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Claim: The most significant learning to me was how the American education system doesn't tell the full history about slavery and the founding fathers.

Evidence: the videos

Reasoning: This matters because probably most of Black Americans don't know about the fully history behind slavery and the schooling system fails to educate about it.

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Claim: The significant thing I learned is how till this day, racism still exists.
Evidence: White people are still seen as a higher class than black people and people still stereotype black people.
Reasoning: This matters because it shows how darker people get less privileges than white people, it's crazy how racism has been going on for years now.

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The most significant/meaningful thing I learned was that presidents weren't always as they seemed. For example, Thomas Jefferson had "offered to free his slave mistress children as long as they stayed together". Another example is that George Washington sent the slaves who fought in the war back to the fields to go back into slavery. This is important because it shows that basically being the president was just a cover-up for most of the presidents and their wrong doings/ways

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The most significant thing I learned was that without the help of the slaves our country would look different.
Nikole Hannah Jones says, ¨Our country wouldn´t exist without black people¨
For black people to help build, die and fight for this country that get no return except injustice. Will teaching more African studies in schools help understand us students more on the significance on what African Americans brought to the country.

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Both of these videos bring up the fact that a lot of Black history is lost and forgotten, due to the lack of representation, the actual understanding of Black history, and the unspoken stories that underline the success of America. In the first video, Smith brings up that before we, "remember Jefferson's genius" we should acknowledge the enslaved people who built his library. The second video also mentions that Black and white people are not aware of what happened in the past, so much so that when they read the project, they were shocked by what they learned. I feel like this aggressively shows how ignorant people have become to enslaved Black peoples past, and this is mainly because it isn't being brought up in textbooks, isn't being taught in schools, which is clear because as Nikole Hannah-Jones stated, people were so poorly taught about the institution of slavery, that they were shocked about the newfound information they learned through The 1619 project.

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The most significant and meaningful thing I learned about today was The U,S schooling.There is a lot of background details in schools that I didn't know,such as the districts having private meetings to discuss school rules through the district and also the teachers getting paid differenty based on their degree's.It is important to know about this because we are in school and we need to know what is going on and be aware of updates in our schooling

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C:The most significant learning to me today was the U.S  schooling system is not going in depth with the African American history.
E:sources from both of the videos.
R:The U.S education system might not us knowing how bad slavery was and if everyone knew how bad it was it would cause a lot of problems.

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The most significant and meaningful that i learned was how our biggest idols who we have statues of could be capable of doing so many bad things, and how when declaring independence could of started a new country based of actual equality and not hate.

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The most significant things i learned about how we as a society don't take responsibility for what we did to African Americans and what we still do.
Americans have a hard time accepting what they did to African Americans and how it still effects them till this day. Americans refuse to accepts that a lot of famous people back then were really terrible people.
This goes to show how we are in denial about the race that America has kept putting down so we ignore the true disgusting facts of history.

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Claim: The most significant learning to me today was the fact that there are many ridiculous facts about the U.S that we are not being taught and probably because of its dark history.
Evidence: "If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the Plantation. Essay by Matthew Desmond
Reasoning: One way to be mad with the government

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The most meaningful thing i learned was that there were presidents who sent their soldiers from the war to the become slaves or they lied about freeing others if one did what they said.

I feel this is important because Clint smith makes the statement say "George Washington how many soldiers did you send from the battle field to a cotton field."

This is very powerful because even the person the community trusted took their own African American soldiers and put them through slavery

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The most meaningful I learned is when

Nikole Hannah-Jones says that "Our country wouldn't exists without black people." For example if slavery never happened, America would look different. Also Ms. Jones pointed out that "fighting to make our country a Democracy. This is important because black people were forced to work and black people were also responsible for building America by also fighting for this country.

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Claim: The most significant learning to me today was...
Evidence: For example (refer to 1 to 2 sources from today)....
Reasoning: This matters/Others should know about this because...

