Aaron has a post labeled “Teaching White Supremacy: Part 1” that brings up what one Donald Yacavone has done in furthering the splintering of America’s motto of “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one) by inflaming race relations:
“Yacavone lays out the arc of America’s white supremacy from the country’s inception and Revolutionary War years to its nineteenth-century flashpoint of civil war to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.”
Go read it and then read this comment from Bill589‘s description that it doesn’t have to be this way because it WASN’T always this way. It took our educational system, infested with SJWs and race-baiters, in turning the movement to be racial colorblind to strictly seeing Society through the dark lens of the Left’s racism:
In my rural neighborhood in the 60s/70s my friends and I knew we were all different and sometimes even joked about the differences: To the by far tallest one of us I’d say in a false soft ‘screaming’ voice things like, “Mark. Can you here me up there?” And he’d bop me on the head. Or I’d ask the poka-dotted one of us(freckles), “If you caught the measles, how would you know?” And the darker skinned one of us gave and took as much as the rest of us. All of us knowing, obviously, that these differences were meaningless, and we were tight and true friends.
It wasn’t until 4th grade at school that I learned a best friend was truly different. And we were told that my friend was ‘black’ and I was ‘white’.
I remember while walking the couple miles home I told my friend that I am not white. I am tan. A little darker here and there especially in the summer.
My friend told me that he was brown and gold. He lifted up his shirt and pushed out his stomach. He bent backwards so much he dropped one of his school books…. And his stomach was a beautiful gold.
Our parents raised us right. It took our public school to teach us that race is important = racism.
While the intentions MAY have been good (yes, I highly doubt it), race-grievance has been flourish for decades and rankes #2 in my eyes in splitting Americans apart (with Progressive gender identity politics shoving it aside to now be #1). It didn’t used to be this way as I agree with Bill589. Our education has gone from “we’re all one” to enhancing the perpetual struggle and war between each tiny subset of the Democrat identity politics groupings. It isn’t part of the solution – it is a good part of the problem.
Thanks to Bill589 for pointing it out.
