Susan Rice in 1986 book: Make white students learn black history

[erinpuff]

Charles C. Johnson
The Daily Caller

In a 1986 book by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, the future diplomat argued for the aggressive inclusion of a black history curriculum in American schools, claiming that its omission had “crippling effects” by “providing a child with no more than … a white interpretation of reality

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I know, right?

[jazzypom]

I did my (primary to tertiary) education in the West Indies, and at all turns, I had to learn European and American history, in addition to my own. Because according to the white paper of the country I grew up in, that the children had to be educated 'for flight' (because my country of birth is like the Irish when it comes to emigration; we have more people outside of the country who id as our nationality than on the island itself). It's given me a rounded perspective, and when you compare that with white people I've met online (and in real life) who aren't aware of anything beyond the Joan of Arc and the Great Wars, it's actually a joke. History isn't so white, and it's great that as time goes on, history in its telling has gotten more nuanced (with the input of women, people of colour, trans* issues, etc) and a hell of a lot more interesting to read.

What's bad about teaching another perspective, hey?

I remember on ONTD when someone said that children in some Southern states were taught that the South won the American Civil War.

WHAT?

Re: I know, right?

[executivehpfan]

See, this makes sense to me. I don't get the bad thing about teaching multiple perspectives, or denying a certain ethnic group THEIR OWN MOTHERFUCKING PERSPECTIVE ALSDJFOAISDJGISODGJ.