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African-American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids
So, in order to experience diversity, students from South Dakota have to go to Iowa.
Posted by Question Diversity at 8:14 PM on March 28
The field trip is okay if there is another field trip focused on the whites and non-blacks who helped shape this country. ‘Equality’, right?
Posted by at 8:42 PM on March 28
It’s interesting how the article starts out with “If the McKinley kids seem especially knowledgeable about history…” Notice how it implies that they are now “knowledgeable about history” instead of simply knowledgeable about one interpretation or one “color” of history. If it had said ” McKinley kids seem especially knowledgeable about African-American history” then it would sound like they were propagandized, which is exactly what they were, so of course the article couldn’t say that. Also notice how it says nothing about how the kids learned about how Africans sold each other into slavery, because they learned no such thing. This is simply about focusing on the sins of one group of people (whites) while ignoring the sins of everybody else. Like I said, propaganda.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 8:44 PM on March 28
“…for a 30-year elementary teaching veteran like [Kris] Flewelling, the trip proved to be a real eye-opener. ‘I was actually a student at Iowa State University and had no idea the role George Washington Carver played in ISU’s history!’”
Can’t you just picture this featherhead whooping it up at a Barry Obama rally?
50+ year-old women such as her are the ones who do a major job polluting the minds of impressionable children. They majored in nothing but ElEd at a state diploma mill and then pass on all the global warming, African history, and women’s lib garbage.
As a high school teacher I had to spend far too much time unravelling the webs of falsehood these Baby Boomer teachers wove. And I’ll bet it isn’t going to get any better with today’s poorly prepared, semi-literate “professionals”.
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 8:56 PM on March 28
Dear Lord! The takeover of our youth is just about complete. Lies are fed to them daily in our schools and the media. Will there ever be an awakening of White Americans before it is too late? There is a war going on and Whites are the only race that doesn’t know about it. Come to think about it, most Whites wouldn’t lift a finger to protect themselves or their children to begin with. That is how pathetic they have become. They are “mommies” to the nonwhite hordes.
Posted by at 9:21 PM on March 28
I wonder how much of that George Washington Carver stuff is actually true. Amren had a piece once which debunked the stories about him as largely myth.
Posted by Reader-1 at 9:39 PM on March 28
All of this diversity is just giving me goose bumps.
I can’t wait to visit the Irish-American, Italian-American, Chinese-American, Polish-American, German-American and all the other hyphenated-American museums around the country
Posted by Lucas M at 9:58 PM on March 28
When are they going to take them to Reverend Wright’s black church and let them listen to how much he despises whites and hates the US?
Actually, according to most blacks, that kind of rhetoric isn’t unusual in black churches so I guess almost any black church will do.
Also, did the museum get a chance to give the kids some false history and show them the list of black invention myths?
Posted by at 10:42 PM on March 28
““Plus, I was actually a student at Iowa State University and had no idea the role George Washington Carver played…”
A link to a scholarly paper about George Washington Carver can be found here:
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
Posted by at 11:08 PM on March 28
you poor white children being escorted into white race extermination camps. having your white racial-cultural-heritage-history removed from your psyche. being forcefed multi-culti-diversity poison. you will grow up thinking your dead white race cannot survive without the inclusion of other non-white races and most importantly of all you will learn that your savior race will be the wonderkin black race. when your generation rises to full adulthood you will find that your white race has disappeared and you as a former member of the white race will become invisible (color-blind)
Posted by mrJAXX at 12:28 AM on March 29
“It showed students the tranquility of Africa” (from original article)
That museum needs a fact checker.
Posted by H. Dumpty at 1:19 AM on March 29
I can’t wait to visit the Irish-American, Italian-American, Chinese-American, Polish-American, German-American and all the other hyphenated-American museums around the country
In fairness, they actually have an Irish-American museum in my area.
Posted by at 2:57 AM on March 29
I wonder if these kids learned how much black on white crime there is in this country while studying black {thug{history month.
Posted by at 3:01 AM on March 29
Our government, schools and other institutions teach our young white children to hate our founding fathers, their culture, the color of their white skin, their religion and how superior blacks are to whites.
The communist said in 1921,we will bring the blacks up in sports, business and all other areas so the white women will marry with them and this will bring America to our cause”.
Posted by at 3:13 AM on March 29
Amren had a piece once which debunked the stories about him as largely myth.
It’s here:
http://www.amren.com/ar/1994/04/#cover
Posted by qwerty at 4:40 AM on March 29
Every museum, every exhibit, every book is about how Whitey did bad things a long time ago and why that should excuse all the illegitimate births, the crime against Whitey, the refusal to put in some effort and join the mainstream.
