Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

JPAnalyst OP t1_j9f7xh0 wrote

>Do students in Oregon get taught that their state was founded with the law that Black people were banned from moving to the state?

I haven’t asked them. But if anyone wants to take on the project I’d love to know. I did tabulate responses when someone asked students in Oklahoma about Tulsa. I’ll dig that up and post it in this thread.

4

BigEOD t1_j9f7d5d wrote

Before you get too upset, did you know about 24% of all enlisted military are on welfare programs because the government doesn’t pay them enough?

Wal mart looks More generous than the government many would argue should be regulating this by percentage and pure numbers. And the government takes in way more money than Walmart. It would take over 100 times the annual profits Walmart makes to pay just the defense budget, and they pay people that little.

Source: https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/u-s-army-recommends-food-stamps-for-soldiers-struggling-with-inflation/article_34e15302-3048-11ed-9730-97264b6694d5.html

20

excitato t1_j9f52re wrote

Do students in Oregon get taught that their state was founded with the law that Black people were banned from moving to the state?

The reality is that things like expulsions of Black people and sundown towns were indeed so common that it’s probably better for every US student to learn generally how thorough and widespread the discrimination was, rather than just single incidents.

13

ThePandaRider t1_j9f4rz7 wrote

History gets glossed over constantly. I grew up in Massachusetts and we have a ton of history that wasn't covered at the state or county level. I always thought it was because the textbooks were not written by the state and the curriculum had a lot of American history that was focused at the federal level instead of state specific events.

16