What they want to suppress when they ban CRT

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When republicans in the US in 2022 storm school board meetings and want CRT banned it might be helpful to illustrate what specifically is biggest thing they want banned so their children don't learn it (hint: it isn't slavery).

Here's a question....do America's unusual gun ownership laws intersect with lynchings, home ownership, covenants/red lining and sundown towns?

Answer: Yes.

Here's a a book about some the biggest thing to be suppressed in US history



The author James Loewen illuminates his audience at his book launch at how this form of suppressed history is only recorded in oral history and not in written in his previous book "Lies my teacher told me".

Anyone interested in this book might want to learn the real history of the United States and how it has been suppressed

https://books.google.com.au/books/about ... edir_esc=y

This seems a much more likely (and credible) reason:

Ignoring racism in American history isn't going to make it go away, and it certainly isn't going to make things better. German children are taught the history of their country, including that chapter of Nazism, Hitler, WWII, and the Holocaust. And yet Germans aren't scarred by this. On the contrary, they are better people for facing it. I wish I could say the same about how America is facing up to it's darker history since the Trump years, but I can't.

Back when I used to teach Sunday School, I would tell my students about endemic racism in public school curricula, but only when they asked things like, “Was America founded as a Christian nation or not?” (The obvious answer is, “Not”.) Most were shocked to learn how many lies they had been told about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and the denial of rights to anyone who was not a wealthy, white, land-owning, protestant male.

Some of them went on to join various “Woke” movements and to back the teaching of Critical Race Theory, even if they have to teach it themselves.

it's my understanding that some elements of Jim Crow are taught under the umbrella of "social studies" but they are framed as i) sins of the fathers and ii) limited in scope i.e. only a few bad apples. According to the author Loewen, this is suppressed history and the topic of his first book "Lies my teacher told me".

information in Loewen's groundbreaking book would suggest that an estimate of 10,000 sundown towns would encompass the majority of the American population used their constitutional right to be armed as a deterrent to black and other POC trespassing into areas or communities (Loewen says these are not just towns but suburbs in virtually every northern of the US townsfolk pointed guns at any black who walked into their areas. Sundown towns in practice did not get stopped until 1968 which is within my lifetime).

Loewen's most interesting comment is that as of 2002 (when the book was published) there were 500 books on lynchings but his book was the only publication in the entire US which was on sundown towns. And Loewen says it was suppressed for a reason. In his state of Illinois they would make spectacles of lynchings like a Disney festival with lights and decorations with the main attraction being the hanging of some poor black person with thousands of men, women and children in attendance cheering as the spotlight was shone on the corpse. Photos were circulated and news spread to deliberately scare black people away (keep them in their place).

Loewen makes a connection between lynchings and gun laws as being enabling factors to scare black people out of their homes and out of "white jurisdictions/districts" creating all white towns and suburbs where bells were rung at 6pm to notify black travellers to get out of town. Loewen also breaks the myth this only happened in the south, The largest number of sundown towns were infact in the north.

Loewen's main point is that this is an oral history. The actions of literally millions of white Americans was a breach of the US constitution which forbid forcing American citizens from being allowed to live where they wanted. it was also used to frighten black people from voting. But it all went unrecorded and was invisible which is why it only exists in oral history.

Understanding this research goes a long way to understand why the US has weird gun laws, mass shootings and strangely all white spaces where these things seem to happen.

This is why we must not forget the racist dehumanization of black Americans:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-familys- ... 33877.html