Texas History - Revised and Updated

[Joanne98]

Run time: 02:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGpr2CFGAzM   Posted on YouTube: May 31, 2010 By YouTube Member: StarkReality13 Views on YouTube: 4   Posted on DU: June 01, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1231

 
May 31, 2010 — This is a work of satire. Unfortunately, someone will probably take it seriously and it'll win some "Yay, Jesus!" Award from the Texas Republican Party.

[activa8tr]

1. Yeah, that's some history!

[AlbertCat]

2. Hey... they left out the part about the Native Americans....

About how they didn't exist....

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. What do you mean?

White people are the Native Americans. :sarcasm:

[smoogatz]

3. Brilliant.

K&R

[kag]

4. I grew up in Texas.

I attended public school in the mid to late seventies. Unfortunately, much of this "satire" is pretty close to what I learned as "history". I very clearly remember my seventh grade Texas History teacher explaining--to a class of about half black and half white students--that the slaves were actually content as slaves because they didn't have to worry about such responsibilities as voting and supporting a family.

[davidhilton]

7. So what happened when you got to college - did you fail all your history classes? lol

[AlbertCat]

9. --that the slaves were actually content as slaves because they didn't have to worry about such respo

--that the slaves were actually content as slaves because they didn't have to worry about such responsibilities as voting and supporting a family.


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That is actually a line you get(got) not from just TX!

We were taught (in NC) that runaway slaves were rare and always the abused from the "worst" plantations. WRONG.
Most "slave history" was collected by either abolitionists or from memories of former slave. Both these sources are inaccuate....abolitionists having a cause and memory being not too accurate. Anyway, I costumed a play back in '97 based on new and ongoing research using court documents about slaves, which among other things, shows ALL types of slave ran away, from rice pickers to lady's maids. And ALL THE TIME too. It's the SLAVERY, stupid! not the conditions.


Here's a page about the whole project (not just the play I costumed)Very interesting.

Race and Slavery Petitions Project
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/annotation/june-98/southern-petitions.html

[kenfrequed]

5. The frightening part...

Is that some people might actually take this seriously.

[davidhilton]

6. That's is exactly what they taught me at the ol' skoool in Textus!