Originally posted by: Sea Moose
Best video ever. Morgan speaks the absolute truth.
Tho, there is no Redneck Australian History Month!
I thought that was every month of the bleedin year!
My grandkids are "bi-racial"...yet they know nothing about the contributions of Black Americans to the history of this country. Now that they live with me, it's fallen to me to teach them...so, this year, I took my oldest grandson (age 9) to the library of the community college I was attending for some very eye-opening programs, let him look at some books about the famous Black Americans who have helped build America instead of trying to tear it down, and at the end of the day, I believe he came away with a whole new understanding of what Black people can and do accomplish in America, instead of the fucking ghetto rats like his dad and family.
One other great concept similar to what Morgan Freeman bespoke, deals with the "American Indian.
We in America would go fucking ballistic if there was a "Bureau of African-American Affairs, " or a "Bureau of Jewish Affairs," yet we STILL have a Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Russell Means has lectured on this for many, many years. WHY should the US government be in charge of property rights for those on the reservations? Why should there be reservations at all? Why are the original treaties not being honored?
I have (or had) quite a few family members on a couple of the Sioux reservations in South Dakota. NOT one of America's greatest accomplishments...the near complete extermination of a people...and corralling the few who remained onto almost worthless land...until gold and uranium was found on that land....so they were corralled onto even MORE worthless land?