Children's Book Author Kneels Beside Kaepernick Cutout While Reading Book on 'Whiteness'

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

This is starting to come across as white shaming and not fair to push it on younger kids.

 

http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/09/25/author-kneels-next-colin-kaepernick-cutout-while-reading-book-whiteness?nmsrc=email&pos=1&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=scoop&utm_medium=email

[TBoneTX 45,547]

They don't know when to stop... or when not to begin.

Edited September 26, 2018 by TBoneTX

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

I think the whiney petulant CK is a perfect person to use to sell children's books, match made in heaven.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

On 9/25/2018 at 10:41 AM, Mr&Mrs G. said:

This is starting to come across as white shaming and not fair to push it on younger kids.

 

http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/09/25/author-kneels-next-colin-kaepernick-cutout-while-reading-book-whiteness?nmsrc=email&pos=1&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=scoop&utm_medium=email

 

   It's always debatable how and when the right time is to teach children something, but I do think it would be very difficult to present worse information to kids than the current "happy friendly" version of American history provided by the school curriculum. 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Watched a cartoon on TV in the airport the other day, reminiscent of those “Schoolhouse Rocks” we watched as kids.  It was all about how wrong people were that Christopher Columbus discovered America, and painted him in a negative light.  

At the kid level, that’s EXACTLY how you change history.  Add a jangle to it, and it sticks for life.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, Satisfied said:

Watched a cartoon on TV in the airport the other day, reminiscent of those “Schoolhouse Rocks” we watched as kids.  It was all about how wrong people were that Christopher Columbus discovered America, and painted him in a negative light.  

At the kid level, that’s EXACTLY how you change history.  Add a jangle to it, and it sticks for life.

 

   In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue .... and brutally killed almost everyone he met. There's a more realistic poem than the one we got. Forgive my rhyme structure, I guess that was free verse.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue .... and brutally killed almost everyone he met. There's a more realistic poem than the one we got. Forgive my rhyme structure, I guess that was free verse.

Except that wasn't taught 40 years ago.  What makes your version more accurate?  

[Steeleballz 7,550]

11 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

Except that wasn't taught 40 years ago.  What makes your version more accurate?  

 

   You didn't get the 1492 poem in school?

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

33 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   You didn't get the 1492 poem in school?

I think they meant the 2nd half

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

5 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue .... and brutally killed almost everyone he met. There's a more realistic poem than the one we got. Forgive my rhyme structure, I guess that was free verse.

Yup that is what happens when you dont control your borders.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

18 minutes ago, Randyandyuni said:

I think they meant the 2nd half

 

   The second half is what actually happened. What we learned in school didn't really touch on that.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

I was answering your question not debating the accuracy of your statement, I wasn't there

Edited September 27, 2018 by Randyandyuni

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

49 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   The second half is what actually happened. What we learned in school didn't really touch on that.

I’ll ask again with different words in the hope that you can answer the original question...

 

What makes you so sure the tale being told today is more accurate than what we were taught in school?

[Steeleballz 7,550]

55 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

I’ll ask again with different words in the hope that you can answer the original question...

 

What makes you so sure the tale being told today is more accurate than what we were taught in school?

 

   Well historians do actually know what happened. There are first hand accounts and detailed source material still in existence. It's not disputed. The decision was made to remove some of the more negative material from school history texts. Much of primary school American history has been cleaned up this way. There's a much different version if you take college level history courses. It's the version that actually happened, and that's the version everyone should be learning.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

11 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Well historians do actually know what happened. There are first hand accounts and detailed source material still in existence. It's not disputed. The decision was made to remove some of the more negative material from school history texts. Much of primary school American history has been cleaned up this way. There's a much different version if you take college level history courses. It's the version that actually happened, and that's the version everyone should be learning.

So 30 years ago, Columbus was a nice guy.  But in the past 30 yeas, he became a bad guy.  Wonder what changed in the past 30 years?  Why would historians 30-60 years ago tell such a different story from the historians of today?  The happenings haven’t changed, only the story tellers...