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Originally Posted by Niles Crane
The Atlantic slave trade directly effected his country of origin and many many others, unquestionably more so than the trans-Saharan. That's why, if preference is a must, he's being taught about that.
Though i do agree, that all forms and occurrences should be taught. Ideally. But that's not realistic and for every school subject, there's an endless wealth of knowledge which isn't taught.
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I agree that it's not possible to teach every aspect of a subject in depth but my point is that not even a mention seems to be made of the fact that white people also suffered from slavery on a large massive scale. Yes it's important to acknowledge that wrongs have been done but it seems rather odd that our educators should seemingly want to reduce the wider perception of slavery to a white v. black issue. I don't think any group should be excluded from criticism if it's due and the danger of being selective about the facts is that it allows all the blame for a horrific abuse of power to be levelled on one group (in this case white Europeans) which is clearly inaccurate and does nothing to bring communities together.