history is able to be learned. HOWEVER Juneteenth is important to U.S. history. It should be taught in U.S. schools.

[@allianabogado1617]

When he was talking about the good side of slavery, he was talking about those who profited off of it. For him, it's good and natural to profit off of another human's suffering and lack of any choice or freedom. To him, it's good and natural to take advantage of any human one might deem as less than. And if you really try, you'll find that many people think this way and simply accept it.

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

I'm sure he would volunteer to be a slave if he could, since it was fun.

[@JustLex98]

Its that type of teaching that would send the US right back into thinking slavery is okay.

[@CNRMAX]

It’s like for the very first time of their lives they felt what guilt is finally and now they’re trying to rewire the entire system to protect them from it lmao

[@smaakaker]

What I hear is "There is no room in our classrooms for CRITICAL THINKING" Wonderful.

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

The sad part is that you don't even have to straw man them... let talk long enough and they'll say it themselves.

[@JLMac322]

Exactly! And critical thinking is THE WHOLE POINT of education, especially in humanities subjects like history. History is not about learning facts and dates, it's about understanding

[@Zeno_Perceus]

You should check your ears.

[@perry9812]

Showing both the good and the bad is precisely what encourages critical thinking. Only saying that America's history sucks is conditioning.

[@smaakaker]

@@perry9812 A.) if the shoe fits... the reality is that American history has a lot of tragedy and racism. A LOT! B.) These chuds only want to show the supposed "good". I'm sorry, but it's not that simple. C.) American history was always whitewashed in public schools and now they want to legislate it to be even more untruthful. If anything, they should mandate MORE of the disturbing history be taught, lest they want to repeat it.

[@Snuzzled]

"I don't think anyone would say there was a good side to slavery." - guy who just said there was a good side to slavery

[@cycleoflife565]

Freudian slip.

[@Ahijahprince]

This is the fallacy of politics and politicians. Politicians have been groomed to say whatever the voter wants to hear-- to ensure another vote. Most have no moral compass. They are only blank faces gauging the feelings of the voter. Lying is accepted and romanticized in this profession. This is why a politician can make two opposite statements and not be called out for it. It's a shame that we have these dishonest pretenders setting policy for others.

[@angelheartonline]

The reality was there was good side to slavery...it just was not good for the slaves...or their descendants

[@morvid1968]

The only goodthing about slavery is that it ended.

[@morvid1968]

@Andrea MENDENHALL ??? Yeah? And I said the only good thing is that slavery ended? Im just saying that slavery ending is a good thing...what?? Like i don't get what u mean

[@Lion-uv6yh]

I swear this country needs a do over. Start with wiping out the old fools in congress

[@christopherparrisjr.3146]

We need the old and the young for a balance. But there’s definitely a lot of people who have been in Congress for too long.

[@dinosaurus598]

If this country wants to really be the best they will need to fix alot stuff wrong with the Republic.

[@eugenelim11]

America will just vote in new fools. These new fools will do more damage. Like Greene.

[@eugenelim11]

@@dinosaurus598 The problem is who defines what stuff is "wrong". The abovementioned is an attempt to fix the "wrong perspective" on history.

[@jmaguire2232]

We’re probably getting one whether or not we want it.

[@imblack011]

He's literally talking about teaching the good of slavery while literally sitting next to a black man. I can't imagine how terrible that guy felt

[@perry9812]

He worded it extremely poorly. Republicans really need some better speakers to make their points. He's referring to the need to also talk about the abolitionist movement and the positive steps America has taken regarding the subject of slavery. The current curriculum is all about teaching kids to hate their country and not celebrate it's defeat over the institution of slavery. We should learn both from the mistakes of the past but also be inspired by the heroes who fought and died to fix those mistakes. They're all part of America's history.

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 The current curriculum hasn't taught us that at all, I was taught though I didn't hate my country, and along with every single one of my classmates. So stop lying, and stop with the "what if's," because the truth is you don't have a lick of evidence to back it up, and you just assume without actually asking the people being taught the curriculum.

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 Literally every other country is open to teaching their past mistakes, and it especially worked with the Germans, yet they keep saying that they actually don't hate their country, and actually acknowledge their countries mistakes, but they know that it isn't their fault themselves. It's shown to work, and shown to be good, so stop trying to downplay it.

[@perry9812]

@@davidmays8974 CRT is not about teaching history. Don't try to equate those two things.

[@davidmays8974]

@@perry9812 I'm not talking about CRT, I'm just speaking in general about America's history.

[@tic857]

I was once told by an old lady: If a person cannot admit the worst of their past to someone they say they love, then they have yet to show any growth and the other person cannot truly trust, love or build a better life with them because all they know is a lie. Seems applicable to country and government.

[@haydenmary4849]

what a great statement; it fits the statement made by that guy that was bragging that america has not changed like other countries had since it was birthed from nothing

[@proculusjulius7035]

@Margaret Kpeh yes and we can all own slaves and treat them however we like so long as they don't die. The Bible.

[@lrc3847]

Actually is admit and NOT repeat again the mistake but there are tons of people who WANTS to do it.

[@dendennis9060]

They left the history of Black Wall Street all together, even try to hide it

[@rickeybernard8156]

Yeah I still don't know about it which is bad.

[@rickeybernard8156]

@Andrea MENDENHALL then you know it's not as simple as choosing to go. Jake Tran and Second Thought explained as well. Prison is a BUSINESS. You don't have to necessarily be a criminal. All you have to is have the right background.

