#false education

[vizrecon]

[everythingstartsfromsomething]

[everythingstartsfromsomething]

[turboshot49cents]

literally the biggest lie i was ever told

i distinctly remember being told in elementary school that racism/slavery/etc happened because black people just showed up one day and white people were scared because they’d never seen people with dark skin before (”How would you feel if people showed up that were green or purple?”) and so whites were alarmed and oppressed blacks but then once whites learned its just another normal shade of skin and that blacks are still humans everything became okay

i’m so pissed that i was told that   

[alwaysbewoke]

The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika’s schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

Assata Shakur