There’s two main things I learned about the 1921 Tulsa massacre when I was in school:
It happened.
It was racially motivated.
The blacks were way more successful than the whites, and whites don’t handle “others” being more successful. So, instead of working hard & picking themselves up by their bootstraps, they killed all the people that were more successful than them.
So all I’m hearing is “this Republican’s family was involved in a massacre 100 years ago & they want to downplay it.”
I didn’t learn about it until my political sociology course in college.
On a side note, A Different Mirror: A History of Multiculturalism in America by Ronald Takaki is a really good book to read for more of these lesser known historical events that should really be known by everyone.
I have a hard time chalking stuff like that up to pure propaganda or purposeful exclusion. I went to very conservative schools in very conservative states, and I still learned about a lot of “controversial” topics that come up in these conversations.
I think a lot of it is people forgetting something they were taught in school. I’ve absolutely forgotten a hell of a lot.
There’s two main things I learned about the 1921 Tulsa massacre when I was in school:
The blacks were way more successful than the whites, and whites don’t handle “others” being more successful. So, instead of working hard & picking themselves up by their bootstraps, they killed all the people that were more successful than them.
So all I’m hearing is “this Republican’s family was involved in a massacre 100 years ago & they want to downplay it.”
That’s more than what I learned about it in school, because it never came up at all.
Yeah I’d love to hear about who learned about it in school and where.
I didn’t learn about it until my political sociology course in college.
On a side note, A Different Mirror: A History of Multiculturalism in America by Ronald Takaki is a really good book to read for more of these lesser known historical events that should really be known by everyone.
I have a hard time chalking stuff like that up to
I have a hard time chalking stuff like that up to pure propaganda or purposeful exclusion. I went to very conservative schools in very conservative states, and I still learned about a lot of “controversial” topics that come up in these conversations.
I think a lot of it is people forgetting something they were taught in school. I’ve absolutely forgotten a hell of a lot.
I’m guessing you either went to decent schools or took ap classes where they had to teach it.
The normal history classes I took brushed past huge swathes of history, while the ap classes actually covered them quite well.