WHATEVER

[green]

So my mom bought a book (small book) on black history. It is written by a white man. This guy. She said she enjoyed it.

One good thing came out of it, though. She finally stopped saying that the Confederate flag is a matter of heritage.

Comments

[theantijoss]

Wow, that's... not a resource I would recommend for learning about black history. Or really, any history outside right wing white bigot guys'. Which, if you think about it, is kind of most of American history (at least what we got when we were kids).

I was actually embarrassed the other day, going through a box of stuff from when I was a young teenager, to find I had a bandana with a confederate flag on it! I know it was from when I spent my summers down south, and it was just the "hip" thing to do, and I didn't fully understand the implications of such. But still, it was a visceral shock to find it in my stuff. I'm not even sure what to do with it. Burn it? Bleach it out and use it as a rag?

[sorrel]

WHAT THE HELL. That's so wrong I can't even. Ugh.

Well, I guess you could say that the Confederate flag is a matter of heritage, it's just a heritage of which one should be ashamed.

[this_caia]

If she's committed to learning about black people from white people, get her some Tim Wise.