I hate that shi*,when we were kids we all looked at each other as equal, but then when we all learned about history on slavery we changed. Do anybody else feel the same way?
2006-09-03 09:31:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
If we just left the past in the past,maybe the world could be a little better!
2006-09-03 09:33:28 · update #1
Yes I did....I have a good story. We were like in high school and this teacher was talking about slavery. She went into all the bad parts and how they were treated and sold. The whole 9 yards. She used me as a example of how it would feel to be up in front of alot of people being sold. I'm a quit shy person and here I stand in front of a class on a box while she talks..lol
I could have freaked out.Then in the 2nd grade our book had a picture of someone hanging from a tree......No joke. My dad had to go up to the school. I was having nightmares so bad I couldn't sleep or when I got up at night to go to the bathroom I was scared to turn on the lights I would see someone hanging.
I guess it was odd to me because as a child I wasn't brought up to notice skin. My great grandmother was black and I have a mixture of family. Then going to school and seeing something like that in the 2nd grade bout gave me a nervous break down.It always scared me hearing about it.
2006-09-03 12:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps. I grew up in a town where there have been blacks and whites attending public school together since the 1950s. I am caucasian, and I never thought of the 'black' kids as anybody other than Paul, Lovest, Curtis, Cyrus, Debbie, and so on. We- the "white" kids, all sort of reacted like - um HUH? White people did that to black people like Paul, Lovest, Curtis Cyrus and Debbie? It was embarassing.
Now I don't know about Paul, Lovest, Curtis, Cyrus & Debbie and I never asked them either. But I bet it was more of a shock to them than it was to me and other kids to learn about slavery. I personally never started to think that I was better than Bill, or the twins, or Willie, or any of the black kids I grew up with. I sure hope they didn't feel inferior either.
Slavery left a legacy that is still being felt across the US. I note that the KKK, a hate group founded by a Southern General who was a slave trader before the war, had a "rally" at Gettysburg, the very SPOT where Freedom became not an idea for African Americans, but a coming reality. It would seem some people will never give up their limited and hateful points of view.
Let them rot in their stupidity. Those of us who know better will work to build a better world.
2006-09-03 16:40:48 · answer #2 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we just left the past in the past, we wouldn't learn from our mistakes.
2006-09-03 16:34:26 · answer #3 · answered by rabecky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slavery was cruel yes but that was in the past let it go.
2006-09-03 16:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by Ruth F 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was wicked confused when they taught slavery...it took a while for me to get it.
2006-09-03 16:33:45 · answer #5 · answered by llljillianlll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well people need education, people need to know about American history...
2006-09-03 16:42:38 · answer #6 · answered by Jubei 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