History (It doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes)

So now that the government have fully woken up to the madness of teaching CRT and the utter corruptive embezzling of Marxist movement BLM they've issued via a national tabloid much needed regulation on what is actually being taught in our schools and laid out a roadmap on how to move forward.

I personally love history, most of my interest over the past 40 years or so has been on 20th century history, but I have spent many a time delving into ancient civilizations, the early attempts at what we call democracy, how wars have blighted humanity throughout it's whole history. Now I won't claim to have studied everything, but I have read (and watched) plenty enough to appreciate that many (if not all) echoes from history are much more complicated than most of us can possibly fathom.

Once again. One of Britain's premier race baiters shouty shola has been flaunting her wares on TV. The usual stuff. Britain is bad, BLM/CRT is amazing we all need to learn from them, buy my book.

Now I don't know what she studied her doctorate in, but I'm pretty sure it's not in history. If we need to look at British history (and it is huge) the last people we should listen to are people like shouty shola.

Not just because she is a dyed in the wool feminist and Marxist who would only like to point out the many shameful episodes of colonialism. But because she doesn't appear to appreciate that things are much more complicated than she could possibly comprehend.

There is only so much space in a school curriculum to dedicate to history which is why shouty is such a big fan of CRT because then you can apply racism to everything and not just history. As I've mentioned before, if you are to take a myopic world view like CRT then why not use something else? Maybe a trumpeting of empire and how brilliant it was, or how having a monarchy is the greatest thing to have within a constitution? Why not use one of those instead? (I'm not advocating this at all)

So with such a small part of the curriculum let's just keep it factual and not waste teachers (and more importantly children's) time on divisive theories.

I went to school in the 70's & 80's. Not one of my history teachers taught me that the empire was a fantastic thing, in fact, the only burning question I was left with regarding empire was "why do these independent countries want to be part of a Commonwealth?"

So how much should we devote to our involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? Well, with our history, we should certainly cover it but let's talk about it fully

1. Who's idea was it

"It wasn't Britain's, slavery has been around for as far back in history as you should go. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was in fact the idea of Portugal. How did they get that idea? From black rulers in Africa who kept slaves (by the millions) The western democracies saw a great way to make money and exploited it.

Also bear in mind they also sold many millions of slaves to Arab countries and the only reason Arab countries don't have a huge black population today is because they would castrate their male slaves so they couldn't reproduce"

2. Was there slavery in Africa before the western democracies arrived

"Yes, a massive amount, millions were kept as slaves, won via wars and used as bartering chips throughout Africa for hundreds of years"

3. But it was just Africans enslaving other Africans though

"No, look up barbary corsairs, Britain's South coast was regularly raided for white slaves and dragged back to Africa, a practise that went on for hundreds of years. Besides, enslaving people of the same colour/continent doesn't elevate you onto some moral high ground.

4. So how did it end?

Britain ended it, when all other parts of the western world was dead against it, and the whole of Africa's ruling class were desperate to keep the money flowing in, Britain stood alone in the fight against slavery and actively went out and put a stop to it at huge financial cost to the British tax payer.

4. But the western powers carved up Africa and ruined the continent, the effects are still happening today.

"Debateable, African nations were warring with each other for hundreds of years before Europeans turned up. When we left, they went back to warring with each other (look up Rwanda genocide to name but one)"

So, a tiny history for you. Trust me, it's a lot more complicated than that (history always is)

But you can bet your life that if shouty shola had her way, that's not the history that she would want to teach (myopic)

Neither would she want anyone to know about Nelson Mandela's shady history, or the fact that Mahatma Ghandi was quite the racist in his time who thought that black people were beneath him and sleeping with under-age girls to test his temptation's were a good idea. And she definitely wouldn't want you to know that Martin Luther King was a philanderer with a very (low) opinion on the value of women.

History does have it's heroes, I won't give you my personal opinion on who mine are, that's for each and every one of us to decide for ourselves.

But what I have learned from history, is that it's full of anti-heroes, at least the ones that are held in such high esteem these days are.

I think that history should be taught using facts, using what we know to be true and provable beyond a reasonable doubt. But for schoolchildren it must be taught without bias, without politics and without teachers indoctrinating children into what their own personal opinion on history is. Children should be taught to use critical thinking based on what we know to be true, not on critical theoretic based on what we feel to be true.

And remember, there are only a certain amount of hours in a school day. Do we want school leavers to be proficient in English, maths and the sciences, or do we want a bunch of barely literate kids able to speak at length about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, but they can't add up?

So one final question, ask yourself this.

Has racism in Britain improved in the last few years or has it got worse?

It's got worse hasn't it? Everybody is a racist these days (unless you're black apparently) Now why has it got worse

Look at our favourite race-baiter of recent times shouty shola and you have your answer. 

If everything is racist, then nothing is racist.