I'm so old I Remember when:

[Smoked Brisket]

 

[jxp]

I remember learning about this as well. Have any of you youngsters on here ever even heard of this?

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I remember learning about this as well. Have any of you youngsters on here ever even heard of this?

Yes, it was covered on an episode of The Waltons.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[jxp]

Yes, it was covered on an episode of The Waltons.

So what, if anything, are all y'all being taught about these important events at school.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes, it was covered on an episode of The Waltons.

That was quite a traumatic episode.

 

[Sally PB]

I didn't see that one, but I remember one dealing with hatred of Germans. They took all the German books they could find, and were going to burn them.

A woman picked up one of the books, began reading out loud, in German. Then she read it in English:
"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth...."

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I am 72 years old. I do not believe we were taught in school that Japanese American citizens were rounded up and placed in security camps during WWII for fear that they would rise up and turn against the government.

And now, every form you fill out, the first question you are asked is "are you Hispanic/ not Hispanic?" And nobody seems to find this threatening or sinister? How is this different from Nazi Germany separating its citizens into Jew/ non-Jew?

 

[R2elk]

I am 72 years old. I do not believe we were taught in school that Japanese American citizens were rounded up and placed in security camps during WWII for fear that they would rise up and turn against the government.

It was in our history lessons.

 

[R2elk]

And now, every form you fill out, the first question you are asked is "are you Hispanic/ not Hispanic?" And nobody seems to find this threatening or sinister?

The forms I see also have the option to choose:

I do not wish to answer.