Quotation:
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Comment: This quote is actually the subtitle for the article. I was conflicted on choosing this as my quote specifically because it is the subtitle, but I like what the quote contains, so I figured why not. I picked this because I really liked the way that he had outlined the history of racism in America. It makes it more clear cut, emphasizing how horribly long we have been battling racism in America. I also agree with the statement. Until America can start recognizing the prejudice and racism that goes on everyday and has been going on everyday for years now, we will not see any progress. We need to acknowledge the past and what has happened in this country so that we can make a change in society and so that history doesn’t repeat itself. An example of how we could do this is by actually providing students the right materials in history classrooms. This means we should be explaining history, more specifically the history of racism and slavery in this country instead of sugar coating it or ignoring major parts of history. I had never knew what lynching was until I came to college. I have never been educated on the wars that had been going on in Iraq and Afghanistan in school. In the movie, “Freedom Writers,” which was based on a true story, Miss. Gruwell had a classroom full of minorities and not any of them knew what the Holocaust was.
Question: Why is there not more concern over the gaps and lack of correct education about history?
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