Students say AP African American Studies course is "history everybody should know"

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @felishapittman2778
    @felishapittman2778 Год назад +37

    I teach it and I can tell you my scholars are enjoying the course. It is NOT what people have been fed to believe. I almost did not teach it because of the controversy that has been labeled with this course. I am so glad that I have been chosen to teach this amazing class.

    • @DarkmanRides
      @DarkmanRides Год назад

      As long as it is an all-inclusive course okay. That would be acknowledging that their own people sold them. It would be in America it was the Democrats who endorsed slavery and continue to do so in the South under Jim Crow laws up until the mid-1970s. Teach them that the southern strategy is a bunch of BS. Teach them about what Booker T Washington said about a certain class of negroes and the grievance industry and making money from it. Then also teach them that they were enslaved in the Ottoman Empire before the white man landed on Plymouth Rock. Are any of those in your coursework? Serious question don't dodge it.

    • @lindahubbard-brinston6741
      @lindahubbard-brinston6741 Год назад +3

      Good for you, sis! Thank you for stepping up to the proverbial educator of integrity plate. Thank you for everything you're doing to cultivate in the minds of your students an appreciation for accurate historical information.

  • @lazymp9046
    @lazymp9046 Год назад +70

    Facts are not "an agenda" and, quite literally, not "propaganda". Teaching African American history, Native American history, Asian American history, Mexican American history and women's studies should be MANDITORY in HS. It doesn’t "teach hate", it informs and empowers EVERYONE.

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      Emblem of the Americas1798 they will never teach the truth. Not African Americans or black

    • @lindahubbard-brinston6741
      @lindahubbard-brinston6741 Год назад +1

      AMEN!!!

  • @cynthiahonorio9758
    @cynthiahonorio9758 Год назад +14

    Good to know that Lisa Ling is joining your network!

  • @j.cobbin4638
    @j.cobbin4638 Год назад +6

    I'm curious to know what's the difference between this HS level course and a "normal" University level African American studies course? What's the controversy, exactly? Don't the HS students have some out of pocket cost to get credit for the 3 credit college course? Seems premium and on par with our societal perspectives and standards, if you ask me.

  • @poosie52
    @poosie52 Год назад +1

    I'd Teach Them Everything About African American History With Truth And Authentic Facts Only!

  • @nicoles9077
    @nicoles9077 Год назад +19

    I’m a 50 year old black woman born and raised in the south. When I was in school we were taught about the horrors of slavery, their living conditions, civil war, second class citizenship after the civil war, Jim Crow etc. Are these things not taught in school anymore? Why is there a separate course for something that’s already discussed in American history? If it’s not taught anymore then the discussion should be about the dumbing down of our schools. Why do our kids know lyrics to so many hip hop songs but probably can’t name the capital of 20 states?

    • @james99118
      @james99118 Год назад +3

      Thank you Nicole. I learned these things in school in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s American history the good and the bad OURstory. It’s not separate for each race.

    • @JinMadeOfWin
      @JinMadeOfWin Год назад +3

      You apparently went to a different school than I did. The schools I attended in Georgia glossed over slavery and suggested the civil war had little to do with slavery and was all about “states rights”. When I attended school in PA, they spent much more time on slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights.

    • @nicoles9077
      @nicoles9077 Год назад

      @@JinMadeOfWin well it’s sad you had a poor education. And apparently many other Americans are so poorly taught we need a separate course for basic American history everyone used to know.

    • @sharimeline3077
      @sharimeline3077 Год назад +7

      There’s much more to know about Black history than what you can learn in a general American history course. I have a degree in history, and one thing I can tell you is that a deeper dive into Black history will only be enlightening and empowering to all students. Don’t advocate for less education, advocate for more.

    • @DakotaFord592
      @DakotaFord592 Год назад +1

      The textbooks whitewashed everything!! lol. least my experience in elementary, middle, and high.

  • @hippiechick2112
    @hippiechick2112 Год назад +12

    I did not know that they taught this!! How wonderful!! I do not understand why they are eliminating this course.

    • @nghtwtchmn129
      @nghtwtchmn129 Год назад +1

      Why not? Schools are eliminating AP classes in everything else because they are discriminatory.

    • @bomega2818
      @bomega2818 Год назад

      Because elected officials don’t like critical thinking, free thinkers are a threat for them.

    • @icevariable9600
      @icevariable9600 Год назад +1

      It’s called racism.