[@titomala-madre]

The 1985 MOVE bombing. The Philadelphia Police bombed a house to tarjet activits. This killed 11 people and destroyed 65 homes in a black neighborhood. Not that long ago.

[@raerohan4241]

@AV Mendenhall That's like putting an object in some hard-to-spot area of the house and going "you have glasses, you can see everything"

[@LassoOfTruth]

I looooved how Watchmen used this piece of history on their series. Just love it. A lot of people didn't know. We have to recognize the ugly with the bad, so the bad sides of history are no repeat it.

[@justwandering838]

The fact there's a desire and fight to hide the truth of slavery, and those it affected says a lot 🙄

[@ChrisMarx]

The guy can’t come up with an example to support his point after using his horrible slavery example. She should just put him on the spot to provide a better example.

[@Delinae]

I think what the rep said would be true about current events, not about history though. In upper divisions of the school system, teachers should encourage their students to ask questions and try out different perspectives on current events, without jumping in with personal judgements before students can fully reason their way through to a conclusion. For example, is the carbon tax effective to cut emissions? Does it actually stifle economic growth? Teachers should guide students to understand where both sides of the argument comes from, then guide students to a preferred conclusion. Teachers shouldn't express or imply that anyone who was worried about the economic outcomes of environmental issues is a stupid or bad person or that they're arguing on bad faith. They can present materials that show that particular perspective is less valid, but for that to happen that perspective must be presented and taken seriously. I think what this rep said here was badly presented and wrong, but some aspects of the spirit of what he's getting at isn't necessarily.

[@__Andrew]

TL;DR from the republican guys statement - Please don't teach facts, they hurt my feelings.

[@flamelazer27]

Completely agreed, also they have the condition to not learn the truth, telling the lies in their life.

[@wilmablankenship9196]

Thank my lucky star's. I do not live in USA any more! Explain what was good about slavery? Please respond!

[@flamelazer27]

@@wilmablankenship9196 don't mind me to telling, I read the history in general and didn't insist to memorize every detail, rather than that I would research based on what a topic is about. For what's so good about slavery? ZERO... In reality, ZERO GOOD SLAVERY. Maybe, I don't research deeply nor study more history, but seriously... I highly disagree about so-called good parts of slavery.

[@tatersalad76]

@@wilmablankenship9196 the good thing about slavery is that it's not a thing anymore

[@jonathanmyatt9426]

There were good parts of slavery If you were the slaver. The slaves suffered brutally. The only good side is that you could make cheap food since you don't have to pay. Yet again i would classify that as a benefit more than a good thing and slavery is most certainly a diabolical.

[@angeladoll9785]

My son's FL teacher tried to both sides this issue & I shut him down so hard. Stop looking for redemption in evil folks😒

[@praises5139]

Trying to hide then justify evil when it becomes exposed eventually just causes everything to become unraveled at the seams. It's what we are looking at presently in the USA. The USA is on the train named Disaster with the final stop called Judgement. No one that has the power to make things different seems to want to disembark before the last station. I think the choice to disembark and do things rightly is slipping away from the USA as a country. It will in short time, turn into a run-a-way train wreck for all and not just a few citizens. It is better for those who have knowledge and understanding to get off "the crazy train".

[@gillianespinoza3652]

Yep, sometimes there is only one side, the bad side. Giving an equal consideration of terrible behavior gives oppressors a voice, not the oppressed.

[@need-to-know-]

@@praises5139 I’m sorry but there are no more stops before our destination.

[@bobsburgers8497]

Right. There are no good sides to slavery, genocide, or ethnic cleansing UNLESS they mean that it was profitable? Which, while that is the case doesn’t not make it good from a MORAL OR ETHICAL Standpoint. They literally just want to justify evils as much as possible bc of their white guilt

[@1MarkKeller]

This is what happens when we celebrate traitors as national heritage. Confederates should have never been honored with statues, holidays and everything else this country has done for them.

[@eileenedmonson9485]

So disgusting! Why are those who commit the atrocities expending so much effort to remove their actions from history?

[@TheMysticGod1587]

They might as well also teach “The good parts of nazism”

[@amalzuhair4495]

Basically he's saying "History makes me uncomfortable, now change it"

[@MahoneyBadger]

No he’s saying the opposite, just not well.

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@rodniestruiken1256]

History is constantly written every minute of every day. We make our own history as the day goes by. The teacher is 200% right. That's what she meant whit history is fluent. And divergent people see thing from a different perspective. That's history to. You can't teach history from a single perspective. That's called indoctrination.

[@magicdolphin8436]

@@MahoneyBadger He wants to make it illegal to teach (correctly) that the US and LA are systemically racist and sexist.

[@cavinrauch]

@@magicdolphin8436 Wrong he wants it taught in black and white. His used slavery as an example hence how his hand lifed as an example. By saying the good the bad and the ugly he means it on all topics. Granted some don't have good sides and some might not have ugly sides either. I think what he wants is history be taught exactly as it was written. Like don't leave out any details at all. Only when we are able to talk and be educated on everything in a topic can we really start acting on it correctly. Misinformation can cause way more issue. What is a someone teaches about Slavery but takes the side of it being "good" and trys to down play how horrible it was by never mentioning the living conditions of slaves. ( Only an example but if you can choose what to leave out to can shape how someone interprets it ) Just teach plan facts.

[@enderwiggins8248]

The thing is, he literally proves himself wrong. He wanted to use “good bad and ugly” in a generic way, but you inherently can’t always do that and slavery is a good example. It’s disgusting and there’s nothing good about it, so educators shouldn’t be expected to find “the good bad and ugly” in all topics.

