Mike Luckovich for July 09, 2021

That’s right — a free cruise from Africa to the colonies and a guaranteed job when you get there!

When it comes to KKKonfederate monuments (to the losers), today’s faux “conservatives” are all about “we must teach history!”

When it comes to teaching comprehensive, objective, fact-based history that includes the bad stuff along with the good, they are all about “we must NOT teach history.”

By the way, history is taught out of books, movies, libraries and museums, not monuments. Germany teaches the Holocaust (Shoah), but does not allow monuments to the Nazis.

And legal slavery existed in what is now the United States for 246 from 1619 to 1865, if you don’t count the early Spanish settlements in Florida (and legal segregation for another 89 years after that followed by additional years of illegal segregation), whereas the KKKonfederacy only existed for five years.

So of course the losers want us to remember (and honor) the five years and hide the truth about the 335 years.

I notice that all the kids seem to be anglo… though I’m not sure about front row, second from left.

Extremely abridged, that is.

Someone tell Steve Kelley to read this comic. A dose of reality would do him good.

They spell it “his-story”, meaning, what is told by a rich white (sort of) Christian male.

They were happy for the jobs. Always singing while they worked in the fields.

What was the minimum wage at that time? /snicker

“After getting free passage to America, they immediately received jobs from their compassionate job creators…”

Things have not changed much. They don’t pay for room and board so much anymore. The whippings and public hangings are not on TV.

But we have collective bargaining. We can bargain for a lower wage and well-fair. So the system works.

Doesn’t surprise me.

“And now, class, we will watch the documentary, ‘Song of the South.’”

And other “Christian” justifications for slavery:=> Slavery removes people from a culture that “worshipped the devil, practiced witchcraft, and sorcery” and other evils=>Slavery brings heathens to a Christian land where they can hear the gospel. Christian masters provide religious instruction for their slaves.=>Under slavery, people are treated with kindness, as many northern visitors can attest.=>It is in slaveholders’ own interest to treat their slaves well.=>Slaves are treated more benevolently than are workers in oppressive northern factories.

Whitewashed history help no one and hurts everyone.

But don’t you dare remove any statues of confederate generals who fought to preserve those “jobs.” That’s erasing history.

Who were compelled by scripture to do so

“… they immediately received jobs and food stamps and free health care”. Then change the title of the book to “The Liberals’ Immigration Scheme”.

Don’t laugh. This is what Republicans will require by law under the new CRT = Conservative Revisionist Teaching

This would be funnier if it wasn’t so damn ACCURATE. This IS what the Qpublicans want to bastardize American History to sound like.

And they liked it!

A free passage to America, a job, living quarters, and a food allowance for life! What’s not to like? /s

https://youtu.be/Zwj1GJXkNm8

Lest you not forget, free room and board. Swinging from vines and scrounging for grubs is for animals.. they should be grateful for the.. experience. /S

“Benefits included housing and clothing allowance, meal and travel stipend. On-site child care. Their participation in the labor force stimulated the economy and produced a boom in agricultural activity which led to national growth and expansion."

Teachers not teaching this way will be sent to re-education camps.

from farm equipment to president in 400 years

Not to mention housing and agricultural training for most, domestic service for the remainder.

You forgot the part about being freed from the burden of giving birthday and holiday gifts to family members.

This must be Texas schools and books.

In America you get food to eat

Won’t have to run through the jungle

And scuff up your feet

You just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day

It’s great to be an American

Ain’t no lion or tiger, ain’t no mamba snake

Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake

Ev’rybody is as happy as a man can be

Climb aboard, little wog, sail away with me

Sail away, sail away

We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

“Sail Away,” Randy Newman

Growing up in Florida, one of my heroes was the Seminole Osceola. I was never taught a thing about the plight of the Native Americans, had to seek it out on my own. I still wonder how that was skipped over during an otherwise decent education.

More republican lies.

Republican Non Critical Race Diatribe.

Most Republicans don’t want to or refuse to learn the truth.

“And they were grateful and better off because of those jobs… they adored their masters…”

Maya Angelou’s book “All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes” is an interesting account of living and working in Ghana as a Black American Woman in the 1960’s. and is a thoughtful read during this discussion about CRT. I first read it many years ago but, at 71, I’m finding it even more relevant today because of the poor record of teaching US history in my own country. The 1619 Project is a good start to a history lesson.

Would be funnier if not for the truth of it

A few years ago Texas adopted textbooks that said this, basically. Shockingly, a Black family complained, a big stink was made about it, and — lo and behold! — it got changed.

Is this in Texas?

Isn’t that chapter title: “When Africans Swam to America” ?

Good one, Mike. It’s subtly clever but understood that the cover design is reminiscent of the “For Dummies” series.

If only all these people had gone to school and paid attention, they may realise that CRT is NOT being taught in schools.