  • @havefunpk
    @havefunpk Год назад +1

    The man is WRONG at 4:46 of video. People are disproportionately in jail due to BEHAVIOR, not laws or skin tone.

  • @TangentOmega
    @TangentOmega Год назад

    Be proud it's "woke". It "wakes" people from ignorance!

  • @MelaninConsciousness
    @MelaninConsciousness 6 месяцев назад

    I am going in school to become a professor in african american studies. I am so excited and cant wait to teach my kids about themselves which we did not have the privilege to do like other cultures.

  • @ceciledwards454
    @ceciledwards454 Год назад +2

    Especially after I have researched the history of the conflict of Israel and Palestine and now having a greater understanding of it all, I completely agree African American history should be studied!!! History is important to greater understand the events of today.

    • @DarkmanRides
      @DarkmanRides Год назад

      And what did your studies about the israeli-palestinian conflict bring to light?

    • @wreiad
      @wreiad Год назад

      What in the world does Israel-Palestine have to do with this?

    • @DarkmanRides
      @DarkmanRides Год назад

      @@wreiad he did not tell you but I will. He is a Black Hebrew Israelite they believe the Jews that currently occupy Israel are not the original Israelites. What they are is a bunch of racist that believes every other race but the white man will be in heaven and if they are in heaven they will be Servants of the people of color. I study a lot of things and I picked up on what he was saying real quick even though he didn't say it outright I'm what you call a quick study😉 so that's how Israel and Palestine got imported into African American history. Now just sit back and say wow🤣 knowledge is power

    • @ceciledwards454
      @ceciledwards454 Год назад

      @@wreiad the gist of what I was saying is at the end of my earlier comment and important especially due to my ignorance before I researched the history of the current war.

  • @tubekxb
    @tubekxb Год назад +9

    African American history fine. Some Ibram Kendi propaganda - nope.

    • @bobwilliams4895
      @bobwilliams4895 Год назад +1

      This

    • @13579hee
      @13579hee Год назад +1

      ​@@bobwilliams4895If that were the case you all would have supported the idea of black American history being taught 10 years ago... But you didn't. Stop using him as an excuse to justify your racist belief and why it is you oppose America addressing the harsh realities of what many white Americans allowed to happen to black Americans across centuries

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      Emblem of the Americas1798 they need to teach real history. Not black and African. Definition of of American Webster's first edition1828. No black no African

    • @bobwilliams4895
      @bobwilliams4895 Год назад +1

      @13579hee Black history has been taught. We even have something called Black history month. Not sure what you are complaining about.

  • @scubamaz1
    @scubamaz1 Год назад +2

    I'd be curious if they touch on modern day slavery in Africa & it's African history.

  • @kingsandqueenskingsandquee8616

    It's time for judgment on America

  • @ImagineOnward
    @ImagineOnward Год назад +9

    Most Americans can't even name all fifty states and where. Good Luck

  • @tiboregoldberger6817
    @tiboregoldberger6817 Год назад +3

    Asian American studies native American Aztec Inca Maya Jewish Americans Pacific island people Slavic race irish-american Italian-American
    0:21

    • @13579hee
      @13579hee Год назад

      It's very telling the way in which so many of you automatically become so interested in other non-black non-white people groups the minute Black Americans get some type of acknowledgment lol

  • @ohotnitza
    @ohotnitza Год назад

    Why not teach it?? AP courses are typically electives. If kids want to learn it, let them.

  • @RonnieStanley-tc6vi
    @RonnieStanley-tc6vi Год назад +3

    Yeah. Let the schools teach history based on skin color. That will definitely end well.

    • @RagsRighteous
      @RagsRighteous Год назад

      You mean like the AP European History course that I took when I was in high school? smh

  • @dianalord5825
    @dianalord5825 Год назад

    It should be taught at home. Why let your enemy teach your history?

    • @jessdemott6777
      @jessdemott6777 Год назад

      Can college credit be taught at home?

    • @dianalord5825
      @dianalord5825 Год назад

      @@jessdemott6777 yes online. But black hidtory should be taught consistently whole child is little through teens.

  • @angelinimartini
    @angelinimartini Год назад

    I’m all for teaching history but if I tell a person of African American descent that my ancestors, who were primarily of Latino and Native American descent, were lynched too, they look at me like I’m crazy… in my grade school days I learned more our predominately white conquerors and the people that were unfortunately sold to these lands than I did about my own predominant heritage(I am about half Native North American and Hawaiian and then the rest is about everything else under the Sun. My ancestors loved diversity). The people who were here before anyone else… I do hope more time is spent on actually learning about the history of all the people that have been here or have come here through time by different measures. And of course, more time getting people to actually understand and use STEM courses. It’s very important to make these younger generations more well rounded.

