Presentations Review

These presentations showed me that not only black people have been oppressed throughout history. Other ethnicities have had it bad, such as Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Most groups had similar events across the various histories. For instance, nearly all groups included the event where slavery was illegal. In hindsight this wasn't the most important event in African-American history. Even though slavery was illegal, slavery continued for several more years afterwards. Although we had similar ideas and events each group had a different perspective on the history. These perspectives lead to the various themes the groups came up with. One thing we all learned is the that history is told from the white man's point of view. We don't learn about African-American, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American history simply because White people have not lived it. Instead we are forced to learn everything about European history and nothing about our own.