Honestly I think, I almost know why we do such things. It's all about fairy tales, to spread the myth of our squeaky clean past to minds that won't question it. I'm sure all of us once learned that the Civil War was fought for slavery, then a few years later we're told... "well that's not really true", or " That's a third grade answer." Why teach us lies only to "Clear it up later". It's because we'll remember the first thing we learned better than the truth. Thomas Jefferson once wrote, (on Blacks)
( he also believed the appropriate punishment for witchcraft was ducking)Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
So much for all men are created equal, Blacks and Whites are so chained by our past. Why don't we learn about the importance of slavery during the American Revolution ? We cannot be one people until we accept that we have the same history, we shouldn't have to take Black History classes, just History...Our real history. A history the Black community should wear with pride, and the rest of us should accept our shame, not Whitewash it.
David Walker's Appeal, September 28 1829I have been for years troubling the pages of historians, to find out what our fathers have done to the white Christians of America, to merit such condign punishment as they have inflicted on them, and do continue to inflict on us their children. But I must aver, that my researches have hitherto been to no effect. I have therefore, come to the immovable conclusion, that they (Americans) have, and do continue to punish us for nothing else, but for enriching them and their country. For I cannot conceive of anything else. Nor will I ever believe otherwise, until the Lord shall convince me.
