A student only known as “King Jordan” unleashed all the shade on his teacher for peddling the revisionist history commonly taught in schools across America about Columbus’ ties to the U.S. Like King, most of us know good, and well the Italian explorer never stepped foot in America, only the “West Indies.”
King took it a step further, however, as he was unafraid to tell his teacher he knew the real-deal about Columbus and called her out for her mis-education in the most matter-of-fact of ways.
“Today was not a good learning day,” he begins in what appears to be a daily journal. “You said something wrong, and I can’t listen when I hear lies.”
The young student went on state that the only Christoper he and his mama acknowledge is Wallace (the Notorious B.I.G for those who do not know), adding that Columbus didn’t find America, the “Indians did.”
“I want Columbus Day off — but I want you to not teach me lies,” he finished. “My question for the day is how can white people teach Black history?”
To his teacher’s disappointment, King isn’t the only one fed up with the fallacies being taught about Columbus. U.S. schools have a history of teaching children that Columbus indeed discovered America, but in recent years, a handful of cities have taken action to counter the false narrative around the holiday honoring the explorer.
In lieu of Columbus Day, at least nine cities across the country, including Seattle and Minneapolis, now celebrate Indigenous People’s Day to honor the NATIVE residents of America. The trend obviously hasn’t hit King’s city yet.
“King, I’m very disappointed in your journal today,” his teacher writes, to which he cooly responds, “Ok”
