‘Genuine anger, outrage’: 300 Alabama high school students say Black history lesson was censored
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2023
- Three hundred Alabama high school students walked out of class after what they describe as racism and censorship of a Black history program. Christina Greer, political scientist and host of ‘The Blackest Questions’ podcast by The Grio, joins Joy Reid with her analysis.
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Tyranny is in keeping the public ignorant. Freedom is in educating them.
Every time I see a story here, I have to go someplace else to find out what really happened.
@@kelperdude this is your
job, troll.
74 rubles to 1$usd today😂
@@kelperdude the someplace where "get off of my lawn" and "im not racist" go to yell about nonsense. you're so fragile you need a whitewashed version.
@@spectral-nuisance - I looked elsewhere and did find that the people were not told that.
Is that why Democrats are so ignorant?
Erasing black history is dangerous.
Not dangerous for the white people in charge, which is the point of course.
I totally agree with you
Yep we have to keep rebutting the fascists.
But it is very GQP republican !
Everywhere fascists go, history disappears.
Amen! My white Grandaughter read about Rosa Parks in third grade., A biography, “who was Rosa Parks” she was hooked! This fall we took her to Washington DC and we toured the Black History Museum, breathtakingly brilliant! She read every description. So keep it up ladies, you have allies!
When you know more you do better. Ignorance is NOT bliss it breeds hatred and exclusion
We have our Voice. I am from New Mexico And I believe in passing the Word telling my fellow class mate And You know what We do not know how good we have til it is gone and Republicans are trying their darndest to take our civil rights away. Keep on keeping on. Spread the Word.
As a black man who was born in 1977, I don't have any recollection of the Civil Rights Movement, of course! But my parents, aunts, and uncles were proactive members of the movement. My parents taught me and my sister at an early age the struggles black people had to endure. They, too, are over 70 years old. We live in Louisiana. My parents had it hard in the 60's and 70's. I am so blessed to have a mother and father that are griot (Griots in the black communities are basically a walking and talking encyclopedia. They are a repository of oral tradition.)
You need to write it down. The elders are passing away and this country is trying to actively rewrite black American history before our eyes WHILE they are living! The disrespect is insane!
@@sparklesp9304 Yes! These experiences, accounts, and histories need to be preserved.
I am 77 years old, and most of my life, i have been trying to teach, our children. I was in the movement also, i was born in ATLANTA, GEORGIA, and attended, EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, AS A CHILD. Us children was around, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, we were furnished our own areas, to listen and learn.DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Yes, and also there were White people , taking and capturing black people, to become, Slaves, inwhich also means BONDAGE.
@@sparklesp9304 Ya know......I've never thought of it in that way. To your credit, you are 100% correct. It was just our way of life. My sister and I graduated from an HBCU. So, in essence, we were ALWAYS around individuals who were a part of our history. But, honestly, I've never seen it through your eyes.
Well, as a white guy who lived through the 50s and 60s - I was 18 in 1970, 70 now - I can say it is absurd to ignore the struggles against racism which occurred before 1970. Were the people saying this crap even alive before 1970? This old white Vietnam era vet is sick of the fascist racism going on in my country right now.
Thank you for your service. The way the Vietnam vets were treated when you got home is a disgrace. We all agree that we shouldn’t have been there, but the vets shouldn’t have been made to suffer.
@@reneem3895 Exactly. The politicians made the call, not our veterans.
@@bjdefilippo447 And none of their children were drafted. Bone spurs tRump is a perfect example.
Born 1960 I am disgusted with the racist thinking it's okay to do & say what they want. I was a weird child I watched the news & saw the Kennedy & King assassination's.
@@reneem3895 He said Vietnam Era vet not Vietnam vet. I went in in 1976 and I’m a Vietnam Era vet.
I'm Chinese American I I thank my parents for being too cheap to pay for cable because it made me watch channels like PBS where they're not afraid to tackle Black History Month. This was in the 1990s, I watched Reading Rainbow and Wishbone who had great episodes about slavery, segregation, and civil rights. And I learned all this in elementary. I think children learning about Black History, learning about slavery and civil rights makes them more empathetic to their fellow American.
That's precisely it. They don't want empathy or any concern for anyone other than themselves. If that mattered then they would not disregard things concerning black people under a blanket term like "woke" and make it a bad thing.
Didn't have cable for the first 2/3rds of my childhood, though because it wasn't available in our area until the mid-80s; PBS was most definitely part of my upbringing, and your assessment of its educational value is spot on.
Reading Rainbow and Wishbone were a smidge after my time (just a tad too old for Reading Rainbow when it started, Wishbone was a decade later), though thankfully both were a part of my children's early education; I at least got to enjoy The Electric Company at the proper age.
Those were two of my absolute FAVORITE SHOWS lol i also loved Bill Nye the Science Guy. Came on at 5pm after wishbone aired at 4. 😂😂 i was only about 4 or 5 myself.
