Homework 2.1

So let me copy and paste a quote I found interesting, “It is not really anegre revolution” that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity. If, for example, one managed to
change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history. And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, you must lie about it all. If you have to lie about my real role here, if you have to pretend that I hoed all that cotton just because I loved you, then you have done something to yourself. You are mad” So basically what I’ve gathered from this one quote is the idea of how schools teach history and such. The basic thing that’s done is that schools would have a specific perspective when teaching kids. Like for example have your preschool or middle school teachers ever tell you that Christphor Columbus was a hero. Most people aren’t aware, but Christphor Columbus was not a hero based on the actions he performed. Why would the United States do this? Beats me. But I could give an educated guess to why they might do this. So, from the last history lesson of my 12th-grade experience, I’ve learned that America has done a lot of things they aren’t proud of. However, they have some sort of God complex or some sort of higher complex than normal countries. They are pushed to being the greatest country in the world so it would be possible that they would benefit from this idea being a reality so it would make sense to make sure to make certain stories be told differently. With this they also have done some twisted stuff like making statues of these murderers to spread fear to other countries and cultures. They are basically saying “Stay away from the ‘land of the free’ and you won’t lose almost everything for the sake of your own culture”. The school systems are changed so that the truth won’t get out. However, that changes once people further their education. Different people teach different things so obviously the only way you wouldn’t know about this would be that you are a sheep to the government which don’t be offended 50% of Americans are.