Originally Posted by
MinnesotaFats
LOL
Used to trade sex for rents in my apartment complex in Arcadia. Had a couple cute black gals in there.
One was helping her daughter with civics / social studies and it was about Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase and his presidency.
Being a political science major I couldn't help but dive into the complicated history of Jefferson's Presidency....trying to get congress to agree to pay for land they'd just rather take, or to get congress to declare war on the pirates for stealing our exports to Europe.
The young daughter asked if the boats that brought the stuff we made just came back empty....that was probably the most uncomfortable anyone in that room will ever have been, yet real teaching moment.
To explain to a 11 year the history there was difficult, however, not even the mother knew there was white slavery, kidnapping, pirating nor the meaning of "the shores of Tripoli", etc or any of that history. That is why we don't tear down statues, rename bases, change fight songs, edit art or alter written historical perspective.
That young daughter has a true basis for understanding the history of slavery, poverty, war and law in Colonial America and what the right to self determination actually means. Today, she's a sophomore straight A student AND LOVES history! She did BLM or a 24 hour news cycle, she wasn't coerced or misguided or brainwashed....she was simply given a 30 minute, real simple, lecture and shown pictures of Jefferson, the fight song, where N Africa is and references to pirates and kidnapping. The daughter doesn't view herself as a victim, even thou she is in a very poor family situation. I still help her w topics now and again because she loves going up against the HS teachers revisionist history point of view.
The mom still looks great, but fukks for help w rent. What a difference understanding history can make in ones life....we learn history in many different ways, not everyone can read it, some must see it, feel it, or experience it.
Leave the statues, parks, bases, towns and flags alone. Once we all see that we all sacrificed to build and settle and cultivate this country without ancestors sacrifice the sooner we'll all be getting along again.