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I just don't understand what that statement is supposed to mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.
I do agree that it would be helpful to have additional black perspectives to weigh in on this discussion. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't seem to have a lot of racial diversity yet. Hopefully we will get there eventually.
A lot of "black history" that is taught is just slavery and some of civil rights, the rest of it (like black wall street, the legislations of early black representatives, the inventions and cultural development from a mixed background to more of a regional blend) isn't commonly taught in school and a lot of it is pretty cool.
We have voip, super soakers, and a ridiculous number or uses for peanuts thanks to black history just to scratch the surface.
That slaps right? Getting to know all the good and the bad instead of just the bad and a smattering of civil rights?
That does slap. But it's also just putting a focus on the feel-good parts instead of the whole reality. And that's not really history imho. It's just isolated stories without the context that real history demands.
You could also say that white history slaps from that perspective, but that'd be quite insensitive and naive. I'm not trying to make a false equivalency, but I'm just pointing out that if you ignore the painful parts of history, you can't really learn from it. And that's the whole point of studying history as an academic pursuit.
Where did I ignore the painful parts?
I just said you instead of using the third person one, because it sounds less pretentious. It was a hypothetical, I wasn't referring to you personally.
You could have also used the non pretentious third person "People"