22 y/o Mother kidnaps 2 y/o daughter so she wouldn't learn Black History!!

[lacktheknack]

Why was the dude homeschooling a 2 y/o in the first place? Most kids don't start school till 5 y/o.

They... weren't. It's called "abysmal future planning".

 

[CrazyGirl17]

(Facepalms) Jesus Christ! Just when I think people can't get any stupider... *SIGH* Shit Like this is why I think some people need a licence to be a parent.

EDITED to change a few assumptions.

 

[verdant monkai]

Extreme. But I guess they should have the right as parents to decide how to raise their child. This does seem unnecessary and a bit racist but they should be allowed if they want to.

 

[Easton Dark]

(Facepalms) Jesus Christ! Just when I think people can't get any stupider... while it's good this woman wants her kid to learn black history (even if is 2 years old), but there's doing it the right way... and then there's going too far! *SIGH* Shit Like this is why I think some people need a licence to be a parent.

She doesn't want to teach the kid black history. Quite the opposite.

Though the concept of a reverse situation where a two year old is kidnapped in order to force-feed black history knowledge while the police are beating down the door is pretty funny.

 

[cojo965]

You know, you wouldn't even have needed to specify her being from Florida for us to figure that out. Seriously, why is it always Florida?

I take offence to that, I live there. Of course that incident with the python also happened here, but still.

 

[Ryotknife]

22 y/o whacko Florida ...

I know its wrong, but sadly that underlined section was all that i needed to know. Florida seems to have a higher percentage of crazy than virtually anywhere else in the country, possibly the world.

zombie attack 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack

naked man jumps off roof onto homeowner then masturbates while held at gun point, 2013

http://gawker.com/5978198/naked-florida-man-jumps-off-roof-onto-man-knocks-television-over-empties-vacuum-cleaner-masturbates

Michael Dunn, 2014, killing people over loud music

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/justice/florida-loud-music-murder-trial/

man lights his ex on fire at a gas station and then chases her with a knife , 2012

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video-florida-man-set-fire-gas-station/story?id=16551601

....actually by comparision what she did was tame.

 

[DementedSheep]

Extreme. But I guess they should have the right as parents to decide how to raise their child. This does seem unnecessary and a bit racist but they should be allowed if they want to.

Well the mother kidnapped the kid. The father wasn't in on it and he has a say in the kids education as well. This isn't a case of the parents wanting to omit a kid from a class which while terribly racist shouldn't necessary be illegal.

 

[A-D.]

Its human history, but human history a lot of people continue to pretend never existed. You'd be surprised how many schools in the United States never broach things like:

-How the United States basically ended up stealing half of Mexico's land

Uh i gotta stop you there for a second, but as far as i was aware of it, wasnt it more that the US fought a war against Spain, before mexico was actually independant of it, gained some territory and when mexico later tried taking back said lost land they lost the war and even more territory? How is that "stealing"? Although im not american, that wasnt exactly covered as indepth during history class but thats essentially part of the cliff-notes version.

I mean next you are going to tell me France selling its north american land to the US was equally stealing or something? Especially because the US wasnt allowed by the settlement agreement after the war for independence to actually increase its landsize by more than its current size, the french part they bought was bigger than the USA at the time, which was illegal and could have led to the British declaring the independence of the USA as null and void.

 

[Nathan Josephs]

seriously what is in the water supply in florida? nothing but crazies from there.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Its human history, but human history a lot of people continue to pretend never existed. You'd be surprised how many schools in the United States never broach things like:

-How the United States basically ended up stealing half of Mexico's land

Uh i gotta stop you there for a second, but as far as i was aware of it, wasnt it more that the US fought a war against Spain, before mexico was actually independant of it, gained some territory and when mexico later tried taking back said lost land they lost the war and even more territory? How is that "stealing"? Although im not american, that wasnt exactly covered as indepth during history class but thats essentially part of the cliff-notes version.

I mean next you are going to tell me France selling its north american land to the US was equally stealing or something? Especially because the US wasnt allowed by the settlement agreement after the war for independence to actually increase its landsize by more than its current size, the french part they bought was bigger than the USA at the time, which was illegal and could have led to the British declaring the independence of the USA as null and void.

Short version:

-Americans would like to live in Texas area for X reason
-Americans immigrate to Texas, an area Mexico doesn't particularly care about for the most part
-Texas Americans don't like the Mexican government, and leave (But keep the land). Frequent combat ensues.
-Texas Americans miss the US government. They offer to join the US
-US agrees that this would be righteous
-Mexico responds, as would any nation, trying to get what they think (And I suppose was) is theirs back
-US crushes Mexico like a bug, and force feeds them money to make themselves feel better about land jacking

Its a bit more complicated then that, buts that's the basics.

The acquisition of Mexico was so messed up, people like U. S. Grant would frequently say that the Civil War was our just dessert for what we did to the Mexican government, and many officers came back disgusted by the whole unjust ordeal.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yes, absolutely, Black History Month really isn't much of a solution. However, it's not fair to compare it to a good solution, it needs to be compared to a probable one. And it compares favourably to "don't bother", which seems to be the popular alternative.

How about, you know, discussing "black" history like it is part of actual history? That's the way it's handled in every sane country I know.

Oh sure, in theory, you could. I don't see it happening, though.

In Australia, we have a somewhat similar problem. We are very good at ignoring the historical and outgoing plight of Aboriginal people, it's something society as a whole refuses to discuss in any meaningful way. A lot of Aboriginal communities make the third world look good, with life expectancy lower and suicide rates higher than large parts of Africa. IIRC, Australia is the only first world country to have a problem with trachoma, but this only tends to occur in Aboriginal communities, so nobody cares.

Wider society completely ignores these issues. Every few years you might get the "shocking" revelation of what everyone should have know, and then people cry "someone should do something"...for maybe a week and then forget about it again.

The idea that the history of a part of the population needs to be segregated and have a special month devoted to it, is kind of creepy when you start to think about it, right?

It's not that "part of the population needs to be segregated and have a special month devoted to it", it's that "part of the population is segregated and so needs to have a special month devoted to it, in lieu of a better solution".