Is it racist?

[Sammy-San]

No, mixed European ancestry from what I know - including some Neanderthal from way back. Mother's family is more recent, although I had great-grandmothers on each side who didn't speak English. Nevertheless, American history is shared American history of us all.

A lot of people don't know their origins. Family histories can be notoriously inaccurate, records lost or simply not made in the first place, secrets kept, lies told, adoptions formal and informally made, etc.

The teacher told one girl in one class in fifth rade about her sayin from a city, that shes not native american and has family before america. dont remember exact words.

I dont remember what african american kids talked about in the origins project.

 

[Ken-1122]

I am a proud African American man. I am proud of the African American history. I am proud of what African Americans accomplished during the Civil Rights Movement. And I am proud of what the students did at Central High School in Little Rock.

But I am not somebody who holds resentment towards anybody. I am not somebody who is expecting an apology from anyone, even though someone told me a long time ago we shouldn't have to continue to apologize for what happened in the Civil Rights Movement. I wasn't there, so I wasn't expecting an apology. But that doesn't mean that I'm not proud of its history. And if you weren't there and had nothing to do with it, you shouldn't have had to apologize at all.

I have to do a research project at school. I have to create a superhero, for example, like Wonder Woman, but it doesn't have to be Wonder Woman I'm just using that as an example. And she or he has to have multiple different super powers, and she or he either changes or stops an event in history from 1873 to 2018. And it just has to be one event, like the civil rights movement or World War II. Or it could be 9/11 or anything that happened in history.

I am doing my research project on the Civil Rights Movement. My fear is because I am African-American and race has actually become very controversial. And I am the only African-American in my history class, which I don't think matters but sometimes I am afraid that it does. I do not believe anyone is racist in my class, but I am just afraid of my project that it is going to cause some friction. I don't know.

I guess my question is, do you think it is racist that an African American loves his own history? Do you think it's racist that an African-American loves his own history above all the other historical events?

Be very blunt with me I can take it, even though in the past or just recently I was not very nice to somebody who criticized me. But I think I can handle it now.

I believe it was David Duke back in the mid 1970’s when he took over the Ku Klux Klan, presented the message “we’re not anti black, we’re just pro white” he said this because he wanted to dispel the violent and hate filled history of the Klan that the public was so used to. But upon further observation, it was clear that the KKK at that time was the same ole Klan everybody was used to, they just had a different leader.

Since then, there has been countless groups who have said “we don’t hate everybody else, we’re just pro (fill in the blank; black, brown, etc. etc.) but upon further observation many of these groups have been as racist as the Ku Klux Klan. Not all of have been that way, just some of them, and it is usually the negative that everybody notices; not the positive. So if you do your project, and you come from the position that you are just pro african american; not anti white, there will be a number of people rolling their eyes at you because of the history those who have used this position.