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Originally posted by ktsnake
I'm sure that you'd probably win the "how many black people do I know" contest
So some hard facts about folks not knowin' much about history? An article in Newsweek dated 09/15/97 talks about a survey conducted of 159 upper-classmen at Stanford University (yeah the one that costs $100,000 to go to for 4 years) the survey found that "one-third of those surveyed believed that the Enlightenment preceded the Renaissance. Two-thirds could not name the sixteenth-century scholar who first proposed that the earth revolves around the sun; many confused Galileo with Copernicus. Approximately 72 per cent failed to credit Gutenberg with the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century. And the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor eluded a full three-quarters."
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ok, i wasn't going to even respond to this. you're asking specific things in history. there are a lot of people who probably don't know off of the top of their head certain things. asking an african american if they're offended by blackface and asking them what time of the day MLK was shot is two totally different things. they both have to do with racial injustice, but one's a specific incident, the other's an action in which people are still offended by it. regardless if folks know the historical connotations, it's still offensive and to this day, i'll challenge anyone who thinks there is nothing wrong with it to roll into a black cultural center with it on.