The Electric Company, Sesame Street, The more you Know(NBC), School House Rock(ABC) were all part of me understanding there all types of people in the world that didn't look like me, empathy, thinking & the ability to read about what they said. Proud to say, my son has risen above my education on social issues & fights the good fight.
You are so right. I wish more people would watch PBS. It's informational instead of political. In every way there are so many programs and NPR. Some of their programs are interviews. They're absolutely excellent, but not that many people watch them compared to how many people watch standard news.
We can never let history die. This is where the lessons are.
But but but looking at history will require thinking - even critical thinking - to evaluate what happened and why. Can't have kids swanning about thinking independently, now, can we? /s
Hello
No, but we can erase history by tearing down statues and canceling people we disagree with.
It's the liberal democrat way!
Absolutely disgusting how the FL government has been behaving. DeSantis and all his ilk need to go. I’ve been trying for years to convince those around me to vote them all out. It’s so hard to convince them when they’re only getting their news from one source😢 I’m ashamed of this state. The ignorance is all consuming. Sadly, due to health issues and lack of money I can’t move out of it.
I wouldn't want to be a teacher if I was under the threat of being arrested for teaching facts!
There needs to be a walkout from teachers in every state
@@sheilab1772 Just close all public schools, they are a waste of time and money.
Teachers haven't been teaching facts for a very long time. That's why we have a couple generations of kids that feel entitled and don't even know what gender they are.
@@sheilab1772 Student funding needs to go with the student.....REGARDLESS OF RACE.
Ian Reed if that was the case,every teacher that teaches CRT or transgenderism would already be out of a job. Every drag queen that teaches would be gone.
"IF YOU DON'T KNOW BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY, YOU DON'T KNOW AMERICAN HISTORY! SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!"
Yes, if our faults are not owned up to then there will be no need to improve ourselves.
Good comment Hayes!
I’m white and I agree 100%. History should be accurate and inclusive.
I’m white. My trouble with that phrase is it separates Black …as if there is American History with Black as a subset. I need to tell myself “Without Black Americans…there is no American History.”…I need this reframing in my brain.
I try to remember to think “Enslaved Americans”. …Not “Blacks” or “the Slaves”
My mental image of America is white,
so I need to reframe that…the boards are warped though.
It’s impossible to imagine the lost opportunities …the friendships we didn’t have,
the talent we didn’t develop, the neighbors we didn’t know… (Who are ‘we’?)
I am less for these loses, in awkward foggy ways that I don’t know, I don’t know.
The soul of America..is it not black? What does that mean…I don’t know?
Does it not Lift Every Voice? What does that mean…I don’t know.
I don’t know, what I don’t know….
so I need to read…to learn what I don’t.
@connardcyndi1769 Your comment is spot on. I agree 💯 👍 percent. Thank You ❤️😊
Thank goodness our nation's young people are making their voices heard! Black history NEEDS to continue to be taught in schools!!! And, book banning must stop!!! To stop this madness, vote blue every chance you get! 💙
Why would you vote for racist democrats? They want to ban guns when blk gun ownership is on the rise. Your afraid of armed blks so you can repeat history of owning them.
We need to teach our kids at home our history frfr
Democrats were trying to uphold slavery sweet heart remember that
@Ann Johnson: Saying book banning must be stopped cannot be worded as a sound bite. What books are being banned and why and by whom? Atheists and others are seeking to ban the Bible. Parents don’t want their little children exposed to pornography in class or in the school library. Conservatives don’t want their children told to hate themselves. There are Black Conservatives. Blacks were originally mostly Republicans till the 1960’s, for 100 years. What changed? Ask Democrat President Lyndon Johnson.
Kudos to the AL students who walked out of school in protest! I did the same back in the day (for other reasons), and believe they were right to draw attention to this overt act of racism. Stay strong, young people: you are the path to a better world.
As a lifelong educator and current principal I would be beaming with pride... One-hundred-percent fight the good fight against this fascism daily and my school and will continue to do so will continue to support my educators and every way possible and continue to support my diverse student population. DeSantis is such a piece of s*** and any politician who thinks you can erase history is wrong.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
"Those seeking to erase history are attempting to repeat it." -- Me, the last 40 years.
Gee, I never heard that one before.
That quote is from 1905. American history started in 1970.
@@publicuser2534 last year according to the GOP Donald I live a Dream.. What BS
"Those who refuse to learn from history condemn ALL OF US to repeat it", just like the Republicans are trying to force us to relive German History from the 1930s
They are not trying to erase the suffering -- they are trying to erase what students could learn about fighting united for change.
We need more people uniting and protesting. We the people need to start sending MAJOR messages to congress
@@ZeroFcksGven And to state governors and legislatures. Those are the scum who are responsible for these racist laws.
As a black man I was glad to hear Florida banning Black History courses that also included LBGTQ+ history. It’s black history.