[@sechabatheletsane9784]

Exactly. Lol

[@MASViper]

Well, slaves does has values in the old days. People need to pay money to own them... But that's in the old day.

[@Vapor817]

@@MASViper slaves might've had economic value but they were worse for the economy due to how a slavery system holds back a society from industrialization

[@MASViper]

@@Vapor817 Can you elaborate on the relationship between slavery and industrialization? This is the first time I heard it.

[@cloudreaver]

There’s actually good that came from slavery. The slave owners got free labor, and free people got cheaper products and services. The problem is, this is an unfair way for society to be run, and a lot of harm can come from that. It was inevitable that slavery would become outlawed as society progressed. That’s what the governor meant, and it’s too bad that people let their emotions blind them to these perspectives.

[@bioj6500]

The word gymnastics this man uses to try to walk back his statement but at the same continue to make the same statement are mind boggling.

[@need-to-know-]

The act of writing history is in itself a political act so how does this nimrod think that the study of those writings can be a-political?

[@letsomethingshine]

Because, now that politicians are directly involved with legislation from the top of Big Local Gov, it can surely cease to be political. A teacher cannot be political if the thick rubber boots of government is on their neck... Get it? It's the neocon M.O. be as hypocritical as possible and then double down at every turn.

[@strawbe891]

"Keep politics out of the classroom" then try and ban students from gaining different viewpoints.

[@luna-p]

Said the politician forcing his politics into the classroom

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@kt550]

Gaining different viewpoints is far different then shoveling down anti American history.

[@discoplatypusplayz3389]

@@kt550 "anti-American" is a euphemism for "anything we did that we can't defend"

[@peacekeeperbabe]

...said politician

[@jamesoblivion]

So the position is, "You can teach that slavery and the holocaust happened, just don't say they were bad, because that's 'political.'" So...yeah...wow.

[@brendaluv2017]

It’s a sneaky way of making it look innocent

[@brendaluv2017]

😈

[@TheNdege1]

When the devil wants to be remembered for doing "good".

[@stormthrush37]

He wasn't even satisfied with saying it the first time. He went out of his way to say it a second time! Lord.

[@davidbryce6970]

The Representative wants to make sure that political ideology doesn't intrude into the classroom by intruding into the classroom with political ideology.

[@Afrimusican]

He believes us to be fools. Little does he know he's as transparent as his skin.

[@DavidJohnson-dp4vv]

I love the fact that room erupted in laughter when he got called out on BS.

[@Zeno_Perceus]

He said that slavery isn't good. He simply worded his statement wrong. He then acknowledged that he said something inappropriate and corrected himself.

[@DavidJohnson-dp4vv]

@@Zeno_Perceus So what exactly did he mean when he said the good aspects of slavery?

[@proculusjulius7035]

@@Zeno_Perceus a display of cognitive dissonance if ever I saw one. There was and still is no good in slavery unless you want to argue that it made America a powerful nation at the expense of the freedom and dignity of thousands and thousands of other people of color.

[@letsomethingshine]

He meant that he does not have the skill, nor is he in any way qualified, to be up there representing the "Big Gov" that he hypocritically hates. He is cancelling this culture from the higher mansion of useful ignorance rather than from the grass-roots of people's actual experience.

[@obtuse947]

@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv He used the expression “ the good, the bad, and the ugly” in a way that didn’t conform with his point of view. He clarified it twice later in the video.

[@starfleetcaptain5413]

Please explain to me how people like him are allowed anywhere near a position of power.

[@ChrisPage68]

Money.

[@Warsie]

Democracy has a lot of bad sides to it haha

[@lalat7260]

Teaching our kids the truth is what matters! They can handle it

[@antmck99]

No

[@bukketkid2567]

"If you're not ashamed of your countries history then you don't know your countries history.".. (forgot who/where I heard the quote from)

[@EyeLean5280]

Country's

[@SuccessMelody]

@@EyeLean5280 countries *

[@budomk9299]

@@SuccessMelody I think it's actually country's

[@Jacob-zk1jy]

ok so this countries v country’s debate works both ways. Country’s means the people who live or are native to a country, countries could mean the leaders who control those countries and SHOULD know the history, like Ron over here SHOULD know America’s history yet he wants to block it out. man it sucks down here in the sunshit state

[@Ngamotu83]

'Countries' is plural. It denotes more than one country. 'Country's' is possessive. It indicates what belongs to, or is owned by, a singular country. So in the case of the original quote it should read: "If you're not ashamed of your country's history, then you don't know your country's history."

[@weareparamore1597]

Not surprised, Marjorie Greene was just the start

[@darkmadder9897]

All metastasizing around the malignant Lump despite a successful excision...

[@christiannunez6421]

People, pay attention to who you vote for. You have two US senators, a US representative, a state senator and a state representative/assembly member. Those are five people that are accountable to YOU

[@annalouise3251]

History is history! Our job is to teach it for what it is, not "some" of it or a "watered down" version but AS IT IS!!!

[@romeoromero808]

It doesn't surprise me that this happened in Louisiana. This guy also needs to take a Sociology and obviously a History class.

[@tiffanyholman4028]

He probably thinks a sociology class is about socialism.

[@romeoromero808]

@@tiffanyholman4028 😅🤣🤣😂😂 good one! He probably does 😆

[@rubenfranzen8912]

I mastered in history and this entire talk shows that people who do not not know the field and lack words should stay out of regulating it. Same goes for medical sciences and climate sciences.

