Host: Americans ignorant of what happened. Professor: The American Myth busted.

[egbertowillies]

Professor Eddie Glaude used the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s “Black Wall Street” to bust the American myth. His statement is one we must understand.

https://egbertowillies.com/2021/06/02/host-americans-ignorant-of-what-happened-professor-the-american-myth-busted/

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Oh, I Thought They Were Talking About January 6

The title should have ended at "Americans Ignorant"

[Warpy]

2. When history has been scrubbed, the ignorance is not willful

It's deliberate, but not on the part of the uninformed person.

I lived on the east coast. I went to segregated schools in the south. I also joined social justice groups so I knew about Rosewood, Wilmington and Detroit. No one ever mentioned Greenwood, I didn't hear about that one until I moved west. None of them were in textbooks, none appeared in newspapers until after the civil rights movement on the 60s and when an anniversary of the massacre would come up.

Most people don't go beyond those sanitized, whitewashed high school history books, which are designed to produce patriotic and obedient workers. ost people don't read beyond them, they don't have time or their reading skills aren't all that great or they just trust their educators just a little too much.

W can do better, especially if we stop letting Texas pick the history books for the whole country. We need to do better.

[ShazamIam]

3. The real truth is that in addition to hiding and denying the institutionalized racism the ones doing

hiding need to be held accountable for all the lies this, institutionalized racism, spread about people of color, and any immigrant group.

The U.S. institutions, all of them have told and perpetuated the lies that African Americans were naturally violent and lacked intelligence to be full Citizens.

Exposing the violent acts is only part of the truth seeking needed. The lies must be undone, the lies that included extreme institutionalized ideas and shitty methods and data.