BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down111
arrow-up1645arrow-down1message-squareI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squarewakko@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up106·8 days agoYou were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too. I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·8 days agoIt certainly was shocking to find an active ongoing eugenics program was still active in the 1970’s. The reality of people existing in active oppression by the US government is absolutely not the impression that I got.
minus-squarebeccaboben@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·8 days agoI’m pretty sure Indigenous women are still being sterilized without their knowledge or consent during births or other medical procedures in parts of the US and Canada.
You were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too.
I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.
It certainly was shocking to find an active ongoing eugenics program was still active in the 1970’s.
The reality of people existing in active oppression by the US government is absolutely not the impression that I got.
I’m pretty sure Indigenous women are still being sterilized without their knowledge or consent during births or other medical procedures in parts of the US and Canada.