[@Vapor817]

the scary thing is that some history classes in states such as louisiana really do try to say there were good things about slavery. it's probably why that guy took a shot at saying what he said

[@romeoromero808]

@@Vapor817 Thats the scary thing too! I've heard about that before, its mind-boggling.

[@coolest_pinneapple78]

Its not about teaching hate its about learning from our past mistakes holding ourselves as a nation accountable for what we've done and not allow ourselves to repeat those mistakes again. That's why it needs to be taught!

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

that's why they dont want it taught.

[@coolest_pinneapple78]

@@jusletursoulglobaby perhaps its just me but to me the American way is to change and work on yourself. America is the youngest conutry in the world but we have always been open about our mistakes that has left us open for the public to criticize us but we constantly change for the better and worse throughout history America has never stayed one way for too long. An what's happening in our country now further proves my point. America does not have a solid way of life. We're contstant imo making changes but we havent held ourselves accountable for our wrongs and that what makes our country so toxic we need to face ourselves in the mirror that's what being an American is. At least to me so for states to do this is very unacceptable and the opposite of what it truly means to be a American citizen in USA.

[@rastatank1345]

You want Republicans to hold themselves accountable?

[@coolest_pinneapple78]

@@rastatank1345 nope both of them because historically democrats played a huge role in these events too. The whole government owes the American people a HUGE apology for the evils they've commited all throughout our history. It's disgusting how the American government treats its people and continue to do so. As a fellow American I demand they pay there dues because I've had enough smh what is happening today could've been avoided years ago if they treated us like people and not cash cows. Disgusting behaviour niether one of them is innocent in this. They both have blood on their hands.

[@petey0rhino]

Exactly, however this country for centuries has and even today continues to hate people of color but no conservatives out here talking about that

[@kakarot.t]

This guy wants to teach that there is no racism woooooooow

[@ibrahimhassan711]

why is everything so political wrong and right are so clear my 10-year-old can see. Slavery was a horrible thing and should not happen under any concept

[@cupguin]

Ugh I hate using "politics" as code. Of course there's politics in classrooms, where else should we learn about politics?! Except they don't really mean politics, they mean all the parts of history they don't want to acknowledge happened. They don't want context or reflection or nuance on any subject they've decided they want to ignore.

[@TVeldhorst]

Added to that: all human history is about politics as well, seeing peoples choices and circumstances have always been influenced by the society and politics of their times. Teaching history in a factual and complete way without politics is impossible.

[@Rolsification]

It's not that they don't want politics, they don't want "leftist" politics that they don't agree with

[@gillianespinoza3652]

Couldn't have said it better myself, yes. A lot of people want to pretend things are okay now, and not as important to discuss. And it's sad that a lot of these people believe (or tell themselves they do) that teaching our kids what really happened is us teaching them to hate their country. Like what??

[@ThatSux]

If we only look at slavery from an economic point of view and ignore everything else, then in some ways it is actually "good". From an economic point of view, slavery means almost free labor. Isn't that a positive aspect of slavery? 🤔 - Why is it not even allowed to speak objectively and soberly about possible motives without being accused of playing down? Learning out of your doings is so much more than just remember what happened and call it bad.

[@cupguin]

@@ThatSux well that's a disengenous and frankly ridiculous take. "It was a massive economic benefit for slave owners to not have to pay for labor." Obvious economic advantage explained, oh look at can move on. Meanwhile here's a modern example to explain why you're wrong. Bobby Paul Edwards kept a worker hostage for years. He physically abused him and didn't pay him for the hundred hour weeks he worked for five years. Now applying your logic it was "good" because Bobby Paul Edwards saved himself roughly $273,000 in wages. Which is accurate as long as you completely ignore John Christopher Smith who is the other half the story. Brutalized for five years. The only way you can call it "good" is if you only care about Bobby's life and the benefits he got out of it and ignore John Christopher Smith. Slavery is both the slavers and the enslaved. You can't slice out the inconvenient aspects of history and declare it "good". Millions of people not being paid for their work is not a "good" thing. In fact it's part of the reason slavery is bad. It's why we don't call theft "good" when it's enriching someone at the cost of someone else. Also when Americans talk about how slavery was "good" that's rarely what they mean these days. For hundreds of years people have tried to explain away slavery as "good" because it gave people the chance to live in America. It's still in home school textbooks, some slaves got to become American citizens ergo slavery wasn't that bad. A bit abridged but what actual children as being taught to this day. The UK likes to do the same two step about the British Empire. Sure they slaughtered millions, enslaved countless people and looted their way around the world but they brought "civilization" so it was fine. People actively argued all kinds of nonsensical reasons why America was doing a good thing enslaving people at the time. John C Calhoun seventh VP argued it was a "positive good" for everyone involved. So yes your "crime is good as long as it benefits us" argument or the actual still existing "we made Americans out non Americans so of course it was a good thing" or the "there's some bits in the Bible we like to think excuse us so it's good" arguments exist. In what universe do you teach those to children as good reasons to inflict suffering on others? Sure, "here's some nonsense people used to downplay what they were doing because it let them keep making money" but that's not the same thing as pretending they were right. When you do that you are pretending there might be net positive to slavery. You let some kids keep an idealized view of history where America (or the UK or any number of countries that have rewritten their history) can do no wrong and there are no difficult questions left to ask. Slavery is wrong. Buying into the myths that let people get away with it was wrong then and is wrong now.

