your thoughts, please....??

16 replies · 3621 views · Started by P o e t i q R e i g n · Apr 2005

Greensboro, NC

P o e t i q R e i g n Greensboro, NC

I had a conversation with one of my homegirls some weeks ago... she brought up how the history club i'm apart of shouldn't focus on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom and liberation of Black people from society and this country.... that a "HISTORY" club should reflect just that....HISTORY...EVERYbody's history - not just Black people's history (she's Black, herself...attends a PWI).... I explained to her that just like with many courses at an HBCU, we receive a lot of knowledge and a certain type of intellectual exchange we wouldn't receive at a PWI....nor have we received at any other White school prior to coming to college.... that at many of those schools, they mask "history" classes with much of their history...and half-truths or distorted story-telling of everyone else's..... so why NOT our "history" club tell what all you wouldn't get in being apart of "White America"? okay...well....she was saying that the formal education and history we learn in America will naturally be reflected by whoever is the majority of that time. I challenged this theory, asking if she feels that once Hispanics are STATISTICALLY the majority, will they in fact be the ones running and controlling things to the degree that Whites have always ran and control things in this country and even the majority of this world?? She laughed and said "no"...but that really does raise an interesting question. Would they? And it's not about what THEY want to do or are capable of doing...the question is about what they would at that point be ALLOWED to do...by certain people of this world. So what do you all think?

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P o e t i q R e i g n from Greensboro, NC · Apr 2005

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demmeri wrote:
P o e t i q R e i g n wrote:
demmeri wrote:
^^please...i was getting sick of balck folk by then...so how long do you suggest that we concetrate on blacks in history? :???: (nessa)
TWO WEEKS?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! OKAY, SO BEING THAT YOUR SCHOOL WAS 88% WHITE, I AM GUESSING THAT THE CURRICULUM FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR DID NOT CONSIST OF TEACHING ANYTHING BESIDES THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE?!?!?!?! that is absolutely ridiculous....TWO WEEKS?!?! are you SERIOUS!? and tragically...that is exactly what i'm talking about....number one, for you as a Black person to be content with two weeks of learning about our history... and number two, those two weeks being pretty much the average time alotted for us to be taught about our history in this system.... both speak volumes.... wow.....amazing.....truly amazing.....

2 weeksSOLELY on balck pople....the rest of the time, we talked about blacks as they came along in history...fredrick douglas came up during the civil war, colin powell came up during the gulf war...i mean what we need a month on blacks? other wise it's be a black history class....lemme remind you we ain't spend no 2 weeks on no mexicans, jews ect ect...i think that's sufficient...i think every history class should be like that...and it was even generous to us because it spent like 2 weeks soley on us...and mentioned some stuff that you won't get from a regualr history class...i think our contirbutions to this nations history and world history is worth about 2 weeks solely on us...otherwise, a black history class would do...

. . . lol demmeri, i swear.....you and I would be fightin' in real life....'cause your head is just really on some other stuff... the mere fact that you regard light-complexioned females so much higher than dark-complexioned ones demonstrates that it is because of people like you that **** mentality perpetuates harder and stronger now than ever....and for no telling how long... so okay, you keep believing all of what you just said....I'll pray for you in the meantime....