I can’t believe I missed this in my initial post, because it’s a pet peeve of mine. I really dislike the term “people of color”. Not only grammatically questionable, but it seems as if the video was trying to be politically correct (which historians should really stop doing). Just like the content of that video.
I may be old-fashioned, but “blacks”, “colored people,” and even “Negro” are just fine imho.
In this post, I really do like your ‘My Suggestions’ for TimeGhost- apparently they needed reminding that history is not malleable and modern politics have no place in it.
I don’t totally, the balance and checks in the 14 points had the goal to prevent another war
Apart from illogicalities it makes for a moving target as politically correct alternatives became politically incorrect. If you go that road any publication runs the risk of cancellation.
History belongs in its historic timeframe people are smart enough to understand that language changed over time, even if they pretend not to.
Thank you for your kind words. Race relations and segregation in the U.S. was and still is a passionate topic for me, partly because of family history (I’m a descendant of slave owners) and also partly because of how the way it’s being taught had been corrupted over the years by ideologues, the ridiculousness of which we still have to deal with and rectify today.
I do have to say though, this video was at least better than the Cold War channel’s video on the Civil Rights Movement, which somehow managed to be even worse than Sparty’s video in that the presenter was more deliberate in his ideological twists.