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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 06:16 PM Original message |
Minorities seek history class changes |
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agentkgb (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Americanization |
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Kickoutthejams23 (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. Don't forget King George freed the slaves. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 06:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Jefferson and Hamilton destroyed Aaron Burr partly over his abolitionism |
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Akim (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 07:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Hamilton challenged him to a duel. Burr would have been a coward to refuse |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 08:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Actually, Burr challenged Hamilton: |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. I was wondering about this... |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 11:39 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. England was the reason there was slavery in the US in the first place |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 11:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Sure... |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 11:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. yep, and Brazil and Cuba afterwards |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 08:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. No. Portuguese and Spanish slave trade to the Americas predates ... |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is kind of a non-issue |
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Freedom_from_Chains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 09:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. A lot of it is proportional to how much history you want to learn. |
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agentkgb (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 06:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. It Is Kind of an Issue |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. I always heard that people from Asia crossed the Bering land bridge... |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-20-06 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. I call it the "Cabbage Patch" view of history. How did Asians get to CA |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 04:37 AM Response to Original message |
9. How do predominantly white southern schools teach about the Civil War? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 07:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 08:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That's why we're still fighting the Civil War. |
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Kickoutthejams23 (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 10:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Most southern public schools are integrated |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 11:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I haven't got a problem with that. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 03:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. But that isn't what is taught... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
19. When settlers were settling in Jamestown, ... |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. It's been traditionally Anglo-centric and by extension East Coast-centric |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-21-06 07:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. "so much has been lost, so much we don't know" |
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