Let them have their own history course. What does sexual orientation have anything to do with the Civil Rights movement💁🏿♂️👎🏿💯
@@mananimal3644 you are definitely not black clown. You trolls will say anything
@@mananimal3644 Of course there's no LGBTQ+ people in the black community, and civil rights is a movement exclusive to black people.
This is outrageous. I am a 74 year old white woman. I took a course in Black history in college. I was the only white woman in the class. As a nursing major I wanted to know about everybody I could to take care of them properly, plus how can you not be interested in people who have thrived in spite of the way they have been treated as sub-human? People need to mature past this "different" is bad kind of thinking.
Children walking out of class to protest censorship is a brilliant idea. Students should be prepared to accept responsibility for their own education through action in order to force recognition of themselves as Human Beings, deserving of equal rights and not just property to be discussed and ignored. Hopefully this will spread throughout the U.S.A.
I agree.
That's why school choice is a necessity.
@@kelperdude School choice is a necessity for billionaires like Betsy Devos* for everyone else it's a disaster.
@@kelperdude That's a Hard No, look how you turned out.
@@kelperdude So you must have been a spoiled rich kid ....no wait your a troll on any important issue ...go away gop bot !!
From a Florida resident I applaud these kids.
Keep fighting the good fight down there
The one sane Floridian (is that a word?). Haha!
@@danscant7752 I couldn't have said your comment better than you just did! It's sad that I can only give you one thumbs up! 🥺
These kids have more character than anyone in the south. Keep at it young people. The generations are changing our world, as they always have.
I'll never understand why ppl WOULDN'T want to discover why they think the way they do. 🤔
The good news is next year many of those young people will be eligible to vote,so REGISTER and VOTE fascists out!!🇺🇸💪🏾👏🏾
Yesssssssssssssssss
You got that right.
Lmao
@@morriskode I bet this is a Marjorie Taylor Greene sock account, considering that brilliant response
Agreed, rid the state of the last of the Dems.
As a young mother of three in the early sixties, I was steadfast in my refusal to remove my oldest son (the only one in school at the time) from his newly integrated school in rural Alabama. So I applaud those students for walking out. Doing nothing and saying nothing is never the right thing.
As a retired history teacher, I took great pride in constructing and offering my version of US History during February's Black History Month.
I set aside the text and conducted daily lectures from the History books and journals authored by black historians. Factual. I was willing to face termination by circumventing school district curriculum in order to tell the true story of black history articulated by black historians.
I brought all my books into my classroom for the students to checkout as each was given an assignment to read and write a summary of the book they read due before March 1.
The exam was constructed from my lectures. All students were offered note taking lessons as well and were permitted to use their notes during the exam.
The surprise by most of the students were accompanied by their joy of finally learning Factual historical events authored by black historians and ancestors of the race.
You sir, are a great teacher, even now. You remind us that every single one of us can make a difference in our own way! Thank you 🤗❤️
Kudos to you, sir. You served your students well to prepare them for the real world.🧑🏫
@Deborah Lonergan thank you I have done humble best, but truth be told I have learned much more about myself through my experiences with my students.
@Amy Hayutin thank you for kind words. Teachers who join the discipline of education do so for only one reason; to inspire greatness in their students
So you taught them facts like this?
There were more white slaves in North Africa and the Middle East than there were in North America. And for centuries longer. White people were taken out of the Balkans as slaves for 600 years. Those white slaves had higher death rates and lower reproductive rates than black slaves in North America. White slaves were twice as likely to die in a caravan as black slaves in ships, and white galley slaves had living conditions worse than any of them.
1/3rd of free black men in Louisiana were slave owners and the first slave owner in the 13 colonies was black.
Critical Thinking and Knowledge scares the ignorant…
I was born in 1957 Texas so this is for Black History Month. When I was 12 my daddy took me to a restaurant that had a pinball machine. I loved pinball and asked daddy if I could play. The child of the cook was already playing, so I was waiting patiently for my turn. The cook's child offered to play a game with me. I was thrilled. My daddy came over and pulled me away from the pinball machine. He told me to stay away from that boy. I was one of those annoying children who insisted on an explanation before they obeyed. Daddy said that my playing pinball with that black boy would get him hurt. I was a naive girl. That day was an awakening for me. My whiteness was a danger to another child that I only wanted to play pinball with.
Or his blackness. I for one appreciate the empathy you show for others. Have a great day!!
Keep on telling it to the idiots Paula. Thank you.
@@THATBOISHAD I don't understand that first part. Are you saying, "his blackness" "was a danger to another child..." and then going on to express your appreciation for their empathy?
Thank you for speaking up
😂
Thank god for America’s youth. The old racists running much of the country are just awful.
And the racist idiots who elect them.
Right.
YEah, the young racists that spread anti unity hate, burn cars and rob stores while they "peacefully" protest are so so much nicer.