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What I find to be the most meaningful thing is that a lot of people in America chose to ignore the history of African Americans and slavery by doing things such as not talking about it and teaching it in depth in our schools. Part of the reason being that America is afraid to say it has made mistakes.

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The most significant and meaningful learning to me is that its crazy to think that slavery and mistreatment has gone on for around 300 years. I think that this is absolutely crazy because I never put it into perspective that African Americans were being treated terribly for this long. In the Clint Smith video he mentioned the presidents, the people leading our country not liking people of color.

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The most significant lesson I learned today was the fact that we are taught a limited perspective on Black History that teaches us that black people have only been given value through slavery. I use the word "value" very loosely because even slaves were not seen as humans. In Clint Smith's video, he mentions "the pages were ripped out of our textbooks" in a metaphorical sense meaning that the history that was being taught is "white-washed" and predominantly teaches the glorified history of the United States. The curriculum is constructed in a way that doesn't educate people on the full extent of the brutality of U.S. history. In relation to Black people, there is not a lot of education on how much they have contributed to this country even aside from slavery. This is a fundamental issue that reveals the obvious flaws within the education system because even the history students are taught holds bias and perpetuates racial prejudice. Students are forced to learn based on half-truths.

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The most interesting learning to me today was how Americas system cant take responsibility for being in the wrong toward African Americans and dehumanizing them.

The system cant admit that if it wasn't for the slaves America wouldn't be what it is today. Also, when they talk about the presidents or historic people they cut out how they were womanizers or racist/hateful towards black people.

Given this fact shows how the system cant take responsibility because things like this did happen and we learn nothing about it.

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Claim: The most significant learning to me today was the brutal history that we never get taught to.
Evidence: For example in the Clint Smith video it mentions certain presidents and founding fathers and how they did not like people of color.
Reasoning: This matters because these guys are taught and talked about to us in school and how great men they were but in reality sure they did good things but at the same time they were not great men.

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Claim: I think the most significant learning to me today was when Clint Smith talked about five of the earliest presidents owning slaves.
Evidence: In the first video, he talked about Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, and Madison owning slaves and how poorly they treated them.
Reasoning: This matters because it shows how five of the most well known figures in US history weren't just what we saw on the surface as founding fathers.

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The most significant thing that stuck out to me was when Clint Smith started talking about Liberia. He said "When you named the country Liberia were you trying to be Ironic". This stood out to me because that is where I'm from.

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Claim:The most important thing I had heard about was Motives of the white colonists.
Evidence:For example they made profits off the slaves they had owned.
Reasoning:This matters because it shows how blacks where treated back then Others should know more about this because it was a huge part of our history, and it shapes the world we all live in today.

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1.The most shocking thing I learned was that our system is not made to talk and teach us about all of those things that did happen and how they try to just keep it in the past and not bring it up.

2. For example Clint smith said something about them not trying to teach us about the history of our country and how they try to hide and and keep the past in the past even though it is a crucial part of our history

3. This matters because it really shows how some people and really our nation are in denial of what happened in the past as bad as it was and they really dont want us to know about what mistakes were made in the past and what significance it has on us today. So it really is surprising how ignorant almost, we are as a country

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Claim: The most significant to me today was all of the hate Ida gets.
Evidence: Many people are scared of history because it's too much for them to handle. They have been giving this amazing women hate because she is black & she speaks on issues that still effect us today.
Reasoning: This matters because it shows how hateful and ignorant people can be. This is why they try to stop our history from being taught in schools. They don't want to look like horrible people when they were & sometimes still are. The more we learn the more we can use it to better our society.

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The most significant learning today for me was that slavery has been going on for 3 centuries. For example in the youtube video "Why we shouldn't..." He states that slavery has been going on for a jaw-dropping 3 sentences. Others should know about this because we get taught to think that all this slavery stuff happened so quickly. Black people were being brutally discriminated against for 3 centuries!