it is taught in American schools.
did you just learn about the trail of tears?
I’m old af and I grew up in the south with most topics whitewashed but I even learned about this in school and it wasn’t sugar coated.
Yeah, my school explicitly said the confederacy was right, should have won, and slavery wasn’t as bad as people say, and they still covered the trail of tears accurately.
Yeah Im with others on this. We were taught this and all the gory details. Same with slavery. We were not sheltered from the reality of any of it.
Just to give you some clarity, in 9th grade our teacher told us a historical account in which a slaveowner punished his slave by literally shitting in his mouth and sewing it shut.
We were made to understand the brutality of slavery.
So clearly you aren’t an American. If you were American you would know about the Trail of Tears. It’s one of the landmark, pivotal chapters in American history that is actually taught: the people who were living here first were brutally repressed and removed from their own land and moved to parts of the country no one wanted, regardless of where the native people were from. So the folks who grew up around swamps on the Florida peninsula were moved to the dry, dusty wastes of Oklahoma. This is all stuff Americans learn.
So why are you posting this? You’re just a dumb fucking troll. Go fight and be a sunflower like the rest of your ilk.
As what a city man might call a redneck… Even my hodunk school taught this.
This was not taught to me in America in good schools in the 80s and 90s. I think it’s just a meme for older people and boomers.
I went to highschool in Utah in the 90s and it was covered pretty well… No glossing over or anything, tho I don’t remember it being in any text book, I just remembered it from regular lecture time in US history class
I learned about it in school in Texas, with all the deaths. You trippin. Go back to hexbear
Yeah, no. We covered this in elementary school, along with Japanese internment. I grew up in a small town of almost exclusively white people, too.
A town with good schools and recently, no doubt. Congrats.
Be as sarcastic as you like, but I’m grateful for my education. We thoroughly covered these types of topics from elementary through high school. These, and many other topics, gave me a small window into other cultures that left me wanting to learn more. It gave me an open minded curiosity about people who were different from me, even though the area was about as homogeneous as it gets. It made me excited for opportunities to go out in new communities and talk to people from different backgrounds.
I find now that I’m older that this type of genuine curiosity about other people pays off in a number of ways. I’m sorry that you don’t seem to have had a similar experience.
I wasn’t being sarcastic at all. I figured you were young. They cover this stuff in schools now. When I was a kid 150 years ago they did not teach this stuff at all.
We’re just going to downvote you for this ok. It happens.
Tulsa massacre is a better example of something glossed over in school.
When my wife and I saw Watchmen the series, my wife was blown away when I told her that really happened. Whites literally told blacks to go away and form their own town, so they did and prospered, so the whites came and murdered the prosperous black community, and nobody was punished for any of this.
Literally not even mentioned in school back in the 80s.
So many events like this, shout out to Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.
Wikipedia places the death count at three times the number shown in this ‘meme’ at the low end, 4x at the high end. Also what a bizarre bit of phrasing, it’s literally called “The Trail of Tears” calling it evil is really gliding the lily.
Reminds me of a girl I knew posting on FB, “How come they don’t have changing stations in men’s rooms, huh?!”
LOL my god she got roasted. One guy was like, “You know $Brand you see in the bathroom? They in our bathrooms too and the company is headquartered in Tulsa. Where you’re from.”
And yes, The Trail of Tears was covered in OK classrooms, in the 80s.
It’s taught in German schools.
Taught in American schools too.
And I bet it’s because of how important the American genocides were to the concept of Lebensraum.
It took liberals less than half-a-year to get on board with genocide. It’s no surprise to me that they don’t want to be reminded of the ones closer to home, either.
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No, we’re a post racial society you see uwu. And no we won’t give the land back, we didn’t steal it, our racist ancestors did, and we’re not racist.
