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<blockquote data-quote="TravelerKai" data-source="post: 1200332" data-attributes="member: 7561">I actually read Zinn's book in the 90s before I went to college on my own volition. My father owned that book. He had a personal library he started from back in the 70s when he was flirting with Afrocentrism and Civil Rights stuff. Anything from We Wuz Kangz illustration books a Hotep or BN would love to read today to stuff like Zinn's book. That book changed my life because it was so riveting, non-PC, straight fire as you could get. For those times at least anyway. I think that book is one of the few books I read cover to cover as a kid and could not put down. Keep in mind I have ADD-i as a kid at the time, and still managed to read that book nonstop completely. That's how good that book is. When I took history coursework in college I had to read it again for a class. It was still great. That said, we also had plenty other books to read that covered labor etc. I also took courses on British Empire and British history, so I got to learn their side of the same issue. They were worse than we were and that is saying something. I bet they have a much different experience education wise for your average UK student today. The treatment of miners, railroad workers, and other workers in US territories, Republic of Texas, and other professions before and after the Civil War and Reconstruction are eye opening as well. People today are aghast at school shootings, but there was a time where the HBO show Deadwood is a daily occurrence and someone was always getting shot over beefs, labor disputes, strikes, land related claims, etc. People walked over the dead bodies and kept it moving...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TravelerKai, post: 1200332, member: 7561"] I actually read Zinn's book in the 90s before I went to college on my own volition. My father owned that book. He had a personal library he started from back in the 70s when he was flirting with Afrocentrism and Civil Rights stuff. Anything from We Wuz Kangz illustration books a Hotep or BN would love to read today to stuff like Zinn's book. That book changed my life because it was so riveting, non-PC, straight fire as you could get. For those times at least anyway. I think that book is one of the few books I read cover to cover as a kid and could not put down. Keep in mind I have ADD-i as a kid at the time, and still managed to read that book nonstop completely. That's how good that book is. When I took history coursework in college I had to read it again for a class. It was still great. That said, we also had plenty other books to read that covered labor etc. I also took courses on British Empire and British history, so I got to learn their side of the same issue. They were worse than we were and that is saying something. I bet they have a much different experience education wise for your average UK student today. The treatment of miners, railroad workers, and other workers in US territories, Republic of Texas, and other professions before and after the Civil War and Reconstruction are eye opening as well. People today are aghast at school shootings, but there was a time where the HBO show Deadwood is a daily occurrence and someone was always getting shot over beefs, labor disputes, strikes, land related claims, etc. People walked over the dead bodies and kept it moving... [/QUOTE]

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