[@runarandersen878]

I am a bit scared about what is happening in the US now...

[@lanamack1558]

... happening in the US now? I've been scared about what is happening/condoned in the US for nearly seventy years.

[@brokenmortal9803]

Nothing new. I'm American and my history teacher in college told us that the most modified history books are from our country. And that was 20 years ago. So nothing new, it's just being filmed and spread.

[@Mel-Kaboom]

Now?

[@shadow_of_thoth]

I'm just glad people are finally realizing how screwed up American beliefs are.

[@MrLawalker]

Wtf you mean "now"?

[@zawarudo1951]

As a student, I don't think I need a GED to debate if slavery had any "good parts", just no, it absolutely did not.

[@Reaching4Grapes]

you don't think slavery had any good parts?

[@milosummers2779]

Do you have to “keep politics out of the classroom” if it’s a politics lesson??💀💀💀💀

[@kaying1951]

I thought we learn history so we wouldn't repeat the mistakes and idiocy in the past, and those lessons are important.

[@nevaehlheaven]

That's exactly what it's about. I will elaborate if you'd like

[@letsomethingshine]

Yeah, but if something "feels bad" even in "theory"/expectation, then maybe "small government" can use it as a "totally not political ploy" to increase their power over what you can say and to limit your choices... You know, to "help" you keep favoring "small government." Totally nothing to do with their personal careers or their friends and families' wealth or anything.

[@perry9812]

@@letsomethingshine It's about freedom and the stability of the nation.

[@ChrisPage68]

The Right don't see them as mistakes.

[@perry9812]

@@ChrisPage68 The republicans are the ones who corrected those mistakes. Last I checked it's the democrats who fought to keep their slaves, created the KKK and passed laws that screwed up the black community.

[@kenlandon6130]

3:05 cover for letting politicians (sitting on school boards) dictate history curriculums by editing out inconvenient parts

[@dshepherd107]

And brainwashing a whole new generstion

[@paxundpeace9970]

Ain't the US accusing other nation to do this frequently

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@rodniestruiken1256]

Wy are politician on schoolboard?

[@darkmadder9897]

Something which crawled out of Charles Koch's pantleg, it appears...

[@Aleks_Ovski416]

"Teaching the good parts of slavery" what he wants to say is "Lets teach them how wealthy white people in America became off of owning human beings and how they felt so superior, as if they were some sort of great human, or superior animal. Wasn't it so great that Americans prospered?" Those are his "good parts"

[@robertmoran4631]

I got taught slavery from a neutral standpoint, like all the kids in public school. The reason it feels like they taught us "the bad slavery" it's because we were able to recognize it was bad, it was left up to us to interpret the information, and *most* of us were able to see how wrong it is. This argument is so sad

[@Juan-hd8lh]

He didn't mean to imply slavery has a good side: He said it explicitly!!! And then he just backed up his own words in a clear & public act of cowardice.

[@Yes-yp5nn]

He wad the one who had that be his subject I don’t think people are freaking out I think people think it’s funny

[@vanessamcqueen5768]

lolololololol

[@potatoesare_jesus2278]

It doesn’t matter, He knows that slavery is bad but wants to teach the better parts of it. I definitely have a problem with that, Idk about you.

[@Yes-yp5nn]

@@potatoesare_jesus2278 “the better parts of it” what better parts?

[@crystalwang1532]

First name Last name Exactly, there are no good parts of it. But he thinks there are. Which is an issue

[@ceterisparibus8966]

Wow. This was an eye-opener for me. I didn't know it was this bad in the US. Republican censorship knows no bounds.

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

Follow the money, every GOP story is sensationalized. The more eyeballs are on it, the more valuable it is. Truth? Zero importance.

[@tobiafolayan7152]

Honestly, for real, for real. I wanna know what the black man next to him was thinking. Ooo this dude must’ve had some THOUGHTS.

[@allyb3510]

"None of us were alive when history was written" I think someone paid for their homework once or twice when they were young..

[@coryrad9575]

Like she said, history is fluid. It is being written as we speak and revised when we learn new information. We have to remember that the people who write the history will always try to portray themselves in the best possible light. (see BIAS)

[@antmck99]

Talking about slavery

[@montaser9985]

This man has some ill intentions.

[@yoatemybeans4164]

how? he just wants to teach all sides of slavery

[@chrisdeep8417]

Must be an atheist.

[@Nevertoleave]

@@yoatemybeans4164 once again. You do not frame, some people got rich and America was prosperous because of slavery as a good thing. You can just teach what happened without trying to frame it as slavery being good. Anyone that tries to tell you otherwise is trying to minimize the horrors of slavery. The daughter of the confederacy already spend decades teaching kids that slavery was great and slaves were happy. It’s pretty obvious likeminded people are trying to bring back that hogwash after they were caught in the 70’s

[@pw7772]

@@yoatemybeans4164 what's "good" about slavery? Name me some

[@yoatemybeans4164]

@@pw7772 he didnt mean that.

[@bouboulroz]

I mean, if you don't want your children to be taught things that might let them hate their own country, a solution would be to not let your country do the hateful things. Just an idea...

[@janicel6841]

You said exactly what everyone is thinking.

[@matthewduplantis2011]

It's like the analogy of the scientific drunk. Drinks alcohol and soda every night and blames the hangovers on the soda.

[@salehsalem9638]

Funny how they're trying to teach history by rewriting history or removing it all together 😂😂

[@letsomethingshine]

"We have to get politics out of the classroom with this legislation directly from my heroic boot on your neck!" ~ says the politician.

