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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

[b]Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.[/b]
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

[b]Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea.  And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.[/b]
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I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.[/quote]

I knew about it.

I asked earlier for a link to the survey.  I cannot find any information on it. [/quote]
I’m not sure what your post is meant to show. I’m not the person who posted the link-less survey result, but IIRC from the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, it didn’t seem like the average American knew much about Black history or how Black history IS American history. [/quote]
+1 It was pretty clear that very few people knew about the Tulsa massacre before Trump planned a rally on the anniversary, or Juneteenth before it became a federal holiday. There’s information earlier in this thread indicating that events like this that happened in Florida aren’t being taught to Florida students. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/06/07/gov-ron-desantis-targets-critical-race-theory-as-florida-examines-academic-standards/
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-race-massacre-rosewood-1923-erased-from-history-163323201.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr&utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com[/quote]

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