Soup BDC Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 This is something I JUST LEARNED at age twenty, and it took running into a Liberian to learn it. It baffles me how an American highschool history book doesnt go over this: From wikipedia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire. Liberia, which means "Land of the Free", was founded as an independent nation by free-born and formerly enslaved blacks from the United States. Recently it has witnessed two civil wars, the Liberian Civil War (1989–1996), and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003), that have displaced hundreds of thousands and destroyed its economy. Content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOh Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 schools are for indoctrination, not education Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 You ain't knowed that? Yeah, they got them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup BDC Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 I've had pretty hip history teachers, I remember one made an entire day dedicated to going over the balistics evidence in the JFK assasination... why is Liberia never talked about on Black history month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 I learned about Liberia before there was a 'Black History Month'... I recall my teacher also talked about several other 'back to africa' movements from back then and the whole history of the idea up through Huey Newton and the Black Panthers. Also, at one point, one of those 60's radical groups, maybe it was Patty Hearst and the SLA, had hostages or were in a stand-off and they demanded a plane to Liberia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WORDISM45 Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 yeha i only found out that liberia was founded by freed slaves in a recent game of trivial pursuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 i took a writing intensive course on the history of africa. really interesting except for the days when my white professor would let his african friend lecture us on the importance of sorghum. nobody could understand one word the guy said. im not joking. not one word. for a 3 hour class thats alot of looking back and forth at each other with blank expressions. i was the only white guy in the class so i just played like i understood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 i was the only white guy in the class so i just played like i understood. Hahaha, I don't think you meant it quite the same way but, this reminds me of something I read a couple months ago. Alan Quartermain describing a 'lightning fight' between 2 witch doctors. "When we had sat there for a while my curiosity overcame me, and I asked leave of the chief to go down and inspect the arena.He said I might do so at my own risk. I told him that the fire from above would not hurt white men..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardyHarHar Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Liberia's capital is Monrovia, named after President Monroe. Sierra Leon was founded by freed British slaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obvious Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 From what I've read, the blacks of Liberia of "African-American" descent (as strange as it sounds) are the rich ones in power, oppressing the native African blacks. That's the root cause of their two civil wars. Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 different country but related to the africa topic i just watched hotel rwanda, kinda reminded me of the killing fields but i thought it was pretty good. especially showing how useless the un was in doing anything to save the tootsie(sp?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 as long as were talking about different countries... I did my 11th grade Social Studies term report (stand in front of the class) on Djibouti... yeah, for that reason. One thing I learned is that ALL THEY HAVE for industry is a Coca-Cola plant... and the same rail line that goes directly to the plant AND across the rest of the country ALSO has stations and carries civilian cars. The ONLY tactic (back in the 80's) for the rebels was to blow up the tracks because, otherwise, life went on as usual. Not that many people traveled and lots worked at the Coke plant so... blow the lines and nobody goes nowhere and everyone gets layed-off. Seemed like a cyclical thing where Coke and the Govt. would team up to secure the train for like 3 months a year and then everyone ran out of money and they would blow up the tracks and everyone would start saving to fix the tracks and so on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qawee Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 my ex girlfriends mom is from Djibouti. You just opened a whole bunch of old wounds. asshole. kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 asshole. OH, but your ex-girlfriend's mom IS from Mybooty! NO JOKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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