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Why is it that in schools they dont teach black history about black ppl when they were in africa but they only teach about the martin luther king era and slavery?

I literally dont know nothing about blacks in africa and wondered why i dont know anything about it but i learned about white ppl from hundreds of years ago

Also whats a good start to learning about ancient black history
 
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It's because teachers are already either

a) just doing the bare minimum so why even do that extra work in lesson planning, or

b) trying hard but doing so much already trying to get to these kids with the material they have that they can't really fit in the time and work in all that extra lesson planning.

c) being told not to when they try because some parents might find it to be a little too "progressive"
 
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[COLOR=#red]Gov't controls what you learn.

And they damn sure don't want their best slaves to know who they are. With Identity comes culture, with culture comes land.

Jeremiah 17:4 :wink:[/COLOR]
 
Maybe the schools you've been to could be the reason.

Several of my classes at different schools have taught about Ghana, Mali, and Songhai as well as ancient Egypt. 
 
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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret....

The most important things in life are not taught in schools, the most important things in life should be taught by your parents. I told a 40 year old man the other day what a 401k was. It has nothing to do with race, the truth and secrets are in the details.
 
BlackIntellect said:
 
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret....

The most important things in life are not taught in schools, the most important things in life should be taught by your parents. I told a 40 year old man the other day what a 401k was. It has nothing to do with race, the truth and secrets are in the details.
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but i was taught greek and roman history by 9th grade.

i too wish it weren't about race but the truth here is right before our eyes. there's a deliberate exclusion within public education of the world's oldest continent. why is that?
 
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DeMarco said:
 
but i was taught greek and roman history by 9th grade.

i too wish it weren't about race but the truth here is right before our eyes. there's a deliberate exclusion within public education of the world's oldest continent. why is that?
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The truth is it might be the oldest continent, but its history is so diverse and colonized that it becomes difficult to cover in one course, or even one year.
 
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we had an elective African American history class in my high school.

teacher was a white soccer mom.

I learned nothing.
 
BlackIntellect said:
 
The truth is it might be the oldest continent, but its history is so diverse and colonized that it becomes difficult to cover in one course, or even one year.
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do you believe this is a valid enough reason to avoid delving into any of its history at all? there are psychological implications in the neglect of african history, specifically among public schools of minorities struggling with identity. by doing so, they're creating a hierarchy of cultural importance, and ultimately, seeds of inferiority in black children.
 

"A little over a year ago I was in bondage, and now I'm back out here reaping the blessings and getting the benefits that go along with it, everything that's out here for kings like us. The reason why we like this, this jewelry and this diamonds and stuff, they don't understand is, because we really from Africa, and that's where all this stuff come from. And we originated from kings, you know what I'm saying? So don't look down on the youngsters because they wanna have shiny things. It's in our genes, know what I'm saying? We just don't all know our history, so—"

-Pimp C.
 
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That would be African history.
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So what defines American history? Just how the Europeans came to be over here?


Because we learn all about European colonization, we learn all about European history, but we can't learn about how African Americans came to be?


Other than the Transatlantic slave trade?


Word?


Not eem black but that's a pile of ********.


We all learnt about England, Spain, France. Monarchies, the renaissance, magna carta, roman history, the plague, the middle ages/the dark ages, the crusades....Everything about European history. EVERYTHING.

But we can't learn about the roots of where 13% of the American population came from?


Word?
 
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DeMarco said:
 
do you believe this is a valid enough reason to avoid delving into any of its history at all? there are psychological implications in the neglect of african history, specifically among public schools of minorities struggling with identity. by doing so, they're creating a hierarchy of cultural importance, and ultimately, seeds of inferiority in black children.
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I hate to break it to you, but school is there to educate, not promote a pro-black culture or any culture for that matter. I didn't learn in depth about African History until I went to college, just like I didn't learn in depth about psychology or any other specific area that interested me. Truth be told, most general educational teachers aren't qualified to instruct on matters of such depth as African history with - cultural and linguistic barriers. Do you realize how many different languages and cultures exist within specific countries in Africa? I don't mean to defend our public education system which has numerous flaws both obvious, and latent.  

Heck I wouldn't even know what would be taught in African history class. A nigerian would be looking at the teacher like I aint never been to Ethiopia bruh.
 
Patrick Bateman said:
[COLOR=#red]Gov't controls what you learn.

And they damn sure don't want their best slaves to know who they are. With Identity comes culture, with culture comes land.

Jeremiah 17:4 :wink:[/COLOR]
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SneakerHeathen said:

"A little over a year ago I was in bondage, and now I'm back out here reaping the blessings and getting the benefits that go along with it, everything that's out here for kings like us. The reason why we like this, this jewelry and this diamonds and stuff, they don't understand is, because we really from Africa, and that's where all this stuff come from. And we originated from kings, you know what I'm saying? So don't look down on the youngsters because they wanna have shiny things. It's in our genes, know what I'm saying? We just don't all know our history, so—"

-Pimp C.
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:pimp: :pimp:
 
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