Africanize the Founding Fathers

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In an effort to make American History "more inclusive" to black students, I think it would be a good idea to alter the history books and re-present a few of the early American presidents as black men.

With names like Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson, they couldn't have been white, now could they?

The best way would be to use computer-editing to remove the white faces from those official portraits, and add/replace with suitable black faces, but retain the powdered wigs, knee-breeches, etc. of the original portrait, to make it really look like black men were running the show.

This would give underprivileged students a number of role models and all of that......... I am all about editing history to follow the latest PC trends.

Only one problem, okay, actually two:

The founding fathers weren't black, and history is supposed to be about facts. If you're not going to teach actual history, why even bother?

Second, Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. But, I don't know how many school history books will tell you that. There's something really messed up about portraying them as people that they supported being enslaved.

In any case, slave-holding, -trading, and the rest are NOT the exclusive prerogative of Caucasians. Not even in North America.

What a cynical thread. Like, mean cynical.

The cutoff point for "mean cynical" being?

So what is "they will lose because the quarterback is a lush"?

Well, you need to have also one native American, a christian, a mormon, a jew, women (at least half of them to be really fair)... also and for some people: a gay one.
And write "and they lived happily ever after"

History is a Human Science. If you want to rewrite it in another way, everybody will rewrite it the way they want and nobody will know the facts.

Some people want more fairness now. Not only trying to put lies in the past won't solve anything, but it may give those people the idea you want to get rid of their current claims by just changing a few lines in a book.

The main reason these surnames are popular in the African American community was because it was their slave masters surname. Let's take a look at the statistics.

Surname Washington has 163,036 people with that last name, with 89.87% being black, and 5.16% being white.

Surname Jefferson has 51,361 people, with 75,24% being black and 18.72% being white.

Surname Jackson has 666,125 people, with 53.02% being black and 41.93% being white.

While, a commonly racially biased name like "Jones" people may assume belongs to an African American while Jones is actually comprised of 57.69% white, as opposed to only 37.73% black.

Let me say that only a small portion of America is actually black by the percentage% - only about 12.5% of the nation is African American, we have more Hispanics.

Now I can understand racial epitomes in statistics and how proportion's of certain stats reflect disparity in living conditions, poverty, and what have you .. that may cause more racial tensions.. but, I feel we should help the least fortunate in society instead of letting it grow. Global Poverty has Doubled since the 1970's. could this be a reflection showing in America ? I know quite a few educated African American's and they don't hold up to the BET stereotype, although unfortunately many youth black or whites end up viewing negative characters and become influenced by them in negative ways.

Just tell the truth. Half of the founding fathers were able to become founding fathers because made fortunes built on African slave labor, the other half because they made fortunes in industries like shipping and textile manutacturing which were largely based on slavery and the slave trade.

That pretty much "Africanizes" the founding fathers already.

I have it on good authority as well that Jefferson loved the Brown Sugar.

Just saying.

- Russell