(February 19, 2012 at 8:05 am)Tiberius Wrote: The point Morgan Freeman was making is that there shouldn't be a black history month in the first place, (1) because you're relegating it to a month, and (2) because black history is American history, and if you teach it as something different, it breeds the idea that black people are different. His point at the end is the more important one; if you stop pointing out the differences in people, you stop the ideas of racism in their tracks; there can be no racism if nobody sees or talks about "race" in the way they do today. Why distinguish between a "white" man and a "black" man? They're both men aren't they?
Freeman is entitled to think whatever he likes about teaching history.
Black and jewish history is particularly painful I suggest, hence the opinions that many black and jewish people hold that it is vitally important to teach it, in the hope that slavery/holocausts do not happen again.
I think his point that you find attractive is fallacious. He is saying if you stop talking about racism then it doesn't exist. Utter simplistic nonsense!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
