Senate "Race" Relations (was "U.S. Society and Black Men")

For Black History Month, DeSantis personally announced an art and essay contest. His Education Commmissioner said "Learning about African American achievements is central to learning about Florida and America itself"



Edit: the state's special "Black History Month" website is a testament to minimum effort.

 

Well, this kind of goes hand in hand with what I brought up in the police brutality thread about what if the officers that HAD been fired had been white. Guess now we know.

Edit: Speaking of teaching Black History Month in Florida... This really REALLY isn't the way to do that.

 

Juliet, just post what the article is about, instead of the constant click-baiting.

 

Teacher allegedly did blackface on her students as some sort of alleged lesson on Black History month.

 

Where?

 

LOL wow. Where do I even start? Oh I know, with actual information about African American history.

The United States Project
Confronting Slavery in America
https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/2022/06/confronting-slavery-in-america.html

The Origins of Slavery in the British Empire
https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-origins-of-slavery-in-british-empire.html

Opposing the African Slave Trade
https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/opposing-african-slave-trade.html

Slave Ships, Slave Rebellions and the Middle Passage
https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/slave-ships-slave-rebellions-and-middle.html

Phillis Wheatley Peters
https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/2022/11/phillis-wheatley-peters.html

 

Florida.

 

Of course. Florida gonna Florida.

 

Just so we’re clear: African American history isn’t just slavery or slavery related topics.

 

@The Jedi in the Pumas no it isn’t, but unfortunately that’s where it starts.

 

I really don't think that meme does a good job. It does what white conservatives often misleadingly accuse "the woke left" of doing, and being unnecessarily polarizing and over-simplifying and villainizing/victimizing.

And African-American history might begin with slavery, but Black History does not.

 

So speaking of Black history, has anyone caught any of this (on PBS--available for streaming right now in addition to the local air dates):



I've seen the first two episodes and have been enjoying them. Really interesting to see the earlier origins of hip hop (with all its varied components--graffiti, breakdancing, rapping, etc.) examined in relation to the preceding context of Black consciousness movements of the 60s and then the specific context of the Bronx/NYC in the 1970s.

Another great recently-made music-related Black history doc is of course Questlove's Summer of Soul film from 2021. I highly recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It weaves together so many elements of larger history in with the concert footage, and Questlove's audio director commentary was as fascinating as the film itself!

 

Personally, I only use the phrase of “people of color” when I’m around liberals who use it. I’m more comfortable saying black and brown when talking about minorities.

It does group everyone who isn’t white into one group while ignoring the tensions between those racial groups in America.

 

Hmm… that definitely feels like a pointless term.

How and why is it preferred?