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад +1

      Emblem of the Americas1798 we are not Africans or black. We are the American Indians

    • @TheBLGL
      @TheBLGL Год назад +1

      If you’re Latino, you should probably know that part comes from Spain, aka Europe, aka white, and they did as many terrible things as Anglo conquerors. They are literally called conquistadors because that’s the word for conquerors in Spanish. They came here well before the English. For example, the Palace of Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was built before the Mayflower arrived (1610 vs 1620). They did many, many terrible things to the Natives, but most notable is Juan de Oñate. He is known for the Acoma massacre, and ordering the right foot to be cut off 24 Acoma men as well. He was such a b*stars that he was expelled from New Spain (now New Mexico). However, Latinos see him as founding father, and have literally SHOT people at two protests involving his statue, one in Albuquerque in 2020 (Steven Baca) and one just recently in Española (Ryan Martinez). Media outside New Mexico labeled Martinez as “white” (we say Anglo here, because Spanish-descent people can be white) because they don’t understand the complexities of ethnic relations in NM. But they aren’t Anglos, as an Anglo Mew Mexican myself I can assure you we don’t give two sh*ts about Oñate, and frankly I personally want Kit Carson’s name removed from the streets and parks in Taos for what HE did to the Navajo (he played a major role in the Long Walk). So my whole point is you don’t seem to know your own history, talking about “Latinos” as if they weren’t the original oppressors. Latin Americans understand this, they have a statue in Ecuador of a conquistador having gold poured down his throat by the Natives. But Latinos in the US think because they can be marginalized in SOME states, that their ancestors were treated poorly. That is true in some cases, it does not negate what the Spanish did, and that needs to be reckoned with just as it is being for Anglos and the French. Sorry to tell you you have ancestors who are both good and bad. Actually, I’m not, because if you go far enough back, we ALL have good and bad ancestors, no one race or ethnic group is all good or bad, too bad Americans have a hard time grasping nuance and reality.

    • @angelinimartini
      @angelinimartini Год назад

      @@TheBLGL if you read my comment, I did say I was only half Native. Yes I am fully aware that I also have other ancestors. Yes descendants from Spain, the Basque region, Portugal. My dad was of Hawaiian, Mexican Native, Irish and Portuguese blood mixed in with a few Scandinavian countries. My mom had all of the Native that centered around Texas and New Mexico. Perhaps I should have worded my comment better because yes I am fully aware of how bad the Spanish in particular were… hell it would be hard to not know. Starting in Mexico with the Conquistadors there. The missions all over the place that sought to erase a culture by all means we’re definitely not nice to the Natives. Landed Natives here which were few, had a hard time keeping their lands.

    • @angelinimartini
      @angelinimartini Год назад

      @@TheBLGL also, lynchings which I had referred to happened even in the 1900s to people who looked like my grandparents. My maternal grandparents, which I grew up with, had a fear of traveling at night. Atrocities happened to people who looked like them, who were people descended from Latin countries mixed with native. They were true Tejanos. The type that in the late 1800s faced expulsion by violent means from any land they had in south Texas.

  • @hwizell7478
    @hwizell7478 Год назад +1

    Constitutional
    Teach living documents like
    Bill of Rights to self
    #haiku #education #constitutional

  • @mprkg
    @mprkg Год назад

    Very glad Lisa on cbs now. Get rid if that awful black rip off Michael Strahan guy now

    • @marciaboyd2105
      @marciaboyd2105 Год назад

      bot account

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      Go learn your color's hes not black. Definition of American Webster's first edition1828. He is copper colored

  • @fabbehn0190
    @fabbehn0190 Год назад

    LOVE IT!

  • @stochasticdifferentialeq.1393
    @stochasticdifferentialeq.1393 Год назад +1

    They are in the process of elimination and removal of AP Calc, Physics and Other core important AP subjects from high school curriculum but sure let's incorporate AP African American Studies to replace those traditional STEM oriented AP courses so the student can be well trained whe they go on to college.

    • @icevariable9600
      @icevariable9600 Год назад +3

      It’s not replacing STEM. It’s teaching history.
      What are afraid of?

