What people aside from the OP are upset?
Some old bag in Texas.
True, the Africans were the only immigrant group who left their homeland for a situation that was worse. Which is what inspired Leopold, King of the Belgians, to correct that.
Have you read the comments on the Facebook post McGraw Hill made about the whole mess? Super ugly, ignorant, and hateful.
There are more than two thousand responses to the Facebook acknowledgement from McGraw-Hill. I only scanned a hundred or so, but I saw no (literally zero) responses that defended the publisher. Almost all of the ones I read expressed some level of outrage, and the ones that didn’t were disdainfully superior or cynically apathetic. All of them assumed some level of malfeasance or incompetence, or else took as a given that the publisher is complicit in a conspiracy to sanitize history for conservative white consumption.
Oh, sure, on Facebook… I thought you meant in this thread.
Heck, on Facebook you can post pictures of kittens and generate negative responses.
Wait, you exploit teh kittehs just for lols!!! You… *you Nazi.
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Thanks for that. Sounds like they talk about slavery in other places, and just this one caption is like 2% vague. So, meh, I guess.
You want that they should re-publish the book because of they used “worker” once in a place where it’s not quite accurate? It says “The Atlantic Slave Trade”, so I don’t think anyone is going to be confused, even if they could have written that better.
How about they print up a sticker with better text to cover the imprecise caption?
Those would be found at this site.
Just teaching the controversy…
Well to be fair, the section 8 welfare class has associated the word “work” with pure evil and intends on avoiding it at any cost.
So there’s that…
Have you ever contributed anything worthwhile to any internet group you’ve infested?
Please tell me you’re not equating opinions on the pit section of a message board with the word ‘worthwhile’.
Although sad, that’s kinda funny.
Still sad though…
Assuredly, no. He is contrasting opinions in the pit section of a message board, and anywhere else you have excreted them, with the word “worthwhile.”
This is not one of your finer socks, my friend. You can troll better.
They should immediately reprint every book due to their not mentioning the free ocean voyage and free room and board that awaited them.
“Reluctant childhood playmates”
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle,
In them old cotton fields back home;
Sounds so family orientated.
This is the disconnect. To say that use of the word worker with its inherent implication of voluntary labor is “not quite accurate” is part of a larger trend of the dilution of the reality of enslavement and its (ongoing) ramifications. The word “worker” shouldn’t get anywhere near any discussion of enslaved Africans because it shouldn’t be in the thought process of educators talking about the topic, particularly for young children. That it was indicates that the dilution will proceed apace, and only get worse. This isn’t something to shrug over – if you actually care about history (which is the topic allegedly being taught with this book) or accuracy or helping American children understand how the nation in which they live came to exist.