Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW
MOST AMERICANS DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW
Not only were we not taught the history of black peoples in public schools, neither were we taught the history of the English people, nor of the Christian Church, nor of any our social antecedents, meaningfully, except for those of as modified, state-approved, American-based curricula, post-World War II, as propaganda .
Even this would not have been so bad, had it not dimmed the spirit of learning, nor "dumbed-down" the spirit of self-discovery/inquiry; nor effectively suffocated so many vulnerable children's minds.
Thus, a consequence is people who are not merely predictably ignorant of their cultural, historic, social origins, but who are lacking sufficient drive, interest, curiosity even to want to know about such, nor much of anything else of substance besides, of any category!
Most Americans do not even want to know anything else beyond that vapid educational state-approved propaganda programming that they were fed in between commercials or infomercials. These deficits in most of its people explain American history and Trump!.