It's about time someone protested about the censoring of our history! Nice to see the youth step up! Bravo!
The "racists" are mostly in the democràt party!
I'm of an age to remember the campus unrest during the '60's which was due in part to the Vietnam war, but also included anger over corporate America's influence on curriculum and their attempt to mold students into cogs for the machine. I hope today's students in both K-12 and colleges can summon the energy necessary to counter these attempts by politicians across the country to give them only a dumbed-down, narrow-minded and white-washed education which will ill prepare them to become the empathetic and compassionate citizens this country needs. In the words of Mario Savio when speaking about the Machine, "......You've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop". Resistance to tyranny is a beautiful thing.
I thought history was learning about the past? As a 68 year old I’ve now learned from the USA that history only started in 1970. Thank you.🇨🇦
"The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said 🙄 it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves."
~ Marian Wright Edelman, American lawyer, activist, writer, and founder of the Children's Defense Fund
I taught a Black teen in my chemistry class. He aced every test I gave and he always told me that he was afraid he would fail. This student athlete was smart and hard-working and he doubted himself because of what society told him, only because of the color of his skin. That is the damage our country does. It steals the truth and fills our children with lies. Keep fighting the good fight. We will fight shoulder to shoulder.
@@j.n.sloane. I wonder what on earth in "society" taught him that.
The student probably learned it from his parents.
@Queen NitaBo "oppression that exists towards us"
Are you still oppressed? if so...
Who's oppressing you?
@@milehighgimpster You clearly are not prepared to listen to an answer, so why bother to ask your stupid questions?
@@milehighgimpster Real question. What makes you willing to bet that the Black student's parents were the ones who taught him he would fail? The chemistry teacher didn't hint that, yet you deduced it. Can you explain why?
I grew up in a totally white Indiana farm land, we were taught some of the issues but until I saw kunta kinti series at about 17 did I really understand the way we treated black people. I didn't even understand the forced bussing. I already had to ride the bus an hour just to get to school. Then I joined the military.... When we flew to Utah on a mission, we had a black crew member, that's when I saw racism at it's finest.
Everybody else was getting served but us. After 5 other tables got served ahead of us, I had had enough. That's when the BS , oh we're sorry. Yadda. Learning the plight of black people is crucial to acceptance of everyone. Please love and care for all.
I grew up in a black neighborhood, the stores never ran out of work boots and condoms
@@PiggerNussyStank 🇷🇺🫵🏽
hate farmer
I understand you. I grew up in a city suburb and racism was never discussed. I did have friends of all races and religions, but again, racism wasn't there between us or our parents. I remember ROOTS and it was a powerful miniseries (sad they tried to remake that Masterpiece, the original is still superior). That was my first introduction to the history of slavery. All my friends watched that series and we talked about it.
I was fortunate enough to see it when I was 8; That combined with _Blazing Saddles_ set me right.
Not perfect; But certainly know the _wrong answers_ when I hear them.
Stop voting blue.
Imagine your treatment of other human beings being so vile, evil, and disgusting, that you try to hide it.
As a Black man , I am concerned that African history not be swept under the rug. It is impossible, and the African community won't let that happen.
Hiding the past should be an "actual" crime. I was born in 1964. This was a time I lived through. When school teachers taught us the truth. This insanity and ignorance in our country is simply appalling. Knowing the history of our country is a God given right.
When they ban those books, they are doing the new age version of book burning.
I mean... they're also literally burning books in Florida.
Yep and smart kids are going to use their smart phones and read those books any way. Talk about turning kids against you!!!!
We should all post the names of the banned books we support on our social media and buy copies to boost the sales especially if they are POC authors!
It's like they are compleyely unaware Amazon, Kindle, libraries and book stores exist. 🤷♀️
Watch the dystopian movie Nineteen Eighty-four, based on the novel by George Orwell, written in 1949. It's about totalitarianism, thought-policing, and book-burning.
My son lives in Tuscaloosa and teaches history at the university. I taught English in college. We had a long back and forth about DeSantis decision because I was infuriated at the seeming lack of response from history teachers. He sent me two responses from history teachers across the country signed by hundreds of teachers
What he said was, “People are responding but you just don’t hear about it.” He also said that the College Board was itself a bit of a racket because the courses aren’t actually taught in college when students get there. What bothers me the most is the seeming agreement or passive acceptance of this kind of overt shutting off of speech and reading and intellectual inquiry in the name of “protecting our children.” This is the same argument used by all authoritarians in history. White Americans think they are protecting their what? Children? Their social inheritance? Their specialness? Meanwhile, people like DeSantis are using them and ripping off their kids’ education, making sure their children will even more racist and dumber than their parents. What a legacy! You cannot make your children better educated by hiding from reality and history. You only guarantee that they will be victims of those who know how to manipulate their fears.