[@mkburwell9523]

I don't think anyone that hasn't taken upper-level history classes at a university has any idea how history is actually studied/discussed and how hard of a subject it is.

[@JLMac322]

Yes exactly! People seem to think history is just a list of facts and dates you memorize. They think it is just the who, what, and when. But in fact history is much more about the whys and hows. If history was just learning "facts" as unquestionable truths, how could it exist as a discipline in which scholars are still producing scholarship? It couldn't.

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

Surroundings are important. The backstory. The people who write facts because they are paid to. Like they say, it's like an onion, the more layers revealed, the more it stinks

[@MrJB8383]

the good parts are when it was abolished

[@MikkiManson13]

except 13th amendment

[@kempbrown4402]

No, things were still pretty terrible for POC for almost another century after

[@icecreamcake6238]

@@kempbrown4402 I mean tbh... Things are still pretty terrible.

[@rickeybernard8156]

@@icecreamcake6238 I know right.

[@sharontaylor6510]

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with bulls-it. He shure is full of bulls-it!

[@jessicaarroyo8711]

@Shekel Man Well, some people don't like to curse.

[@superdude899]

@Shekel ManA censored swear word still packs a bigger punch than a regular insult.

[@superdude899]

@Shekel Man I respectfully disagree.

[@angelbabe555]

how do you keep politics out of the classroom when majority of the things that are taught in history class are inherently political ???

[@GBunch94]

How about schools just comprehensively cover the transatlantic slave trade, and students can decide for themselves what they think are the ‘good’ aspects of the mass commodification of humans?

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

Wow have you got it right

[@chelsgo8675]

"I didn't mean to imply that." Yes you did.

[@meoff7602]

Well yeah he had time to prepare his questions. That means he thoughts that one was perfect agruement.

[@gallieon8718]

Americans. Such snowflakes.

[@letsthink8245]

It's a common expression though. He probably got mixed up and I think he was just trying to save himself later so it sounded like he was more sus.

[@chriscarter9531]

This is sick asf

[@lizcollinson2692]

Censorship!

[@widdershins5383]

@@lizcollinson2692 what? Where’s the censorship? Are you just spouting catchwords?

[@choblgobblrr1074]

@@lizcollinson2692 it’s literally on the internet 🗿

[@kempbrown4402]

@Liz Collinship Search "Thought stopping Cliche". Please don't use a buzzword to shield yourself from truth

[@arrietty1619]

Slavery was immoral and it definitely deserved to be abolished. However, there’s two sides to every coin. There’s a good and a bad to everything.

[@kevintse2870]

He believed it to his bones. His body language doesn’t lie.

[@letsomethingshine]

And the stupid thing is: he is ignoring the fact that he was TAUGHT to believe it, like the many "we were never racist" white children here in Southern/rural schools. At every mention of slavery in middle school history (one day's 20 minutes for the teacher's sake really given how indoctrinated some of these children were from their very households), there would be at least one white child who simply had to get up and scream that the slaves were better off thanks to their white ancestors "saving them from Africa" or "treating them mostly well."

[@thereisnoname7839]

I can't believe that this guy says that there is good in slavery their is no good in it shame on him.

[@moridgeway]

" A fact is a fact" is not true. Facts, in some cases just like history, are written by the winner.

[@worshipdancer6312]

Most of American history was written by the victor

[@proculusjulius7035]

General Shepard vibes... I hated that character.

[@letsomethingshine]

And if facts were facts why is he telling them not to say any controversial facts or he will backwards Cancel Culture them?

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

@@worshipdancer6312 I think that is some famous 1000 year old saying. It's still true.

[@MrGreensweightHist]

Facts are still facts. He is just misrepresenting what is and isn't a fact.

[@Msis03]

It wasn't until college and minoring in Art History that I really grasped the concept and importance of teaching critical race theory, and noticed just how absent it was in my grade school curriculum. Art History delved into the cultural impact of the events of the time, and how artwork made during that time period gave an inside look to the feelings of the effected communities. This is how history classes in grade school should be taught, it truly was eye-opening for me, and helped me see just how much history classes in high school left out.

[@praises5139]

Yes the history is preserved in the art. In the attempt to erase the true narrative and replace it with a lie, hopefully they will overlook the art. The art might well become the only remaining testament to US History. Surely the books will be the first to be burned.

[@JLMac322]

EXACTLY!

[@viky1354]

cant disagree

[@annalouise3251]

Honestly it's sad that I've learned more about the bad parts of history from the internet than I did in my 12 years of public schooling 😂

[@nyandoesthings]

it wasn't until an online education program that I started learning things like that (I believe my first high school taught it in their history classes, but for some reason the counselor didn't give me my REQUIRED history class for the year so I didn't take history there). It talked about the Harlem Rennasaince (I can't spell, I apologize), the japanese and asian internment on the west coast during ww2, how different races affect our culture today and in the past (like jazz! my elementary school just mentioned 'yep black people invented jazz music' and that was basically the only thing we ever learned about black history, we didn't even learn about MLK from our teachers, we learned about it in articles from scholastic news that we weren't even supposed to read) and it's been a much better well rounded experience. Also in general the history classes sort of 'this caused that and that, which caused this and this which was also affected by societal issues at the time such as that issue' instead of 'this happened. Then this happened. Then this third thing happened.' like was taught in my elementary school. Also my elementary school taught that there wasn't any purposeful killing of natives and it was all accidental while the white people were just humble missionaries trying to save their souls, and if any kid mentioned something about purposeful killing, the teachers would basically go 'well they started it.' Makes me sick thinking about it now.

