Times When POC defeated Whites militarily

Four times (I'm sure there are many more) in History When People of Color decisively defeated white or white-led powers or nations on the battlefield:

1) Ethiopia over Italy, Battle of Adwa, March 1st, 1896, the culmination of the First Italo-Ethiopian War

2) The Haitian Revolution overthrowing the French colonial power that had ruled the slavery plantation enterprise, 1791-1804

3) The Battle of Pollilur (the one I just learned about and that prompted this post) Sept. 10, 1780, when the forces of the South Asian (current-day southern India) Kingdom of Mysore defeated the forces of the colonizing British East India Company.

4) Little Bighorn, June 25-26, 1876. 'Nuff said.

When the "creationists" got it right!

I've been teaching college classes on race for almost 10 years, and for most of that time I've been showing some part or other of an excellent video series called Race: the Power of an Illusion. I've always found it ironic that, in one part of the story, we find that in the 19th century a debate raged about "monogenesis" vs. "polygenesis." the monogenesists insisted that, like the account in the Hebrew book of Genesis, that there was one creation, one pair of man (Adam) and woman (Eve) from which all subsequent humans were descended. The polygenesists, on the other hand, argued that, because they (white people) had nothing in common with the inferior Asian and black African and American Indian people of their day (as they saw it), that the book of Genesis must only relate to the origins of white people, and that those other groups must have had their own, separate origins, with no common ancestors shared.

In this case, then, while the reasoning (an unquestioning dependence on scripture as literal truth) was wrong (in my opinion), the religious adherents actually ended up with the accurate conclusion, whereas the other folks, many of them scientists, who started with an unquestioned presupposition based on the racist ideology that white people were superior, and thus justified in oppressing nonwhite peoples, were led to a grossly inaccurate position.

This stands in stark contrast to the debate in the 20th century over Darwin and evolution, which led the religionists to reject the truth, and the adherents of science to get it right.

How about that?!

ETS admins decision looks fishy to me

Check it out:

African American teen girl denies cheating

Does "School Secession" lead to more racial seg?

Here's the link to the Brookings institute research article:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/do-school-secessions-worsen-racial-segregation-its-complicated/

Hey John Kelly: "I See Your True Colors..."

The slur heard 'round the world: "too lazy to get off their asses." "The adult" in the room turns out to be Archie Bunker. I's at about 42 sec. mark on this audio from WP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/kelly-dreamers-who-didnt-sign-up-for-daca-were-too-afraid-or-too-lazy/2018/02/06/01172cf6-0b66-11e8-998c-96deb18cca19_video.html?utm_term=.b2e78dfa9d8f

The first great rock'roll guitarist?

Presenting for your consideration: Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk

RIdiculous statement found on Wikipedia

From the Wikipedia entry on "Carpetbaggers":
"Three groups comprised the Republican Party in the South after the Civil War, and conservative white Southerners referred to two with derogatory terms. "Scalawags" were white Southerners who supported the party, "carpetbaggers" were recent arrivals in the region from the North, and freedmen were freed slaves.

It's so good to be reassured that conservative white Southerners never referred to the freed black former slaves with any derogatory terms.

Oh, and if carpetbagger and scalwag were pejorative terms, why does the rest of the entry (and textbooks today, for that matter) continue to use those terms in matter-of-fact, non-ironic normalizing ways? Biased much?