Olivia Hooker passes at 103

She also was a six year old girl when racists destroyed the African American town of Greenwood OK
 
HOOKER: I remember our mother put us under the table. She took the longest tablecloth she had to cover four children and told us not to say a word. It was a horrifying thing for a little girl that's only 6 years old.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
White men entered that home, took an axe to the piano and then left. In the predominantly African-American middle-class neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, hundreds of people were killed. More than a thousand homes and businesses, including Hooker's father's store, were destroyed.
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HOOKER: I guess the most shocking thing was seeing people, to whom you had never done anything to irritate, who just took it upon themselves to destroy your property because they didn't want you to have those things. And they were teaching you a lesson. Those were all new ideas to me.
 
agreed


she was also a witness to History

a front seat viewer of why separate but equal was ended


racism kills
 
why don't most Americans know this history?


If we taught all our children this history in school racism would disappear


why are we not teaching them this part of our American history?
 
evince said:
so no history involving black Americans being treated horribly should be taught?
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Your "eulogy" thead doesn't talk about what she accomplished...after a difficult childhood....
You just want to start another one of your million racist rants...carry on. this is so you....
 
evince said:
why don't most Americans know this history?


If we taught all our children this history in school racism would disappear


why are we not teaching them this part of our American history?
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When you say "we", you got that right. LWNJs run the public school system. Why AREN'T you teaching this history?
 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-kno...-approves-controversial-textbook-changes/954/





Texas school board approves controversial textbook changes
By Need to Know Editor
May 23, 2010
The Texas State Board of Education adopted controversial new social studies textbook standards Friday, emphasizing the Christian influences of the nation’s founding fathers, highlighting conservative groups and personalities while downplaying liberal ones, and rewriting common terms such as “democratic” to fall more in line with standards the board deemed more conservative.
The news standards, approved 9 to 5 along party lines by the predominantly Republican Christian board, will affect 4.8 million children in the state of Texas over 10 years, and may influence textbooks published in other states, which often adopt Texas guidelines, where a large percentage of textbooks are published.
According to the Associated Press,
In one of the most significant curriculum changes, the board diluted the rationale for the separation of church and state in a high school government class, noting that the words were not in the Constitution and requiring students to compare and contrast the judicial language with the First Amendment’s wording.
The board also required that the U.S. be referred to as a “constitutional republic” rather than a “democratic” one.
 
she was the last known survivor of this monstrous attack by white racists On a black town because the black town was economically kicking their white towns asses
 
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