Posted by at 7:41 AM on March 29
More examples of stereotypical generalizations that do not bear out accurately. While it is undoubtedly true that some slaves only age one meal per day or that they worked long hours during ‘season’ — it is equally true that many did not have it so bad. Sundays was generally a non-work day, Saturdays were often half days, and often during the non-harvest period there were periods of extended free time. Moreover, in VA and other eastern southern states huge numbers of slaves were actually ‘free’ to earn jobs as skilled laborers in towns such as Petersburg or Richmond and were basically non-supervised. This is NEVER mentioned. Nat Turner had every weekend ‘off’ to meet with all the other conspirators in the woods where they cooked plentiful meals while discussing their murderous plans. Frederick Douglass wrote how he literally bribed other white boys his age to teach him to read — who were quite literally worse off than he — by sharing loaves of bread which he always was able to get from a relative working in the master’s kitchen. He also got extended ‘sabaticals’ to work in the city where he was unsupervised. It was only when his condition ‘worsened’ and he had to return to the agricultural like of a laborer that he ‘rebelled’ and sought his freedom. The authors of “Time on the Cross” shared the diet and work hours of chattel slaves with the ‘wage slaves’ of the north and found them comparable and often that the wage slave had it worse. The authors point out the fact that only in the United States were slaves able to reproduce on their own without much importation of new stock. In virtually every other island and nation in the Caribbean and Latin America the loss of slave life was horrendous. Certainly the Molly Maquires or the western miners - who worked 364 days per year even up to the early 1900s - had it much worse. But this is never brought up to these little ‘darlings’ who seemingly think only that whites were racists and that only blacks had it tough in the last century. While I’m no apologist for slavery and lost ancestors at Gettysburg to destory that institution, neither will I allow this propaganda to go ‘unanswered’. The teacher is doing a grave injustice and our kids are literally being brainwashed!
Posted by Publius at 9:26 AM on March 29
It’s the same as when they say whites came to America and enslaved, massacred the Native Americans… as if the Indians were all sitting around smoking peace pipes with each other.
In reality, most of the tribes loved to fight and they had wars all the time. They stole from each other, they captured Indians from other tribes and enslaved them or tortured them to death. Yet people still insist they were like innocent children cultivating corn when we arrived and decimated them.
Posted by at 10:07 AM on March 29
Just another reason, as if we needed one, to homeschool.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:13 PM on March 29
WHERE in the USA is my museum? My people need a museum too!
My Scot-Irish ancestors came to this wilderness and won it from the Indians, then helped drive out the British authorities, then pushed back the frontier to realize our Manifest Destiny. Their graves dot the landscape from Fairfax County, Virginia to Mexico and they have served this country in every major war (foreign and domestic) since before the Revolution. No, they were not brought here as slaves….they WANTED to be here….or more accurately….they wanted to be gone from where they were originally. (Ha Ha.) Yes, they owned slaves. Bought them good and proper at the slave market, with a receipt, under the laws in place at the time. They also owned land provided them by the Federal government as land grants to Revolutionary War veterans. They also killed animals and ate their flesh, which they continue to do. They also made whiskey…some of which they drank and the rest they sold or shared with visitors and friends.
As part of the first generation of my people to graduate college, I can tell you that my people are vigorous and aggressive. They work hard and they play hard. They take women from other tribes. (My mother was Scotish Presbyterian. My dad was English Baptist. Both sides of the family thought they married outside their race. Ha Ha.) Foxworthy says you might be a redneck if your mother does not even take the Malboro from her lips as she tells the state trooper to go to hell. (I have actually seen it happen.) So I guess I am a redneck after all.
Redneck Museum….sounds like a winner. Maybe we can get Larry the Cableguy to greet people at the door. (And yes, it is quite acceptable to speak English with a Southern accent.)
Posted by Memphomaniac at 1:33 PM on March 29
“In fairness, they actually have an Irish-American museum in my area.”
True, but you probably won’t find many field trips attending for the purpose of extorting diversity and you won’t find an Irish history month. (ST. Patty’s day doesn’t count).
Posted by Lucas M at 1:43 PM on March 29
As part of social studies will these kids learn about the racist dictator Mugabe in Zimbabwe who instituted a policy of ethnic cleansing against whites and simultaneously destroyed the economy and agriculture.
And will they learn about the genocide in Rwanda, or the Sudan, or the deep poverty throughout much of Africa.
If they can find a way to blame whites, they will teach it, otherwise, no.
Posted by at 3:45 PM on March 29
Let me get this straight. No shoes ‘til age 12? Washington at the Battle of Trenton, combat soldiers leaving bloody foot prints in the snow because they were shoeless. Battle of Gettysburg, Southern units head there for supposedly available stocks of shoes. Many Rebs are shoeless. Children’s growing feet will be shod whenever a newly fitting shoe is required?