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The perfect answer
Well said
Oh I'll be sure to teach my kids about Africa selling slaves in 2023
What he said was, “People are responding but you just don’t hear about it.”
I just watched an HBO docuseries on HULU called "Agents of Chaos". I hope all who have not seen it are able to track it down there or elsewhere. Yes the title sounds more than a little flamboyant, but it may be one of the most fact based, understandable stories I have digested about what has happened in bulk of the last decade to America. Mind you, it has only a very little to do with this specific topic, but it effects it, and it has left me, for much of the week, almost frozen, emotionally, in this deep concern about how much we actually don't hear about. Now, we may not being hearing about it because resistance to this ban on history you are talking about is simply in a mounting stage, not an action based one. I grant that. But, should you decide to watch it, you will understand why it immediately sprung to mind when I read that sentence. I firmly believe that the revelations in it need to be discussed because we are not very well informed. Even those of us who are avid news watchers are not very well informed. Not in any way that creates a timeline of recent history in our minds and an understanding of just what we are ALL experiencing now. I repeat, it will disturb you and there are no clear solutions that it poses. But it speaks a truth I simply hadn't realized mattered until I sat down and took the time. Thank you for your comment. I agree whole heartedly.
I told myself that I wish students themselves will protest on this. Now, my wish came true. Good luck students! Bravo! Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
I went to an all white school in the 80s and saw firsthand the ignorance and racism that exists in my hometown and its sad and sick considering most of these people then go to church on Sundays and convince themselves they are Christian...keeping children ignorant is the aim of adults who are afraid that they will develop critical thinking skills and see right thru their bs agendas...I am a white middle aged suburban mom of 3 Boys and I will be damned if I will allow them to grow up ignorant about our past and non accepting of other people..being white doesn't entitle you to anything...
♥️ does my heart good to see these future leaders getting involved ♥️
@saramill2097 🍆🇷🇺💩🫵🏽🌻🪦
@Sara Mill Ask yourself that question. Why does it bother you? And what kind of person does that make you?
@Sara Mill
CPAC now starring :
kitara santos, 💅🏻the official drag queen of the GQP
@Sara Mill I pity people like you. It must get exhausting being constantly outraged, filled with fear and hate.
@Sara Mill "A racist piece of human trash" was the answer we were looking for.
Florida needs to stop banning books. Every time I see some place banning books, I go out and buy a copy to make sure my kids will always have access to it. I'm running out of cash, Florida!
I think it's just two counties, Sarasota and Duval, but it's insane. Thank you for buying them! We can't let these facists win.
@@openyourmind3763 There were 1,600 books banned in 138 districts in 32 states just last school year. I haven't caught up cause $20 times 1,600 is almost a year's salary but I do my best if I can find a decent used copy. The Repubs need to chill out though. Who bans 4 books a day? Those who fear knowledge will free their oppressed, that's who!
That's a great idea, I might start doing that... if they ever burn books, your kids will have the last copy! Invaluable!
These children are more grown up than the children serving in our government. This is RIDICULOUS!
Here in MN, my (white) 11th grader is taking a class entitled “American History through an African American Lens.”
He chose this class, and does NOT feel minimized as a white person in any way.
I’m proud of him and our school district!
If the students want to talk about why they walked out, it would be illegal for anyone at the school to talk to them about that topic.
They all need to go talk to their state legislature about it. Really. All of them should go on the same day. If a crowd shows up, call local news and talk about it with them.
@mike carson Yeah, we really have a big problem with young people, in high school and not old enough to vote, not turning out at the polls.
I want to learn about how the Democrat Party fought to keep slavery and then started the KKK when they lost that battle.
@@Tiber2017 And then how the conservatives who made up that party later on all defected to the *Republican* Party, leaving pretty much all the progressives and "bleeding heart" liberals to make up the Democrat Party of today - the very one guys like you hate. Nice try, but not even close!
@@Tiber2017 As long as it's taught accurately by pointing out they were the more conservative party of the time, aka the southern switch. It's always right-wingers.
@@furiousapplesack Klan member Robert Byrd remained a Democrat Senator until his death in 2010. He was Joe Biden’s mentor.
Young people give us hope, from the 2022 mid-terms to the contemporary changes to the educational curriculum.
Its no wonder Republicans want to raise the voting age
I'm white with a degree in Black Studies from Fresno State class of 2006. It's the best thing I ever did in my life...
Saying nothing and doing nothing will get you, NOTHING!
How can you tell students to forget black history before 1970s and some of them have relatives( parents,grandparents,aunts, uncles,cousins and great grandparents ), church/ community leaders that lived before 1950 still alive
True!! It's alright for white children to know JFK and Bobbie were murdered but not Rev. Dr Martin Luther King for whom we have a national holiday? And other civil rights workers who were beaten and killed? FASCISTS.
It's insanity, especially IN the South. The elders who fought the Civil Rights Movement are still alive!
