Yeah, TheDoltInTheRoom is about as sharp as a potato. Just reading some of his posts will reveal how dense he is.
The Associated Press which is supposedly "journalism" ran a story based on the word of teenagers who can't read at a 3rd grade level and didn't represent the school's side of the story.
Anyone who thinks this is journalism is a moron.
There's a reason I'm continually insulted but never refuted. You cannot defend your positions.
Do they actually read at a 3rd grade level or are you performing bad journalism?
Strong African tribes captured weaket trides to be sold to the slave traders who took them to South America, the Caribbean and the east coast of Amrican to be sold as slaves. The trip from Africa to those places was horrendous the weak ones didnt make it, only the strong survived the ordeal. yes it was just like Jimmy the Greek said it was for the slave owners.
The plantations had house and field slaves obviously the field slaves having it harder. And here is where them blues originated,
Think everyone gets that and can also talk how blacks were treated in the south. Everyone up on what blacks have done in sports and the entainment world, we all get it or should.
We all know about Rosa Parks who has a birthday this month, Martin Luther King, Paul Roberson. The Brown Bomber Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poiter, Marvin Gaye etc.
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What are they scared of? I’m very angry about this but I also have to laugh. Has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard. The right have lost their minds 😂
Don't get too angry and upset. The "most ridiculous thing you've ever heard" may have never happened. If you read the article that you posted, the school Superintendent denied the allegations. Here is a piece from your article: "Tuscaloosa County Superintendent Dr. Keri Johnson, in a statement, denied allegations that an administrator told the students to leave out historical elements. 'It is not true that faculty or staff told students that slavery or the civil rights movement could not be part of the program.'"
After reading the article, I think these are our options:
(1) The students were told by school administration that they could not mention slavery or the Civil rights movement during a program on black history, and the school superintendent and various school administrators are now lying in their denials.
(2) The students named in the article are lying and/or deliberately chose to misunderstand something the school administrators said as being told they can't mention slavery or the Civil Rights movement, and are trying (and succeeding) to create a racial story for the national media.
(3) The students named in the article misunderstood something the school administrators said and then believed, either reasonably or unreasonably, that they were told they can't mention slavery or the Civil rights movement. Nothing the school Superintendent now says seems to quell their outrage.
I'm going with (2), since we all know that slavery and the Civil Rights movement have been taught in every high school in America for the last 50 years (at least), and it seems preposterously unlikely that school administrators told anyone, at any time, or for any reason, that they couldn't mention slavery and the Civil rights movement.
Unfortunately, we know AP News decided on option (1) given that unequivocal headline. They pulled a Fox News stunt where the headline doesn't match the content of the article -- they hope people do what you (the OP and other in this thread) did and just read the headline, get outraged and begin distributing it.
If you actually read the article you would notice that the Tuscaloosa County Superintendent is given ample space to refute the allegation. In fact, if you do a quick word count, 41% of the article is presenting his position. It looks like it is not only teenagers who can't read at a 3rd grade level.
The superintendent doesn't work at the school. She denies the allegations but doesn't know anything about it... because she doesn't work at the school.
You may have read the words in the article but you didn't understand what they said.
How many people in the US currently have owned slaves or have been slaves?
Does this mean I don't have teach any of my curriculum that happened before 1960-1970ish?
Of course it will be hard to teach about redlining, Jim Crow, Lynching, the Republican "War on Drugs (Black people), the southern strategy etc etc with the background of the 1800's..... Or maybe that is the goal that they and you are trying to accomplish
If you actually read the article you would notice that the Tuscaloosa County Superintendent is given ample space to refute the allegation. In fact, if you do a quick word count, 41% of the article is presenting his position. It looks like it is not only teenagers who can't read at a 3rd grade level.
The superintendent doesn't work at the school. She denies the allegations but doesn't know anything about it... because she doesn't work at the school.
You may have read the words in the article but you didn't understand what they said.
The SCHOOL was not represented in the article.
If the leader of the school system doesn't know what is going on in their own district she should be fired yesterday
Slavery was illegal in virtually the entire north before the country was even formed.
The expansion of slavery was opposed from the beginning.
You don't know anything about history.
Slavery went on for centuries you idiot. Who cares if you oppose slavery yet you do nothing about it. Robert E Lee supposedly was against slavery but he owned slaves AND led the confederate army fighting to persevere the institution of slavery. Kiss my a$ with your revisionist history.
Slavery went on for THOUSANDS of years but it took America less than 100 years to get rid of it and you're outraged.
LOL!
Robert E. Lee didn't fight for slavery he fought for Virginia.
The superintendent doesn't work at the school. She denies the allegations but doesn't know anything about it... because she doesn't work at the school.
You may have read the words in the article but you didn't understand what they said.
The SCHOOL was not represented in the article.
....do you know what a superintendent is? lol
Do you?
She clearly stated what supposedly happened wasn't district policy. Whatever happened the decision was made at the SCHOOL.
Strong African tribes captured weaket trides to be sold to the slave traders who took them to South America, the Caribbean and the east coast of Amrican to be sold as slaves. The trip from Africa to those places was horrendous the weak ones didnt make it, only the strong survived the ordeal. yes it was just like Jimmy the Greek said it was for the slave owners.
The plantations had house and field slaves obviously the field slaves having it harder. And here is where them blues originated,
Think everyone gets that and can also talk how blacks were treated in the south. Everyone up on what blacks have done in sports and the entainment world, we all get it or should.
We all know about Rosa Parks who has a birthday this month, Martin Luther King, Paul Roberson. The Brown Bomber Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poiter, Marvin Gaye etc.
You are assuming too much. Do most High Schoolers "know the basics"?. How did you learn the basics? Oh yea....school.
Strong African tribes captured weaket trides to be sold to the slave traders who took them to South America, the Caribbean and the east coast of Amrican to be sold as slaves. The trip from Africa to those places was horrendous the weak ones didnt make it, only the strong survived the ordeal. yes it was just like Jimmy the Greek said it was for the slave owners.
The plantations had house and field slaves obviously the field slaves having it harder. And here is where them blues originated,
Think everyone gets that and can also talk how blacks were treated in the south. Everyone up on what blacks have done in sports and the entainment world, we all get it or should.
We all know about Rosa Parks who has a birthday this month, Martin Luther King, Paul Roberson. The Brown Bomber Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Sidney Poiter, Marvin Gaye etc.
You are assuming too much. Do most High Schoolers "know the basics"?. How did you learn the basics? Oh yea....school.
Alan
My grandparents had books on the topic, that was my intro to the slave ordeal.
She clearly stated what supposedly happened wasn't district policy. Whatever happened the decision was made at the SCHOOL.
"As our company president, I can assure you what the branch manager of our Colorado Springs facility is alleged to have engaged in is against our company policy. Move along, nothing to see here." - bad journalism I guess!