Let’s try and recall some history. America mainly rural ‘til after WW2. On our farm, the operator’s youngest children walked around and played shoeless during the summer months. That was in the late 50’s!! If people will examine American painting by the likes of Norman Rockwell, they may be surprised by images rendered for covers of the Saturday Evening Post. All-American Boy is a good example. The painting, Steamboat Race on the Connecticut River, is another faithful rendering of American life, for wich Rockwell is so famous. Deck hand or steersman,depicted barefoot.
My Dad taught from the late 40’s to the early 80’s. We lived in
the Chicago metro area. During the mid 60’s one of his
colleagues, impoverished by medical costs for his mother, could not afford shoes for his son. He concealed this fact by having the youth wear soleless vamps. In desperation, he sought
from the Hammond welfare office, money to purchase a single pair of shoes for the boy. It was his misfortune to have his request evaluated by a negress. He showed the case worker his son’s bare sole. She dismissed the need and sent him away. My Dad bought his friend shoes for the son.
Africans, enslaved by their own race, for sale outside the continent of Africa, left behind a tradition of magnificent
footwear, only to be rendered shoeless upon reaching another
continent. I guess that earns a, “Cry me a river”, epigram.
Posted by Walt at 1:07 AM on March 30
I am dismayed by how few parents even notice what is being taught to their children - perhaps they think that only inner city schools are indoctrinating. It is a mistake as even in the most monochromatic suburbs and private schools, the children are pounded year after year with lessons on slavery. Between 2nd and 6th, my children studied slavery every year, in addition to the horrors the white man visited upon the Indians. They studied the “enormous cultural contributions” of these two groups and a rosy picture of peaceful, loving people was painted. In contrast to the one white group focused on - the Vikings, with special attention to the “berserkers” ( think I have that right). I started home schooling after school and on weekends - just a few hours a week, to try and cover a few minor things left untouched as of 6th grade by their top notch public and private schools - Greeks, Romans, etc.
My oldest is in high school and has been bringing home handouts copied from Zinn’s “People’s History” that are assigned reading. Liberal garbage. The American educational system turns out vast numbers of poorly educated “products” incapable of critical analysis because the curriculum is designed to indoctrinate the multicultural message that every culture is important and has something to teach us - except the one deemed white (ignoring its very roots). A suburban school, or a private one is no guarantee of immunity to the same garbage being taught in an inner city school - the teachers are often products of the same education schools/teacher’s colleges where self-esteem and multiculti reign supreme, and history is rewritten to serve as propaganda. Anti-white, anti-American propaganda.
Posted by MM at 2:48 AM on March 30
For those that are interest in Black History I would highly recommend this website.
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
Black Invention Myths
“Perhaps you’ve heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
Such beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with misunderstandings, wishful thinking, or fanciful embellishments with no historical basis. The lack of historical perspective leads to extravagant overestimations of originality and importance: sometimes a slightly modified version of a pre-existing piece of technology is mistaken for the first invention of its type; sometimes a patent or innovation with little or no lasting value is portrayed as a major advance, even if there’s no real evidence it was ever used.”
Posted by Drifter at 8:30 PM on March 30
“This is the only such museum in the state of Iowa,” said McKinley fifth-grade teacher Ta Rae Evans, The field trip [was] a perfect way to conclude our social studies unit on Black History Month.”
Well I hope that Ta Rae (whether he or she) learned something. I’m sure there’s a lot of black history to be found in Iowa!
“Jordan Nelson said he was astonished that slaves were permitted only one meal a day.”
“What surprised me was that kids weren’t allowed to own shoes until they were 12”
Where do they get this stuff? It was not to a master’s interest to starve his slaves! Or abuse his slaves. How could he get any work out of them? And I suppose they received a whipping once a week too? Just for the master’s fun, of course.
“I had no idea Iowa played such a significant role in the Underground Railroad,” she said.
Well, I had no idea either! And I still don’t. Where would such slaves be going? Western Canada wasn’t developed at that time. There were no railroads or highways or population centers yet there. There was noplace for escaped slaves to go. And slaves coming up the Mississippi, or from St. Louis, would have jumped off in Illinois, well before they got to Iowa. There might have been a trickle coming into Iowa up from Kansas City, but KC didn’t really start developing until well AFTER the Civil War. In 1853, it was a tiny town with a pop. of only 2500. And Winnipeg wasn’t even incorporated as a city until 1873. The total black population of Iowa in 1860 was only 1069, most of them being free mulattoes. Where were all those escaped black slaves?
