and not once does he talk about slavery, property, and what the war is really about, what they re really fighting for. other voices? yeah. i noticed there seems to be a common idea that the civil war was totally about slavery. i m gonna disagree with that. the south did want to leave the union, because of slavery, but the issue of the civil war was keeping the south in the union. so slavery isn t like, the entire issue. pushback? comments? we re gonna continue tomorrow. we have class tomorrow. you are a thinker. that is for sure. the wedge is this labor issue, right? i think we re agreed on that. it s just the way of describing it. good job. go, go, go. you re spending a lot of time telling the story of the civil war and reconstruction, in your 8th grade class, why? because i think we have not adequately, you know, understood who we are as a nation. there s so much of this history that has been way too difficult for this country to look at. the reason it s important to
there, it complicates it. it is not a football game. this was real. most history classes we teach that the winners write history. the civil war, the losers try to write history. when we look at southerners, how they try and twist the narrative what happened, i want to put us in their shoes and learn why. if you can teach empathy when it comes to history, it s such a powerful thing for the rest of your lives. all right, boys. in your packet, turn to new perspectives on slavery. what we have here are statistics about slavery. i want you to talk about what s jumps out at you. it says about 1. 1 million southern families owned no slaves. only about a little over 350,000 owned slaves. that s only a fourth or fifth. it s actually pretty crazy statistics. only a handful of people had one or five slaves. it s just probably around the household, which probably would ve been treated pretty well. it depends.
racism, cause we ve moved beyond racism. it s the inferiority that particular people that are not working hard enough. there is a racist idea that is still very prominent within the community of people you consider themselves liberal, even progressive, or even radical. the oppression in theory is feeding the thesis. first, it was slavery making black people into groups. right now, it s poverty. this idea about that racism itself, or discrimination, wasn t just sort of harming people, but it was literally leading to inferior behaviours.
well, it s part of history. you know, where and when is enough? do you feel like slavery was something that was in the past, let s move on? or do you feel like slavery still has an effect today? it s over. and it is part of history, it s part of the past. i don t know any person that owns a slave, or has been a slave. to this day. i think we re gonna make it a major issue, as long as we keep rubbing it in from the standpoint of the minority saying, well, we were slaves and mistreated. i understand that. what the hell you want me to do about it? i m sorry. i wasn t there. i m 50 years old. i wasn t there. and what do you say to historically black universities that say, we re not gonna fly this flag because it s a symbol of slavery? do you think about their point of view? it is a state flag of mississippi. but if they say it actually hurts us, it deeply offends us.
join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. (upbeat music) officers pointed their guns into crowds of young people. it was shocking to me. why are we still in a war in this country over race? slavery, it lasted 200 years. you have to develop a psychology on the part of the white people who were doing this, that involves enormous acts of denial. we haven t even claimed it as the horrific system that it was. she says, slavery is the cause. and so, many white people that we hear say, don t talk to me about slavery. i didn t own slaves. my parents didn t own slaves. the cultural conditioning that began in slavery has