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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a big difference between teaching the history and living your life as though it's still going on.  It'd be as though Irish-Americans were going around griping about being oppressed by Norwegian-Americans hundreds of years after the Vikings stopped raiding.

Maybe Barack Obama wasn't taught about those harsh realities but I'm betting he was - but from a different perspective - that of a lesson of history and morality, not as "this is how it is".  As such, he didn't go through life constantly looking at every adversity in life as some supposed evidence of racism and oppression, whether real or imagined, and as such did not feel it or let it hold him back.  He certainly wasn't taught negativity through his experiences with White Americans, and he had about as varied and diverse of an upbringing as anyone can imagine.[/quote]

This is all speculation. You don't know anything about what AAs teach their kids, what Obama learned or didn't learn; you obviously haven't read any of his books.

I'm done with this thread. It has been eye-opening, and not in a good way.

I only participated because my DD lives here and has to grow up with the kids of people posting here, and those kids will certainly form their ideas about AAs based on what they see and hear at home.

I think those who are open to learning have enough information on this thread to at least question their perspectives, and some resources to gain more knowledge if they are intererested. Those who are close-minded, well, as the old folks used to say, "Pray for 'em and keep on stepping."

One thing I learned from this thread is that schools like HUMS, Banneker, HBCUs are still relevant and need to be supported in every way. I dropped a check in the mail to my HBCU today, and I will definitely be sending my DD to at least one high-achieving, majority AA educational institution. If she is left to gain a sense of herself amongst people like a lot of the PPs on this thread, she will have a poor self-image indeed.

DD is 3, and I actually haven't yet had the conversation with her about race; at her current school, and the friends we have, it hasn't been an issue. But I will definitely start the conversation soon, so she will learn at home the truth of her heritage, the strong people she came from to have survived so much persecution and still produce so many great people, and so she will recognize BS like a lot of what has been posted here for what it is and be able to put it in its proper place in her psyche -- the trash can.

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I agree. I just want to say to all the people on this thread trying to tell Black people how to interpret their experience in this country, there are things you will never understand. I knew that once Obama was elected, white folks would feel so absolved of their guilt because a biracial man has made it to the highest office in the Nation. However, I am shocked at the audacity of some to now tell me that the experience of millions of Black people no longer matter. Yes, we have made advances, but YES there are some things that can NEVER be made right. For those of you that think we should all forgive, forget and move on, the moment you reach back into your family tree and find dead ends, come holler at me. Hell, even Nazis kept records! There are things we continue to go through as a people that you never will. From someone who lives it daily to the people who never will I say, "Have a seat."[/quote]

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