Typical racist rhetoric:
The “oh, but you’re not like the rest of them” line.
Never forget
His fucking face in the third pic is like every white boy I’ve ever seen try to explain away his racist/sexist/homophobic comment.
When it’s actually the opposite. English settlers were the savages. Native Americans had running irrigation systems! They had beautiful and intricate cities and homes and communities. They were clean, and respectful of the environment, and even used a form of breath sweeteners! But no. You won’t learn any of that in American history classes. You won’t learn about the complete and utter genocide of a nation of people who originally inhabited this land. Nope.
You do learn about it. It’s very tragic and the American education system acknowledges that.
That’s only some schools, most schools I’ve heard say that they were the savages and the settlers were the “good guys” it angers and frustrates me to see a culture which was peaceful and rich with Knowledge, but are still depicted as savages or monsters.
What kind of school says that? Mine don’t!
Many school books acknowledge it by giving it a paragraph or two, MAYBE a chapter if they’re really “liberal” saying white settlers took the land from the natives in the 1500s or 1600s, likely skimming over the most gruesome details. That’s technically acknowledging it, but that is not nor will ever be enough.
They don’t really talk much about the treaties that the U.S. Government went against and a chapter (or less usually) is not going to do justice the mass loss of different cultures and native American history. Acknowledging it should be the beginning to a rich education on where this country fucked up, but instead it’s two sentences in paragraph 8 in the first chapter of the Generic American History Textbook.
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