A great act of resistance would be for these kids to be the historians and record those firsthand accounts while said relatives are still with us.
During covid lockdown some parents I know began having storytime with their children connectioning family photos .
Family trees were started via family zoom and facetime with older relatives as they revealed their experiences which made the children anxious to start reading about black history the facts...some said in school the focus is Martin Luther King Jr., Barrack Obama, Rosa Parks,Frederick Douglas, and athletes.
Critical thinking - the other national deficit.
Common sense as well
That's one deficit ceiling they have no trouble raising.
Reminder Fox News literally causes brain damage. It's been proven to shrink grey matter (tied to critical thinking) and it SWELLS the right amigdala (produces FEAR.)
Gen Z to our country’s rescue hopefully.
History isn't supposed to be comfortable, it's to be learned so you dont repeat the mistakes.
I do not want to live in a world that does not have a place for the Dignity of Sidney Potier, the Brilliance of Neil DeGrass Tyson, the Humanity of Oprah Winfrey, the Soul of Ray Charles, or the Music and Magic of Jon Batiest.
I think it's absolutely horrifying and very sad that THIS is where we are in our progress for equality and resistance against hate and ignorance. How many people actually believe that denying the historical struggles of another is legitimate??
What are people so afraid of??
Their own condemnation by thier own piers in the historical record
How many? Millions--tens of millions of USA Americans.
Slave revolts by Black militants.
It is legitimate.
No-one cares.
We fought a Civil War.
The issue is over.
Let's talk about the black slave owners
Many white people are afraid of change simply because they've been told to be. Sadly, they don't know enough to think for themselves but listen to their so-called "leaders" for direction. It's pitiful that people can be so easily swayed. Ironically, many of these folks are dirt poor themselves, undereducated, and misinformed. It's not like their lives will improve by keeping people of color down. But they don't get it. They choose to remain ignorant. That's exactly what gives power to monsters like trump, Desantis, and Abbott. VOTE BLUE!
I don't understand this, when I was going to school they literally showed us videos of black protesters being sprayed with water cannons and attacked by dogs, and all kinds of videos showing acts of discrimination and brutality against blacks, they even included videos of the Holocaust as well. This opened my eyes as a young child, it hurt to see people hurting other people that look like my friends. Racism is such an ugly thing, it has no real place in the human heart. It is such a tragedy that we can't take these things seriously and try to eradicate them.
Right. They had us watching Roots in elementary.
Even the majority of white Americans aren't going to let Conservatives walk back racial equality in this country, even if it benefited them directly. Most of us don't need a system that disadvantages other people in order to succeed here; we're not that weak and ignorant. Most of us know that equality is morally righteous, and that even condoning anything less is deeply harmful and hurtful to our entire society.
Seriously this is just absolutely so disgusting , ridiculous , pathetic and sad that they are doing this . I dont know how they are getting away with it or why any parent would want their child to be so ignorant and not be taught the truth and have such an empty education .
Omg students in EVERY school should do this. I hope this starts happening every day at hundreds of different schools. Like, all across the country, not just there.
Every HS in Florida (and nationwide, for that matter) should have "Beloved" as a must-read English novel requirement. It is a literary masterpiece by Toni Morrison. (A novel that details the horrors of slavery by itself).
A GOVERNMENT CANNOT HIDE THE TRUTH.
America's history has many stories, and when you leave out a story of perseverance and struggle you do students wrong.
I am from Alabama and old enough to remember the Civil Rights struggle when our fountains was labeled "colored and "white", the black families couldn't come and sit down in a restaurant they had to pick their food at the back. They could not try clothes on in a store and if it didn't fit you could not return it. They lived in their on neighborhood and attended their own school.
That they overcame this is a story worth telling, and by the way the Civil War was not over "State Rights" it was over "Slavery".
Love your newscast. You are preaching to the choir, and we need to find out how to reach the people outside the choir.
My mom got my sister and I library cards darn near before we were born! The only way to keep our society heading forward is to read and hear everything we can. Otherwise, we will become less involved, less curious, and less able to make our own paths in this world. And black and minority authors and books on black and minority lives make that a bounty of knowledge!
They don’t want knowledge, they want people that are too afraid to think for themselves. Simply put, knowledge is power, and they are too fragile to let there be knowledge!
A library card is especially important in Florida where, as far as I know, public libraries still have books. School libraries and classrooms, on the other hand often have bare shelves or the books are covered up because of draconian penalties teachers and school librarians face if an unapproved book is found. Fascism and the waste of our taxpayer dollars for campaign type stunts are flourishing in Florida under DeSatan and his sycophants in the legislature.
I don't see it as fragility. I see it as a way to bolster fascist white supremacy.
Of course in some states, the right is going after public libraries. If they had their way, no kid would ever read 1984 or Animal Farm again. They don’t want people to know their tactics.
@@judywood5026 For whatever reason it *is* suppression, and oppression! High time this stopped!!! Their fear is *real*!!!
