Ya got THAT right blarman!!

Sad. The distortions in the movie Selma are going to adversely impact the history too, since young people no longer get the facts in public education.
Not that I am a fan of LBJ, but that is for different reasons.... http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2...

Also people like like Sharpton stir the pot instead of respecting the message.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/11/2...

Yes, blacks are living on the government plantation

Yes, the speech was superb... the practice, not so much. Results - most black families do not exist anymore. The mothers are married to the State and the fathers provide drugs and sperm. Real education for blacks is abysmal (even worse than the abysmal education for whites) and their future, for the most part, is to be a state supported parasite. So much for a dream...

Ignorance knows no bounds.

but why are they doing everything they can to stay in slavery. with freedom you are supposed to do for yourself after all with slavery you can't. so now that they are free they don't like it so they opt for a slavery state of being.

That pretty much sums it up. It is like the Mark Twain saying about when he was 15 his father was so dumb that he was embarrassed to be around him. Then, when he became 21 he started to wonder how the old man got so smart in only 6 years. The history kids learn in school is what they have to memorize for the quiz on Friday. After the Saturday night dance, it is all forgotten. It takes a while to see that the past is the key to understanding the present and avoiding some terrible mistakes in the future. Actually most that know the names, dates and events never make the full association of cause and effect leading to more of the same.

I ask kids "What's 6 x 9?" and I get roughly the same degree of correct answers. Indeed, the only ones who seem to get it right are the ones who are over 50.

Except that the answers were not random; they were implanted by the un-education system.

The Holocaust was still being questioned and treated as conspiracy till the early seventies. Haven’t a clue why...but it wasn’t common knowledge about what they did to the jews at that time.

So, what I am hearing from you, coaldigger, is that the newspaper simply exposed the ignorance of children that age. I agree with you, that age is still a little naive to be world-news savvy. I'd be a little more worried if they were 18 and answering the same.

Well for one, she is pointing out MLK day was first observed in eighty -six.

There was an MLK day back in the 70's?? Of course he said nothing new in the 70's... he was dead already. Wth, CQ? Martian king day? Lol omg.

Calm down. They're not ignorant; they're just seventh-graders. Frankly, I'm glad their schools didn't waste any time on MLK.

No.

The third person, Melody Mulroney, at least had an idea of what he did is I have a dream speech was superb and he did want peace. She got that right not sure what else you might have missed the at least she understood what the man was about.

I would have thought teens in the 60's would have been more familiar with Hitler...but then again it was about that time that hippiedom was starting to roll out. How quickly we forget.

Sounds about right.

In all fairness, young people, unless the topic particularly interests them, have always had trouble with history. When you are in your teens, all you care about is what is happening now and is likely to happen in the future. I remember double dating with my buddy and two girls probably around 1960 or so. We were going to a WW II movie and we were discussing it. Something the girls said motivated us to ask "Do you know who Adolph Hitler was?" They both agreed that he was the Tsar of Russia and these girls were Honor Society members. I laughed but apparently was not too offensive because I am married to one of those girls today.