lol, i have a friend who was born and raised in Alabama who recently started growing cotton in his garden. when his dad found out, he flipped out and nearly disowned him on the spot.
lol, i have a friend who was born and raised in Alabama who recently started growing cotton in his garden. when his dad found out, he flipped out and nearly disowned him on the spot.
Those are absolutely retarded questions but nothing to freak out over.
Slaves DID exist, deal with it.
Slaves DID exist, deal with it.
sunzt
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If a nazi concentration camp has room only for 1,230 Jews and 200 Jews arrive daily. What is the minimum number of Jews that need to be gassed per day if it takes 10 hours to dispose of the bodies?
Nothing to freak out over.
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If a grade level in the school was currently involved in studying the Holocaust would that make it at least understandable as to how it happened however ill advised it may seem in hindsight? That is what happened in this grade school, it was not some cabal of racists trying to belittle slavery or blacks, it was a poor attempt at trying to reinforce learning that was taking place in history by the math department. This is a Title One school where the teachers and staff are under an incredible amount of pressure to try and improve student learning and test scores. Relating math problems to other activities currently being studied is a very common way schools approach this today and this was likely a poorly thought out attempt at that.
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Obviously a terrible idea, but this is ridiculously overblown. Slaves existed in this country. Slaves still exist in this world. Maybe they were learning about slavery in their other subjects and the teacher wanted to make things relate. Really not a big deal.
JulesMaximus
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If the cowboy baron kills 10 chinamen a day, and the railroad pays him $1.00 per chinaman how many chinamen does he have to kill to earn $50?
Nothing to freak out over.
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rcpratt
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JulesMaximus
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Right, because he used derogatory slang terms in his example.
Oh, it's okay because he didn't use the N word?
Referring to black people as slaves is okay as long as you don't say the N word.
JulesMaximus
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I think it is common knowledge that the predominant race of slaves in this country were black. I love how people like to forget history and trivialize shit like this.
How about Indians? I'm sure we could make up some distasteful questions based on some of the horrible things we did to American Indians in this country too.
edro
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Why would the topic of slavery be offensive to modern day black people?
My ancestors died by the millions from potato famine, but I don't freak out if someone mentions potatoes or even makes a joke about potato famine.
People get offended too easily just to get attention.
I also don't get why a field trip to a cotton plantation for black kids is racist or offensive.
It's agricultural education. Yes, your ancestors picked cotton as slaves. So what?
You didn't. Your parents didn't. Your great grandparents didn't.
My ancestors died by the millions from potato famine, but I don't freak out if someone mentions potatoes or even makes a joke about potato famine.
People get offended too easily just to get attention.
I also don't get why a field trip to a cotton plantation for black kids is racist or offensive.
It's agricultural education. Yes, your ancestors picked cotton as slaves. So what?
You didn't. Your parents didn't. Your great grandparents didn't.
If three men can flatten a tepee in ten minutes, how long will it take forty-five men to flatten ninety tepees?
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If it takes 10 people 300 hours to be led to a new reservation non-stop by walking. How long will it take 5,000 people to walk to that reservation non-stop?
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OutHouse
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bwhwhhahaha
jesus christ i have tears running down my face from laughing so hard. that guy is awesome.
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thats funny. as a kid we drove through NW texas from colorado to visit family in east texas. if it was early fall the road would be covered with cotton getting blown out of the cotton harvesting trailers and cotton bails along the highway. i would pick up the loose cotton and bring it home pick the seeds out of the cotton and try to grow it. i managed to get a few plants out of it. kinda fun as a kid especially in colorado were my friends had never seen a cotton plant or cotton pod before.
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JulesMaximus
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That's because it wasn't something that someone else did to you that was demeaning/cruel/unjust. It just happened. Slavery didn't just happen, it was over a hundred years of uprooting an entire race of people from their homeland and treating them like property with no regard whatsoever for their lives or rights as human beings.
Racial tensions were a huge issue in this country until only a few decades ago and continue to be an issue particularly in the poorest areas. You'd have to be a complete idiot not to see this and know why it's wrong.
edro
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I understand the conflict and understand why people would get offended, but I don't agree with it.
Being offended by a topic that ended hundreds of years ago is perpetuating the divide. It's only an issue because people make it an issue.
Slavery is probably the most vile act in human history, but talking about it shouldn't offend you.
People need to toughen up. Maybe that's easy for me to say since my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather wasn't a slave. (Or maybe he was and I just don't know or care)
JulesMaximus
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Right, sweep it under the rug. At the very least it is offensive to trivialize it.
And the topic didn't end hundreds of years ago. Slavery was abolished over 100 years ago but racism was rampant in this country until the 1970s and 80s (well within my lifetime) at the very least and still is in the minds of some. Hell, we've had race riots in this country as recently as 1994.
And talking about it doesn't offend me.
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Miramonti
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Yep, wasn't what it sounded like, which was that of a southern confederate separatist ancestor of a sharecropper getting political after a rousing speech the previous night at his white supremest meeting.
He was simply trying to incorporate what they had been studying, which is often a very useful teaching aid. Also was a member of the Black History committee.
have you ever heard of "disparate treatment?" Let me give you the one sentence breakdown: shit can be implicitly racist.
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