Tag: us history

lilacbreastedroller:

lilacbreastedroller:

AP US History, aka US Propaganda: The Standardized Test

like so much of US history classes even prior to AP is literal propaganda. in middle school i had a teacher who told us his favorite president was andrew jackson bc he was a real cool tough guy who told it like it is. in elementary school i had a teacher who screamed at me that socialism was bad bc we would only be able to buy one kind of toothpaste. they were both friendly adults who were liked by the whole class. and they were putting all that garbage in our tiny brains.

I did a lot of research on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in my 9th AP Prep English class because we had to write a paper relating to Jurassic Park regarding humans doing danger science.

This resulted in me barely refraining from punching a dude in (non AP; my undiagnosed Autistic ass did not have the brain space for the extra work on that especially when US History was Not My Jam) time11th grade history who said that alternatives to dropping the atomic bombs “wouldn’t have been as cool.” I did yell at at him that nothing is cool about vaporizing people and made the class go quiet for a moment.

thecheshirecass:

black-to-the-bones:

He was an activist who inspired millions to fight for their rights. He knew what was wrong with our country and risked his life to help his people achieve equality.  In the society where black were treated like animal he did everything possible to change this. His brave soul, his will and courage changed the history of America , changed the people. He made us believe we can win this war. He payed for it with his life. He will always be remembered.

Respecting his memory also means acknowledging that his fight is far from over, black people are facing the same issues that ha birth to the Black Panthers, and that the FBI is basically trying to launch COINTELPRO 2.0 against BLM and other black activists. Hampton should be more than a history lesson, he should be a rallying point.

princesskilljoy:

disneyvillainsforjustice:

-teesa-:

7.23.14

George Takei describes the moment when he and his family were sent to an internment camp.

“Another scene I remember now as an adult is every morning at school we started the day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag…there was the American flag flying over the camp but I could also see the barbed wire fence and the sentry towers pointing at us from my schoolhouse window as I recited the words ‘With liberty and justice for all’.” – George Takei, The Daily Show (July 24, 2014). 

Full Episode (apologies, The Daily Show website does not have the best video player). 

To Be Takei documentary official website. 

– Mod Dawes Sr. 

Let’s not forget either that while there are people alive who remember being in those camps, there are probably also people alive who supported those camps and possibly still do.

thinksquad:

Today marks the anniversary of FDR signing executive order 9066, which authorized the “indefinite detention” of nearly 150,000 people on American soil.

The order authorized the Secretary of War and the U.S. Army to create military zones “from which any or all persons may be excluded.” The order left who might be excluded to the military’s discretion. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt inked his name to EO9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, it opened the door for the roundup of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese citizens living along the west coast of the U.S. and their imprisonment in concentration camps. In addition, between 1,200 and 1,800 people of Japanese descent watched the war from behind barbed wire fences in Hawaii. Of those interned, 62 percent were U.S. citizens. The U.S. government also caged around 11,000 Americans of German ancestry and some 3,000 Italian-Americans.