The reason I added "male-washing" is because black people have also told the lies described herein about Rosa Parks.
What lie you ask? The lie that's told in schools was this: Rosa Parks was an old woman, sick and tired of being sick and tired. So when she sat down on the bus in a Jim Crow state, she refused to give up her seat for a white person --like she was legally supposed to-- because she was simply too tired to comply.
This was a lie. Rosa Parks was raised by an activist minded grandfather who could pass for white. And she was working for NAACP before that fateful bus ride. Futhermore, she did activist work on the behalf of black women being raped, with impunity, by white men.
Rosa Park's protest on the bus that day were quite deliberate. She, and others before her, refused to get up to make a point about demanding equality.
And black men weren't the ones that created the Montgomery Bus Boycott around her arrest.
It was Jo Ann Robinson and the ???????? that were waiting for such an event so they could stage their pre-planned Montgomery Bus Boycott.
This was a lie. Rosa Parks was raised by an activist minded grandfather who could pass for white. And she was working for NAACP before that fateful bus ride. Futhermore, she did activist work on the behalf of black women being raped, with impunity, by white men.
Rosa Park's protest on the bus that day were quite deliberate. She, and others before her, refused to get up to make a point about demanding equality.
And black men weren't the ones that created the Montgomery Bus Boycott around her arrest.
It was Jo Ann Robinson and the ???????? that were waiting for such an event so they could stage their pre-planned Montgomery Bus Boycott.
These black women already had a plan in place to spread the word to all black folks to not use the buses. They already had a network in place to provide carpools to get black women to work (mostly as maids).
Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson were the opposite of tired. And Martin Luther King was pulled in to be a spokesperson for the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the first day of the protest was a success. With the support of black churches, communication centers for black neighborhoods, the Boycott continued for a full year...despite houses being bombed etc.
But the poor, old Rosa Parks being too tired to stand up and obey the law story is STILL being sold as Black History by white teachers.
Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson were the opposite of tired. And Martin Luther King was pulled in to be a spokesperson for the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the first day of the protest was a success. With the support of black churches, communication centers for black neighborhoods, the Boycott continued for a full year...despite houses being bombed etc.
But the poor, old Rosa Parks being too tired to stand up and obey the law story is STILL being sold as Black History by white teachers.
STILL
And that's why today's white people are so shocked by disruptive and not technically legal protests today. They've whitewashed and male-washed the truth out of our collective history.
White people don't know our collective racial history. Therefore we are repeating it.
Black people protest.
White people scream about law and order in response...all while praising the white-washed versions of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
VIDEO:
The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History | David Ikard
"Should white people care about the whitewashing of black history? Most people will likely answer yes to this question, if only because it sounds politically correct to do so. What will hopefully become clear is that whites have as much to lose by whitewashing black history as their African American peers. David Ikard is a Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests include African American Literature, black feminist criticism, hip-hop culture, black masculinity and whiteness studies.
He is the author/co-author of four books, including "Breaking The Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism" (2007), "Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America" (2012; co-authored with Martell Teasley and winner of the 2013 Best Scholarly Book Award by DISA), "Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America" (2013), and "Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" (2017) "
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