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10 Items Criminally Left Out Of My Education

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infinite59:
1.  I was taught about how great the Beatles and Beathoven were in music class, but hip-hop had been written out of America's musical history.  

2.  I was taught about how great Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks were, but never taught about Malcolm X or Huey P. Newton.

3.  I was taught about George Washington Carver making peanuts but never taught about Nat Turner leading a revolutionary slave rebellion that was on the cusp of freeing the whole south.

4.  I was taught about David Karesh but never taught about how Elijah Muhammad transformed the lives of 35,000 black people in America.

5.  I was taught about the disgusting displays of religious ignorance in the Salam Witch Trials but never taught about how Islamic and Chinese civilizations were world leaders for nearly 700 years.

6.  I was told why capatalism and democracy were the greatest systems, without even allowing us the oppurtunity to compare it to communism, socialism, collectivism, proletarianism.

7.  I was taught about how Jesus and Christianity captured the minds of countries far and near, but I had never heard of Muhammad ibn Abdullah or about Islam spreading with similar success.

8.  I was taught about Martin Luther and the Crusades for Christ(Christendom) and religious expansion, but denied the knowledge of similar Islamic conquests by 12th century Muslim general Salah Al Din who threw those crusaders back and recaptured Jerusalam.

9.  I was taught of the Roman Catholic Church but never of the significance of the Ottoman Empire.

10.  I was taught about writers like Shakespeare who wrote passively of love, and never taught about Richard Wright and James Baldwin who wrote with strong conviction about revolution and justice.

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As you can see I was denied a proper education in school, my education was grafted and skewed, and in the same respect the view of myself and my potential upon leaving highschool was limited.  Because I knew nothing of the world or my potential in it.

Sikotic™:
That's messed up man. Alot of what you mentioned I was actually exposed too in school at least (like Malcom X, Ottoman Empire, gov't systems, etc). I wouldn't say I was actually "educated" but exposed yes.

Educators are wary of teaching history about Islam, but hopefully that will change and people will recieve more education about it in the coming years.

Don Seer:
you live in a mostly christian country - deal with it. you are a minority (even within your own faith).

you'd never learn that stuff in an islamic country either. they'd probably kill or ransom you for being a westerner.

infinite59:

--- Quote ---you live in a mostly christian country - deal with it. you are a minority (even within your own faith).

you'd never learn that stuff in an islamic country either. they'd probably kill or ransom you for being a westerner.
--- End quote ---


I can't get with or comprehend that tough self-effacing "deal with it" type of rhetoric... what the fuck does that mean anyway?  I dealt with the shit, and I didn't like it, so what's your point?

M Dogg™:
Love ya Overseer, but really in American, minorities don't know how to deal with it. It's our history, we take shit for awhile, then we fight back. The U.S. had slavery for hundreds of years, but 90 of them well under the U.S. government, then slaves said enough. Later women stepped up, then later all minorities in the 1960's, and now after 9-11, I see a lot more Muslim influice, and more Islamic issues being brought up. It's time for the U.S. to wake up to it, and I think it is.

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