blackbirdsdeadnights: aninonin:quiteliterallyhotsauce:US history classes taught me nothing usefu
blackbirdsdeadnights: aninonin: quiteliterallyhotsauce: US history classes taught me nothing useful about American history. The race massacres, the racist origins of many laws, violent labor put downs. Nothing that could actually help us address the nations flaws and oust the people who benefit from rigged public opinion. Companies used to wiretap their employees to find out who the labor activists and union leaders were, then they would blackmail or murder them. If they couldn’t do that, they would either hire their own private police, or enlist the aid of local police departments to gun down strikers and protesters with machine guns the companies would supply themselves. And this is why we continue to make the same mistakes today. School doesn’t teach you the “good” history, you have to either read on your own or go to college. Makes you wonder why they don’t want more poor people being able to afford college. -- source link