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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8025013" data-attributes="member: 19675">There are better ways to teach those lessons than airing Song of the South, though.&nbsp; Without going too deeply into it, a goodly amount of American History as taught simply glosses over the bad.&nbsp; Even with Black History Month being a thing for decades, some people (of all ethnicities) are only this year hearing about the Tulsa Massacre...not to mention the literal dozens of other massacres and similar events, like the levee bombings of 1927, the killing of black politicians after the a Civil War, or the defrauding of Black farmers and GIs (and the stuff that happened to other minorities as well).*Personally, I‘d rather see less emphasis on putting film, music, sculpture, etc, in their proper context and more emphasis in actually teaching the context.&nbsp; Most non-bigots will agree that things were bad and got better.&nbsp; But currently most people don’t understand HOW bad things were, nor that some truly nasty things haven’t ended yet.&nbsp; IOW, most people are only looking at the surfaces of the issues- until you start digging deep, those wounds aren’t going to heal well.* And I bet you’d find a similar downplaying of the bad in most countries’ <s>scolding </s>schooling history curricula.)Edit: “scolding“ was a typo!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8025013, member: 19675"] There are better ways to teach those lessons than airing [I]Song of the South[/I], though. Without going too deeply into it, a goodly amount of American History as taught simply glosses over the bad. Even with Black History Month being a thing for decades, some people (of all ethnicities) are only this year hearing about the Tulsa Massacre...not to mention the literal dozens of other massacres and similar events, like the levee bombings of 1927, the killing of black politicians after the a Civil War, or the defrauding of Black farmers and GIs (and the stuff that happened to other minorities as well).* Personally, I‘d rather see less emphasis on putting film, music, sculpture, etc, in their proper context and more emphasis in actually teaching the context. Most non-bigots will agree that things were bad and got better. But currently most people don’t understand HOW bad things were, nor that some truly nasty things [I]haven’t ended yet. [/I]IOW, most people are only looking at the surfaces of the issues- until you start digging deep, those wounds aren’t going to heal well. * And I bet you’d find a similar downplaying of the bad in most countries’ [S]scolding [/S]schooling history curricula.) Edit: “scolding“ was a typo! [/QUOTE]

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