Chicano students had walkouts in California in the 1960s. It's disappointing that Black students have to do the same just to learn their history 60 years later
The Chicano movement was a drop in the bucket copy cat joke. Black society in the 1960s define civil rights in the US. Latinos are just as anti black and racist.
NO WE still have to do it just to learn ALL history. My question is why white students aren't doing the same.
Chicanos also rioted to be classified as white LOL!
@myopinion2752 Why do you keep suggesting this has only been a fight for 60 years?? Therein lies the problem. We have failed in teaching history correctly and trustfully since day one.
@myopinion2752 What country is this that recognizes black people for anything other than sports and entertainment. Entertainment is limited to music, comedy and dance. We had a mixed race president. And a mixed race Vice President. There were more black congressmen during reconstruction than now. So you see how even OUR allies are not really our allies?
I love how some politicians keep thinking students are as dumb as they themselves are.
It is sickening. How are we ever going to understand one another if we don't understand how we got to where we are right now?
One thing that I wish someone would research is the effect of desegregation on students. I was a product of this program and it helped me understand and learn about the effects of racism and learn how we are all just people. Desegregation was an important part of my education and WHY isn't it ever discussed? You come to know people and you realize that they have the same hopes, dreams, loves, and abilities as you do. THAT breaks down barriers. THAT is what heals. I have such deep respect for Black Americans because despite all the pain, cruelty and injustice they have suffered, they still believe in the American ideals and promise of a brighter future. THAT is what a REAL American is all about. We recognize that evil exists, racism exists, and we roll up our sleeves and fight shoulder to shoulder for a better world. CAN DO, America. Get to work.
I grew up during the fifties and sixties and I can't imagine how you can talk about where we are now with out talking about black contributions to our history. I want my grandchildren to know these things because they are what made this culture and history, my culture and history. I'm white. I
They also don't want the contributions and inventions of black people to be known. They want to pretend that only whites contributed to science and the economy. Bullies are cowards. I'm white in Alabama as well in my 70s. I lived that history as well. I'm ashamed of and for these cowards.
Ask a German high-schooler their history and you'll get a painfully detailed reply. If Germans teach pre-1945 history, it seems American educators should do better.
Totally agree! If you don’t know black history, you don’t know American History.
There are dozens of reasons why one would NOT want to be a teacher. This is just one more of them.
Or for a good teacher, it makes us want to be a teacher even more!!
If you make them forget, they won't see the signs its happening again! "Those who don't learn from History is bound to repeat it" People our History is apart of American history!
Exactly
Republicans don’t want anyone to see the signs they’re doing it again.
Our history is American history,we helped create the refrigeration unit for field medical purposes in the military,we created the coupling system for train cars which is how the phrase the real McCoy came from,we invented the prototype that serves as the basis for CCTV, security,bodycam and ring doorbell cameras,we invented the first super computer,the first video game system and perfected it,made remote controls a reality then made infrared remotes, taught the Greeks philosophy, politics, poetry, science and speech techniques but they're called the fathers of Western civilization. We're involved in everything in every culture before Vespucci ever came to America, before Columbus thought about sailing. Why deny us these truths that are historical facts in European countries?
Frankly, an important part of knowing about Rosa Parks, means you also learn she wasn't the first to do that, and just who was Claudette Colvin, and why is it we all were told about Rosa Parks and not Claudette Colvin?🤔
Good for them. I would have walked out with them. Protest IS patriotic. These attempts at rewriting American history are disturbing and Orwellian.
Also loved the remarks by Christina. When I was growing up in Australia 70s and 80s, the history of what happened between our first nations peoples and the settlers (mainly white Europeans who actually attempted genocide in my reading) was papered over in school history teaching. As a result, we kids saw the indigenous black people who, by the way have been here for more than 60,000 years, as others and outside of normal society.
As a result of decades of effort and good will on all sides, this history has been firmly acknowledged, accounted for and indigenous culture and people are now celebrated here.
So it can be done.
Wishing you the best America
Thank you American needs all the prayers we can get peace
Indeed. As an Australian Teacher I can confirm the Indigenous curriculum is ever growing. And now for the Voice to Parliament! ❤🇦🇺
Same thing happened in Canada. Things are changing, attitudes are changing oh but the damage that was done!
Isn't America a MULTIETHNIC Country??? Everyone's story should be told, from African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic/Latino American, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans. Everyone has Contrubuted to this Country, & those Contributions should be Celebrated.
*The Truth : Before 1970, 95% of Black homes had two parents and a steady income from working.*
Once you can erase a people's history then it becomes easier to erase them.
Why does it appear that the country is going backwards instead of forward??
Because you haven't studied enough of where the country has been.
It's a sad day in our history to come when ignorance and bigotry are more important than knowing and understanding others through their history and experiences.
