Confederate flag, yes or no?

[jeremy1375]

Originally Posted by goodhart

Exactly. Teach what happened, how terrible it was. But there is no need to demonize white people, which is exactly what is taught. That doesn't do good for anyone, just fans the flames. I had a professor once tell my class that minorities are INCAPABLE of being racist. What a load of shit.

I haven't had the experience of any teacher demonizing whites for slavery.

I wonder if your professor was trying to make a point, but used the wrong words. Obviously any person of any color can be racist. But as a whole it isn't possible, at least in a true democracy, for the majority race to be oppressed by a minority race. A minority race can be oppressed by the majority race, however.

[SlowWhite]

Originally Posted by jeremy1375

I haven't had the experience of any teacher demonizing whites for slavery.

I wonder if your professor was trying to make a point, but used the wrong words. Obviously any person of any color can be racist. But as a whole it isn't possible, at least in a true democracy, for the majority race to be oppressed by a minority race. A minority race can be oppressed by the majority race, however.

Issue is its not a specific minority race, its all the minorities combined that out number the majority and they are all working together for the first time.

Making the actual majority, a minority