Un-Teaching History
A School District in South Carolina has made the bold decision of not teaching elements of history pertaining to slavery or The Civil Rights Movement, etc in order to prevent division and consternation among African Americans and Whites—to allow the next generation of the African American culture and the White culture to exist as one without angst and contentiousness.
“The school board voted unanimously to instate a policy wherein students entering kindergarten for the upcoming school year will have thirteen years of education absent the hostility, anxiety, trauma, the controversy surrounding slavery, The N-Word, separatism and the so called plight of African Americans and Native Americans” states Asha Phillip the district’s superintendent.
“To our beautiful children and future, there exists a possibility of life without racism or racist stereotyping that mainly exists because of the knowledge of the extinct and exaggerated history of slavery,” Philip went on to voice.
Mabelene Ashting, an African American parent stated “I’m not necessarily for my kid being raised as a guinea pig, but I will say that I’d probably have a few white friends and would not detest the existence of white folk if I didn’t know all the chaos and mayhem their ancestors caused to my ancestors and how the systematic oppression of African Americans hold us back even to this day.”
“We are fortunate to exist as a one school district, Kindergarten through grade twelve, with the confines of the dorm experience for our middle school and high school students. This will allow parents who opt in to placing their kids in a dorm, to have fewer transitions—school, home and so on—by preventing their kids from learning any details related to slavery,” purported Sindy Prag, the spokesperson for the district.
“I’m absolutely excited about this new policy. As a White man, I honestly feel that my ancestors’ actions negatively affect how people view me” stated Kevin Smith a parent and advocate of the policy. “Hip-Hopping looking Black teens usually give me the middle finger or refuse to say hello as I walk by with my dog. If they had no knowledge of the heinous actions of my ancestors, they’d probably be more receptive to saying hi—perhaps they’d even pet, MAGA, my dog.”
The district has stated that it plans to develop a college where students can feed into and the mayor reports that she will create incentives for students to remain in the town after college.
The mayor’s office has apparently explored ways to cancel Thanksgiving.