Great jobs kids! I’m proud of you all for that ❤ Stand up 😊
In other words what the Republiklan party is saying:
“If you are a minority then you aren’t a priority”
GOOD FOR THEM👍
ALL BLACK STUDENT'S & THERE PARENT'S CONTINUE THE GOOD FIGHT🖤🖤🖤
@Chad Abercrombie
AGREE!!!
I know you are aware of where we rank in the world when it come's to education!!!
As for me it will get better,
I still believe in this thing called HOPE.
You make it a Great weekend👍👍👍
We all need to come together for the good fight.
@Sara Mill
WANT BLACK HISTORY
NOT WHITE TRASH!!!
The GOP are ashamed of their history and how Black people were treat and so they should be. History is how we all learn, however the GOP do not think so. I am white and live in the UK, one person I would have loved to have been able to meet is James Meredith. What a hero he was along with many others.
I'm ashamed of the state in which I was born, the state in which I currently live, and the political state of the country that has always proclaimed itself to be the beacon of freedom, equality, and the seat of democracy in the world.
How can we have a democracy without representation and education of the citizenry?
When people in power start banning books. That should be a sign for the public to buy and read those books.
I read those books growing up. And I appreciate it every day.
I don't believe you can become a well rounded individual without learning about other races, cultures, religions and regions, along with their history. I have found that this knowledge has made me a more empathetic, compassionate and understanding human being. If this knowledge makes one feel guilty, then perhaps they should feel guilty and do what they can to make a positive impact on the lives of others in response.
I've experienced Florida as a child, I do not want anything in that state to escape onto the country, it was disgusting 30 years ago and has only gotten worse
Florida is no longer a state, it's an experience you'll never forget.
If society didn’t want to deal with the consequences of racism and the shame, maybe society should have been more proactive to prevent it from happening in the first place and in the future. The best way for society to redeem themselves is being honest, accept responsibility, change behaviors, and move on.
Why would they call it a black history class when they won't let them talk about black history
Unlike virtually all the big name black baseball players of the 60s and 70s, Hammering Hank stepped out with Dr. King and John Lewis on the front line of civil rights protest.
What's your point?
Did you watch the video? The point is that ALL he will ever be as far as Florida's education policy is concerned is a baseball player. Sorry, but even at a professional level, being part of making history is more important than a game. But you wouldn't know it as far as Florida's treatment of him in education.
@@gtwfan52 LoL Im sure they are banning Hank Williams now right? Yall are nuts!
@@TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter Hank Aaron, dude.
Aaahhh, but Hank Williams as well. Remember how Hank Williams learned to play a guitar. Remember where Hank learned to write songs. From Black blues music. Remember "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". Straight out of Black Blues music. And Kowaliga, the same. These fools still got a lot of banning to do apparently. They won't succeed but they will cause a lot of trouble till they can be voted out and put back under their STUPID rock.
Joy brings stories the rest of the media ignores.
She's a race baiter who despises white people
only 2 kkkarens disagree😂
Reid's a racist dirt bag. Wake up.
Black history is American history. Black labor built much of this country, it's insane to ignore the contributions of the most marginalized community in the US, that never asked to be here in the first place.
By banning historic education you leave open the door for the repetition of past atrocities. Why not say that it's ridiculous to teach our children any math that was created before 1970?!
Black history month should be every month not just February those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it .
We tell our kids that and we're a bunch of white folks in Montana we teach our kids to respect others and not to hate people who are different from us .
Write it in the sky, on the walls, say it out loud, and every day... I spoke a dialect when I was little that I no longer remember and I don't know if anyone still speaks it. History is not for the bullies to control! It may be uncomfortable to live with one's sins, but to try to hide them creates more. Applauded those students for taking a stand!
Even if all a child learns about Miss Rosa is that she refused to be moved in the face of injustice, it may inspire that child to stand up to a bully, demand to be paid what they are worth, or walk away from an abusive relationship. She is an inspiration to us all.
I absolutely understand and appreciate the topic of discussion.
Thanks for sharing!!!
This is absolutely necessary. Without outrage on a massive level, creeping fascism will countinue.
I'm 100% on those students side; they have the bravery to stand up to oppressions! Thank you young people for standing up doing what older people refuse to do! These young people will indeed be voting soon.
I'll repeat myself: Do not become a teacher in the US. It's a thankless, even dangerous job. Go teach abroad if teaching is your passion.
This 🤬 is so OUTRAGEOUS!!! I really can't stand the sight of DeSantis Trump and anyone else like them!!!
its a good thing that they know
i went through all of my primary and much of my university education not knowing that most of what i was being taught about american and even world history, was total crap
This is getting very scary. WTF. How is it even legal to do that?
Black and brown Floridians need to make sure these politicians hear you loud and clear. Vote them out. We’re not going anywhere.
Good Job Students. YOU DON'T NEED TO BE TREATED LIKE BABIES. LEAD THE WORLD!