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Originally Posted by maleficent
It's stories like this that make the whole concept of home schooling a very very bad thing. Had these children been exposed to some diversity in their education, instead of their mother's onesidedness, they might be able to form their own opinions on things. Instead, this is the future generation... Lovely...
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I knew when I read it it was going to happen. Though I am not exactly sure what you are inferring here but I will state for the record that home schooling is not the problem here. Yes it is true that she intentionally home schooled her children in order to better control what the learned, specfically dealing with the racist message she spoonfed them from birth. It is every parents right to teach their children their beliefs, even if we disagree with her beliefs here it is her right to teach them it just as much as it is Johhny Christian down the streets right to raise his son on the bible. As you may have guessed I was home schooled because of my moms fear of the secular school system. Keeping them out of school may not be the worst of ideas anyway, its an extreme example but ever see American History X? If not you should, it deals with this exact subject.
Now on the broader subject of racism ingeneral, I just did a lengthy peice of the history of black/white racism in America here
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=96689 so I will be brief. The core of racism (of all races vs all races not just black and white) is simply lack of education. History being the obvious hot button here. On the other forum I mostly talked about why there is black on white racism so I suppose I should touch on white on black racism. It all goes back to Britain. In a nut shell, when one tiny island can lay its flag on every continent but two in the world, well it gets a big head (probably would have claimed them all but there was no one to attack in antartica and damn those spaniards are quick devils) now take those big heads and move them to one of its colonys, America. Now they decided they would become independent from their quite powerfull motherland, fight war, win. Bigger heads abound. Now some of them get slaves and get rich. Heads are now at an all time high. Then of course some D.C. fat cats decide they can't have their slaves anymore. They get pissed, decided they would become independent from their quite powerfull motherland, they lose. Upon this defeat, egos smashed not only by their militaristic but also the fact that they were no forced to release all their slaves, well someone had to pay for this indignigty. Whats left of the confederacy forms the KKK. Throughout the rest of the 1800s and much of the 1900s, the KKK grew in size and power. Many important people, including mayors, city councilmen and sheriffs, where openly members. To sum it up, since I promised you all (but mostly myself) to keep this rant short, though race relations have gotten better since the KKKs heyday, the KKK still exists. As this article pointed out, racism is taught, parent to child. The only cure for racism is education. Hopefully my above rant (like the one on the other post) was not new information for anyone. My point in writing all that was not to educate people about the KKK, because I really hope everyone knows atleast as much as I just said. What I want people to do is this, when reading articles like this, think about the KKK and the civil war and its part in all of this. Don't blame these girls for being evil people, they are not. They are just victims of society and history. More importantly, don't blame the mother either, she was obviously spoon food it by her dad the same way she is feeding them. Don't blame her dad either, he learned it from somewhere too. The point is, this is not a problem that will be solved through blaming anyone. It is not a sickness of the indvidual, it is a sickness of a society.