[@JAYJAYJAY53]

I would like him to show us by becoming a slave for say five years .

[@beaward9856]

5 months tops

[@brianholloway6205]

this is what happens when you try to argue the "other side" of everything. Somethings the other side is just really really really wrong.

[@San-rl5yy]

I’m just trying to imagine the amount of history that has not been taught in schools for years just because “it will make us hate ourselves” and to “keep politics out of the classroom”. Just think of people who have ought to be recognised for their good deeds or bad and here we are a whole generation that’s clueless to it. It’s scary to think one day nobody will ever know about this period of time and it will be forever forgotten and wiped off the slate never to exist!

[@tapiwakay]

She should have asked why would our history make us hate ourselves. What's so bad about it?

[@Zeno_Perceus]

@@tapiwakay some radical teachers may teach students with political ideologies instead of facts. "Hating ourselves" is presumably a side-effect

[@ashleighlittle7832]

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[@onisan2659]

He meant the good of slavery is the economic growth in a negative way

[@learnwithme5002]

@@onisan2659 what?

[@onisan2659]

@@learnwithme5002 what? Do you not get it? Slavery is very profitable in a bad way

[@broadwaysam8405]

True. “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” And that’s exactly what these good old boys want and continually do.

[@ThatSux]

If we only look at slavery from an economic point of view and ignore everything else, then in some ways it is actually "good". From an economic point of view, slavery means almost free labor. Isn't that a positive aspect of slavery? 🤔 - Why is it not even allowed to speak objectively and soberly about possible motives without being accused of playing down? Learning out of your doings is so much more than just remember what happened and call it bad.

[@TheUglyAnswers]

This man telling us how he feels about history makes my mind turn to mush.

[@heethn]

As if we need to be taught to hate republican't idealogy, really? Acknowledging wrongs committed is the 1st step toward ensuring they aren't committed again.

[@animeentranced1130]

"keep politics out of the classroom" Unless it's your politics you're fine with that right, like how awful textbooks are because they have to appeal to texas.

[@Omar-sl2tp]

No. We should just have no politics at all

[@nich6299]

“We should have no politics at all, and history is about past politics, thus we should have no history...wait..”

[@camerontaylor7177]

I haven't even watched a second of this video and I already know (from the title) which party is man is a part of.

[@lucydean4028]

Exactly! When I was a kid, my history teacher told us that black people had given nothing to this country and I disagreed. He said prove it. So I did. I spent from right after school until the public library closed writing down and printing out all of the black American leaders, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs...everything I could find. He asked me the next day if I had gotten any proof to back up my case and if so I should read it out to the class, with a smirk. I think he was trying to embarrass me. I brought out a three ring binder that I had filled with everything I had collected with references. As I started to read, he snatched it out of my hands, threw it in the garbage, and kicked me out of class for disrespect. I wasn't even allowed to have my binder back on threat of suspension. I was a 6th grade straight A student. I am black. I had never been in trouble before for anything.

[@unprofessionallyamateur6354]

Teaching kids to “hate each other”. Man I love when people go full uno reverse card. ‘Teaching people about racism actually makes them racist!!!!’ Great defence dude...

[@perry9812]

He worded it extremely poorly. Republicans really need some better speakers to make their points. He's referring to the need to also talk about the abolitionist movement and the positive steps America has taken regarding the subject of slavery. The current curriculum is all about teaching kids to hate their country and not celebrate it's defeat over the institution of slavery. We should both learn from the mistakes from the past but also celebrate the heroes who fought and died to fix those mistakes. They're all part of America's history.

[@animeotaku9110]

The male human is evolving backwards in this video

[@ashlouw5350]

🤣🤣🤣 He can't even make a valid point. Regression at its finest

[@praises5139]

Read the book: "They Were Her Slaves" Research, The organization, Daughters of The Confederate.

[@bw1678]

This has been done throughout human history. A huge portion of your curriculum is already done like this.

[@hireikana18]

The fact that he was ignorantly “brave enough” to say that ish sitting right beside a black man...says volumes

[@ChocolateTy007]

The only good part was that it ended. When slavery comes up in history the truth should be taught no matter how uncomfortable for some people it is, the truth needs to be taught so that we can understand how we got to where we are to today with systemic racism and can focus on how to change things.

[@joshuaDstarks]

You mean when it ended?

[@cupid3890]

I mean, there was nothing good about what happened after slavery ended either (except for the fact that millions got a little more autonomy)

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

Discrimination still existed like a plague at that time

[@ragingshibe]

There's no "good" in slavery. What he should say is "bittersweet".

[@shadowrealm8014]

Right ... I'm just as speechless as you are

[@kmm9035]

“Keep politics out of the classroom” government teachers be like 🤔

[@GrayAndGrey]

Teach the "Good" of slavery in schools? To "keep politics out of the classroom"? How disgusting, Garofalo.

[@justinunion7586]

“How can history - a fact is a fact” *flashbacks of the burning of the Library of Alexandria*

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@twoplustwo07]

History is written by the victors and it’s going to backfire on the GOP.

[@elisabethschmerzler963]

Actually, the Library of Alexandria survived the fire and lasted for a few hundred years. It was brought down slowly over time through the ever shifting censorship of the Christians and Caliphates. And oh boy history is very close to repeating itself!

