the-older-dixon-boy: jheselbraum:hekeepsmeworm:wuh2k:bando–grand-scamyon:saurons-optom
the-older-dixon-boy: jheselbraum: hekeepsmeworm: wuh2k: bando–grand-scamyon: saurons-optometrist: captain-rez: solarpunkcast: anarchistcuddles: ineversurrender: Kent State University “The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]” “There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]” Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it… Another picture from Kent State. But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters. Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there What in the absolute fuck When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about… I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it. When I was 21. I was taught this in 9th and 11th grade history who were your teachers what state were you educated in????? You should know this???? It’s a California State History Standard for students to know about this and the other protests that happened during this time on American Soil. Someone needs to start checking their schools standards and calling teachers out on their lack of shit.(Come to think of it my 9th grade history teacher was an openly gay Mexican woman and my 11th grade history teacher was a black male which may play a large part into why they taught this without fear/worry). -- source link