THAT is actual history! What they’re teaching isn’t history, it’s propaganda and fiction.
Posted by browser at 10:03 PM on March 30
“Jordan Nelson said he was astonished that slaves were permitted only one meal a day. “I know I couldn’t live that way,” he said.”
What selective nonsense is pumped into these little children’s impressionable minds, all for modern day political objectives. It is absurd to make such a sweeping generalization, since the conditions of slaves would individually vary: There was no national policy “slaves may only have one meal a day”. In fact the material conditions of slaves compared favorably with whites of that time. Reference for example “Time On the Cross” by (1993 Nobel Laureate) Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman:
Regarding slavery as practiced in the U.S. South: “The belief that slave-breeding, sexual exploitation… destroyed the black family is a myth.” “Most slave sales were either of whole families or of individuals who were at an age when it would have been normal for them to have left the family” “The material conditions of the lives of slaves compared favorably with those of free industrial workers” “Slaves were exploited in the sense that part of the income was expropriated…but the rate was lower than generally presumed” “Over the course of his lifetime the typical slave field hand received about 90% of the income he produced”
But why is this in Iowa in any case: There was no slavery in Iowa. In fact, many white boys from Iowa died and many more horrifically mutilated fighting in the Union army against the South.
And do you ever suppose these kids will be taken to the “Victims of Communism Museum” to learn about the 1/3 of humanity that was enslaved under Marxist regimes for the better part of the past century, or the 100 million human beings murdered by Communist regimes. This is, after all, a lot more relevant and still present threat than slavery in the U.S. South that ended 150 years ago. All parties involved in that are DEAD, many generations ago. Millions of victims of communism are still alive today. And millions still live under communist slavery (North Korea, Cuba,…).
Posted by at 10:38 PM on March 30
“Children’s growing feet will be shod whenever a newly fitting shoe is required?
America was mainly rural ‘til after WW2. On our farm, the operator’s youngest children walked around and played shoeless during the summer months. That was in the late 50’s!! ” —- Walt
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Oh, now I see. Well, finally that makes some sense. Thanks, Walt. I’m sure that children in the South, and all over the country, went shoeless in the 1800’s [just look at all pictures of Huckleberry Finn] — and went that way well into the 20th century too. That was nothing unusual for the time — and not reserved for blacks alone. How selective they are about whining over their “suffering”!
My family did not consider itself “poor” but was not well-off either. Even so, when I was a kid, in the Depression years of the 30s and the war-rationing years of the 40s, we used to cover the holes in our shoes by cutting out cardboard inserts made from cereal boxes. These, however, wore out quickly. Later, much better more durable ones could be made of plastic cut from bottles, when plastics became available (such as detergent bottles).
Also, old leather, such as purses, could be recycled. We did our own shoe repairs. I remember my father had a kit for this. (He also rolled his own cigarettes with a little machine for that purpose.) It was costly to keep replacing shoes for a growing child, and active kids wore shoes out quickly. It was perfectly common to go barefoot in summer. No big deal and no disgrace. In fact, kids liked it.
Those days are long past and forgotten by all but the elderly. Now, kids have “fashion boots” and designer sneakers that cost a small fortune, and are shocked that people didn’t have them in 1850. What these spoiled kids need is to learn some REAL history!
Posted by at 10:53 PM on March 30
“My oldest is in high school and has been bringing home handouts copied from Zinn’s “People’s History” that are assigned reading.”
Have your son print out the following about Howard Zinn and “People’s History”, make a bunch of copies, and distribute to every kid in his class, as well as his teacher:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939
Here are some on-line articles that are reading materials school kids should be required to read:
“Race and Slavery in the Middle East” by Bernard Lewis
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/lewis1.html
Islamic Slavery, Rape, and Genocide:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=16027ED9-FFFE-4E3C-B9B6-30E0F0D980FC
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
by Ibn Warraq (Prometheus, 2007)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=97CCC078-DF30-4A61-9BB4-D017510779CC
And this should be required viewing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410
Eveyone should e-mail the above links to every person they know, especially any kids in school, and urge them to do likewise.
Posted by at 12:31 AM on March 31
I am sorry, but $200 pairs of atheletic shoes are not a “civil right.”
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:11 PM on March 31
“On our farm, the operator’s youngest children walked around and played shoeless during the summer months.”
In the old South, so many people being barefoot caused very widespread hookworm infection, with its resultant listlissness in a large part of the population.
Posted by H. Dumpty at 10:15 AM on April 1
This is the way our children are being psychologically enslaved so that as they grow up feeling ashamed of their own skin color they will be passive victims as they submit to oppressed second class citizen status, racially discriminated against and racially vilified at every turn in their lives.
Posted by at 10:26 PM on April 2
