At this rate, I can see a hammer coming...
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?My public school history classes certainly talked about the cotton gin. Before that, slaves were mostly growing rice and indigo and that wasn't very profitable IIRC.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlaySo, we all agree that minority experience, as the way the hands that built America joined this country, is something that should be taught to the next generations? Also, I think it could be spun in a way that makes everyone happy: instead of phrasing it as "this is what our mean white ancestors have done to the poor sad rainbow people" make it "this is how men and women from all over the world escaped corrupt, repressive, stagnated, evil countries and came over here, and through their hard work and sweat and tears they helped build this wonderful country and earned their place in it as worthy proud citizens, because what matters to this great nation is not the color of your skin or the roundenss of your ass, it's how much you burned that skin and busted that ass in contributing to its greatness and-" wait, I'm going into full caricature right now...
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Definitely. I heard being a Catholic wasn't a picnic here for a while.
And the Atheists are still undergoing a "minority experience".
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Yeah, slavery was just too unprofitable and dying until the cotton gin was designed.
Fight smart, not fair.I suppose that's why the Founding Fathers expected it to just die out over time without causing civil war.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayThus slavery remaining in the US as long as it did was owing to a case of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!?
Yeah, it wasn't until more recently that they were able to automate the cotton hoovers. And they have six digit price tags.
Fight smart, not fair.teal deer five pages
"History books are about history, or at least they should be. It's a written account of something that happened, ideally with little bias."
lol texas school board and "let's talk some more about the modern conservative movement!"
...and someone forgetting that classes rarely get that far in the first place. Idiots.

Oh, was I stuck on the loop again?
Fight smart, not fair.