    • @CMills8674
      @CMills8674 Год назад +5

      Stop lying, my kids are taking those so called eliminated classes this semester.

    • @13579hee
      @13579hee Год назад +3

      History classes literally have absolutely nothing to do with the stem... But your opinion surely has something to do with racism 🤣

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      Emblem of the Americas1798. Definition of American1828 Webster first edition. Teach us real American history not black and African history

  • @somethingunscripted
    @somethingunscripted Год назад

    How is any AP course bad.. this does divert from the real issue CRT

  • @laurab9518
    @laurab9518 Год назад

    Can white people enroll in that? I’m sure it’s very interesting and we should all be living as one. We are all the same species 🤔

  • @PK1982_
    @PK1982_ Год назад

    No problems with teaching History as it happened, but using the past to justify victimhood is another.

  • @robinly
    @robinly Год назад +3

    What a joke of a course. How is this course going to help anyone in life? It won't.

  • @Baja2424
    @Baja2424 Год назад +10

    Every black person is not from Africa

    • @buffalosoldier585
      @buffalosoldier585 Год назад +1

      You need to read.

    • @Baja2424
      @Baja2424 Год назад

      @@buffalosoldier585 do you need to read every black person is not from Africa

    • @julioalberto2794
      @julioalberto2794 Год назад

      You and all your fellow blacks need to get together and make up your damn minds

    • @icevariable9600
      @icevariable9600 Год назад

      Nobody said all blacks are from Africa. Get rid of that chip on your shoulder.

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      ​@@julioalberto2794Emblem of the Americas1798 from South America to Canada they don't look Asian to me.Definition of American Webster's first edition1828. Not black or African. Go get your history straight

  • @bobwilliams4895
    @bobwilliams4895 Год назад +7

    It can't be the leftist spin of history.

    • @KlngVJames
      @KlngVJames Год назад +2

      So whats was the right wing spin of history then?

    • @bobwilliams4895
      @bobwilliams4895 Год назад

      @xxDestroyedxx1 Every right wing person I know is happy to teach history truthfully as it happened. The left wants to teach the America is systemically racist spin.

    • @otange599
      @otange599 Год назад +1

      ​@@KlngVJamesAmerican history

    • @HenriettaHudson-we4wv
      @HenriettaHudson-we4wv Год назад

      The real problem is: no one wants to hear the truth about America anymore!!

    • @bobwilliams4895
      @bobwilliams4895 Год назад

      @HenriettaHudson-we4wv Ok you explain it.

  • @13579hee
    @13579hee Год назад

    Oh GOD.......... racist are gonna cry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @osphranterrufus
    @osphranterrufus Год назад

    He was asked if he taught history, he said he inculcates "his kids" that they are all beautiful and brilliant. He admits he's not a teacher, he's a flimflam preacher selling entitlement over learning and being productive.

  • @southmo
    @southmo Год назад +4

    Finally an AP class that blacks can not flunk out of

    • @bomega2818
      @bomega2818 Год назад

      So educational success is bound to color skin?

    • @linardmccloud1056
      @linardmccloud1056 Год назад +6

      I graduated from high school having passed 7 AP courses and went to college with 25 credits as a result and AP AA history was no where around…and I am black. What is your point?

    • @marciaboyd2105
      @marciaboyd2105 Год назад

      Yay a comedian who makes funny

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      Emblem of the Americas1798. Definition of American Webster's first edition1828. Quit calling us black and African. We are the real American copper colored people

    • @gew2027
      @gew2027 Год назад

      ​@@linardmccloud1056Emblem of the Americas1798. Real history they will never teach

  • @18Akyra
    @18Akyra Год назад +2

    Doutrinação. Dividir para conquistar.

    • @13579hee
      @13579hee Год назад

      I'm pretty sure that, given the fact that this country has a history of division caused by white people... It's already been divided and conquered lol

  • @DarkmanRides
    @DarkmanRides Год назад +1

    The best thing about this course is even though you can only read at a seventh or eighth grade level as a junior or senior in high school you can pass it it's so easy a caveman could do it😂😂

  • @Baja2424
    @Baja2424 Год назад

    Damn

  • @coreytrevor1311
    @coreytrevor1311 Год назад

    Do they teach “Ebonics”?

    • @ARISZN
      @ARISZN Месяц назад

      I bet you'd like to learn huh pinky?

  • @bonehead3545
    @bonehead3545 Год назад +2

    The true will free you.