Thursday, July 5, 2012

WTF-The Tea Party and Slavery

It appears the Tea Party Groups in Tennessee have decided that the teaching the children about the Founding Fathers and slavey are a little depressing and have decided that they want to teach a "sunnier side".

I would like to know exactly what they are leaving out, so I have a list of items for them to respond to:
     1-we were brought here in bondage (yes we were sold by our own people, but if the white man hadn't made the deal, we would have been in Africa in peace).
     2-we were put on the auction blocks like live animals (and the animals were treated better and sold for a higher price)
     3-our families were split apart
     4-our women were often the victims of the masters' sexual lust, many times against her will she was raped and produce offspring of the master!
     5-our men and women were handpick not to love each other, but to breed strong young slaves (strong men+strong women=strong children was the thinking)
     6-our people were pited against each other early. Master wanted the lighter skinned high yellow sister in his house and in his bed. the darker ones were left in the fields to rot
     7-our brothers were beaten and lynched if they tried to protect themselves, their women, their children (and please don't get me started about them looking at white women)
    8-our young were not allowed an education
    9-Our culture and language, even our names, were taken from us against our will.



This and so much more is a part of our history, our American History. You can not sugar-coat it, you can not give it a "sunnier side". To do so, to water down the history of an entire race of people is to de-humanize them, to make them feel less than who they are. This is not right! This is not acceptable. Tea Party, Republicans, Skinheads, Racists, you all must realize and know that my history is your history and your history is my history. We are all entwined in one way or another, we are all related. 
I can only hope the good people of Tennessee fight back against the Tea Party. That they continue to teach history as it is/was, not as some misguided people want it to be.

To read more of about the Tennessee Tea Party and their movement to change the history books, please go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/tea-party-tennessee-textbooks-slavery_n_1224157.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=3248068,b=facebook

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