School asks kids to dress up like African Americans!

@xLETHAL_VIXENx Said

All of the school years, I was taught of each races involvement in America. I'm not sure what school you went to but each school I went to (I moved alot so went to several schools)talked about the hardships of the slaves, the rise in equality, the inventions that helped build America... And they each were of different race. We don't even celebrate the 4th of July without knowing that blacks and Asians fought in our armies. May not be many pages about it in the history books, but bet your a** they are in there.

@shinobinoz Said

Oh come on. I understand how most of your are confused by this. You have to have lived it.

Let attempt to help.
My family does science based teachings in the schools and weave the lesson in while doing First Nation's drum & dance presentations. We discuss that we came in regular clothes but where our powwow regalia for the presentation. We have been greeted with "uhg" "how" "how" "how" & and cupping of hand over mouth to make whoo whoo sounds. We patently let them know that is not polite and that the sound they made where called lulu's or lele's which were made by the women to support the men in battle. Proof that whole families were being attacked by the US Government.
One of our honored elders (a full blood() was dancing once and a bold 8 year old came up and asked if he was a real Indian. He replied he was -that he was Lakota. After the program he had changed into street clothes and while he was loading up is car- this same kid runs up and points an accusing finger in his face exclaiming "Ah HA! I knew you weren't no real Indian!"
So the speakers may well have been shocked.

@xLETHAL_VIXENx Said

Isn't is sad that now a days, simple things are considered gang related?

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@Spinkiegirl Said

Don't be silly....of course I "want the kids learning about where their ancestors came from." Hell, I learned where mine came from wearing a Catholic issued school uniform! And I don't really know if i'am on the "Black History Month" thing or not. American history should rightfully cover ALL the history of our nation! Also, I DO NOT identify myself as an African American. I was born in America, therefore i'am simply American.

@Spinkiegirl Said

Simply AWESOME Bro! Guess what? My dad's nickname for me when I was a little girl was "lulu".......can you believe it! AWESOME! You and I have yet another connection.

@shinobinoz Said

"Black people take everything as racism."
Really? Seems a little all inclusive and all!

@Spinkiegirl Said

May I ask.....can you give us an example of what "HISTORICAL African American attire" is? Because i'am half black, and for the entire 50yrs of my life in this country, I have ALWAYS worn "attire" that everyone else in this country wears. So I don't know what you mean?

@white_swan53 Said

Taken in the context of all the month of February the kids had been studying black history, one day out of the moth they have planned a day with speakers coming in and talking about black history.
I have not ever studied bout daily life in an African village , but it's safe to assume that the people wore attire made from the wild life that they shared the land with.
Huh, that would be called 'leather' .
The school personal couldn't ask the parents to go out and acquire leather attire made from real African wild life so the only logical thing would be animal print attire, don't you think ?
Oh and BTW, there wasn't anything even remotely similar to black history taught in schools in the 1960' and 1970's . I know because I was in school during those decades also.
If I remember right there may have been a very short chapter in our social studies book about slavery and that info had very few facts or reality included in the lesson.

@shinobinoz Said

I know. I've one left in school and three in college.
But they got those few pages worth while all the rest was white history.

@El_Tino Said

How is a picture of an African child in their own clothes racist exactly?

@shinobinoz Said

Great idea. Some of our gangs wear orange here so that might get a kid shot though!

@xLETHAL_VIXENx Said

Because there is more White history than others. It's true and it's not bigotry to say that. NOW there is more history to talk about but it's only 2012, not too long ago all things were done by white people.

Making months for each race is not a way to equalize it.

@Spinkiegirl Said

That of course wouldn't be "racist" IMO, but saying "African American cloths" doesn't sit well. I mean we simply DON'T all dress the same.

@cammie Said

AFRICAN ancestors...what they wore in Africa BEFORE they came to the U.S. That would be hundreds of years ago, not 50

And I'm guessing the reason the teacher felt they had to specify animal print clothes rather than "bling and backwards baseball caps"

BUT..I live in Oz...so maybe Black History IS only the last 50 years ....I know when we learn about Aboriginal History...we're talking 200 years ago...first settlement...not recent history