Well let me just say this...
I am certainly not impressed with what you have said. So you are able to spit words out from a book or your "primay documents". As for me and my fellow African American sisters and brothers we live with and endure the pain of what your " oh so glorified Old South" has done to us while you sit and bask in its glory and kodak picture memories. And we certainly don't need "primary documents" to know if this part of our past existed or not. Your remarks about slavery is belittling and yes offensive. You are debating a part of "our" past that is still a part of of present and saying, well other people suffered. What's the big deal? Well that's like saying to a Holocaust victim well other people where burned alive before you were and their skin ripped off of their bodies and used for lamp shades too? What the hell?
As for where I went to school, that is none of your business. Ths information is not going to be found in schools? C'mon now. The truth of slavery and the struggles of African Americans will not be found in a book. But you keep on reading your "primay documents"
You asked me how do I know what I know? Where we there in your "Old South?" Yes we where and we are still there.
Before I go I must respond to your question #3. And I quote,
"Criminals were whipped as well, it wasn't just slaves who felt the sting of a bullwhip or cat o' nine tails. Rape did not occur as often as the liberal media [this includes textbook manufacturers] would like you to think. Rape also means "to seize and carry off by force" [referring to being taken from Africa] and some instances where rape is used uses that meaning and has nothing to do with any sexual connotation". Being raped is being raped. Who cares if it is sexual or not. Besides is the proof that African Americans come in so many different shades not proof enough that an substantial amount of "sexual" rape occured. Or maybe you are saying that because only a few of our great grandparents were raped that's not enough to really matter? And lastly, I am not interested in what liberal media (including textbooks) would like for me to believe. The truth of the Afican American sturggle will not be found in a book kafromTN. I guess you believe that America was founded by Columbus since it was printed in a book even though the Native Americans were here before he got here?
At any rate, the fact that my African ancestors were raped thus producing children of White and African decent (African Americans) is proved soley by our exitence today. That can not be denied or disputed. Just take a look at our faces. We can debate this all day long but I won't. Honestly your post just shows us that you read a lot. Here is a cookie for bringing life back to the thread
Afterall, it was recognition you wanted anyway...