[@bosertheropode5443]

Dont remind me on this tragedy

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

@@twoplustwo07 That didn't stop the Daughters of Confederate Veterans pushing the Lost Cause of the Confederacy into real textbooks for decades.

[@roxannemccoy4329]

Sounds like their trying to rewrite history

[@fdm2155]

The U S has a skewed history because it tends to be very Eurocentric. We know it's far from balanced. I see no reason not to address that.

[@adianchowdhury9016]

@@fdm2155 most of the inaccuracies stem from hiding American failures, that rep wants to hide more of it

[@kevin8712]

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

[@littlegothgirl8869]

@@adianchowdhury9016 no, you both are right. If our history is not hidden, then it is whitewashed.

[@GODSPEAKS898]

The Good parts of Slavery?!! What good parts? This man is out of his minds and completely IGNORANT.

[@itskinaraaa]

"Um...chile.... anyways-" 🤦🏾‍♀️😂💀

[@ocularbaker9303]

Man I hate living in louisiana

[@jacjac009]

Me too

[@H20fanatic20]

I now under why my mom left as soon as she was 18, and hasn’t been back. Has no desire to go back

[@jenniferr9624]

Me too.

[@simongrant1015]

Trying to have a more well rounded curriculum by banning certain things from being taught. Interesting

[@Snowshowslow]

That is first rate doublespeak 👌

[@oyaami1874]

Perhaps he would like the good parts of Nazism taught, they financed alot of buildings and apparently the trains ran on time.

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Hitler was very anti-smoking

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

I love it. Someone actually did a serious study, turns out the trains really did not run on time. The thousand year part had a bit of truth in it. People will hate that bunch for a thousand years

[@ChrisPage68]

@@danidejaneiro8378 And vegetarian. But gassing fellow humans was apparently OK to him.

[@mg-us7ug]

I'm an archaeologist and historian by trade. I've read some of the most damning history about my state and country one could ever hope to find. I spent years doing so. But I don't hate my country because amidst all the inhumane atrocities, there was always an event, person, place that was forced to speak truth to power. That stood when they were told to sit. That yelled when they were told to be silent. Those people, the Fannie Lou Hamers, the Howard Zinns, the James Baldwins, the Bartolomes de Las Casas, the Gloria Anzalduas, the labor marches of the late 19th-early 20th centuries, the Freedom Schools of the 1960s, the Southwest Pueblo Rebellion of 1680...all of those things, those stories, their study and appreciation are worth every effort to fight scared but powerful white men trying to limit what is taught about them and their ancestors who sat in those same seats of power before them. They are trying to make school expensive and limited, but what they don't know is that while school may be expensive, education will always be free to those who seek it, whether you're marching or simply donating to your local independent bookstore. And love your teachers - they fight for you with often meager resources and even less support. Sincerely, A Texan tired of this BS.

[@rickeybernard8156]

I remember reading history in school, and I knew it was horrible. When I went to college, however, it got worse. It was so bad I had to walk out and cry. This also happened when I watched the 13th. My friend watched it too. His friend watched it with him, and she was white. She asked if she needed to leave that it hurt even her. That's how evil it was, but he wants to censor that.

[@bobthet-rex2718]

I have been brought to tears reading history more times than I can count. Then my soul fills with a hot fury knowing that people want to erase it.

[@rickeybernard8156]

@@bobthet-rex2718 I completely understand that. Imagine if the Trail of Tears and the Holocaust is erased. This country is already racist. It could happen again.

[@controlman7490]

Yea since my schools didn't teach me everything about American slavery, I did my own research. Man, slavery in America was just insanely cruel slaves would be, tortured, raped, murdered, and even bred, which sounds super weird to talk about humans that way.

[@rickeybernard8156]

@@controlman7490 they didn't see slaves as human. That's how they justify it. Django lightly touched on the brutality of it, and I believe that the ones who speak positively about it are monsters.

[@controlman7490]

@@rickeybernard8156 Django unchained touched on a few aspects of slavery, but it was mostly meant to be a funny movie. However, there's 1 movie that seriously depicted slavery to its core and that's 12 years a slave, and man that movie broke me when I first watched it.

[@Heathen.Deity.]

I don’t know the guy at all, so I don’t know if he simply got his argument a little garbled by wanting to teach “the good, the bad and the ugly” as the phrase goes, but if there’s one topic not to couple that with.... 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@luna-p]

Even though I think it was just a poor choice of words in the moment, that is still basically his argument - he thinks acknowledging that slavery was an atrocity with devastating repercussions makes America look bad, and that making America look bad should be illegal. But it was bad, and that's a fact, not an opinion. His opinion is what should be kept out of the classroom

[@Heathen.Deity.]

@@luna-p true, plus I think he realised that, given his argument was shot down in 5 words.

[@meoff7602]

@@luna-p He trying to ban teaching about slavery in a way he doesn't like. He had no agruement. He had time to prepare that speech. He honestly thought it was a good agruement until it got destroyed with a single sentence. The issue is about critical race theory being taught and America looking bad. Of course it teaches younger generation to hate America. Now why would that be. Couldn't be our Constitution was written by a bunch of dirty f****** slave owners.

@Mynameis Mine duh to slave owners and white supremacists but that's not a good thing is it

[@ea7109]

@Mynameis Mine I don't really think he'd want it taught in school that America was FULLY built on the blood of slave's 🤣🤣🤣🤣. That would 'tarnish' the image of the US that these people want to sell!! He wants it sanitised and hopefully erased!!