Apparently Spicer doesn't know who Frederick Douglass was either

[Recursion]

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This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need Black History Month...

[gademocrat7]

1. Incompetent deplorable.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Cripes, how do you even make it through high school

without learning at least something about Frederick Douglass?

[underpants]

6. That was a clear didn't-study-let's-kill-time answer

Now, ask him about some Dippin' Dots and he's off to the races.

[blm]

8. heheh..and THIS is why I love you.

(( ))

[underpants]

9. :-)

[Beaverhausen]

3. Can't decide if I should laugh or cry.

[Angry Dragon]

4. he never said a word that made any sense

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. how about a complete sentence??????????

Link to tweet

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. Forget high school--has he heard of GOOGLE? Cripes.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. There was more...

SS: "...and Dr Martin Luther King will be meeting with the President on... Friday? Can someone get me that info? Dr King will be remembered for this meeting."


ZOMBIES!!!!

[underpants]

10. Right after Frederick Douglass comes by

He's done an amazing job


"I think he wants to highlight the contributions he has made," Spicer said

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Here in Ala. we we keeping hearing about some guy name of G.W. Carver

who is doing promising things up in Tuscaloosa.

[underpants]

18. Heard about that. He can get a lot done in one night

[neeksgeek]

11. Propaganda Spice probably just wasn't paying attention when Frederick Douglass was mentioned

(Never mind reading the chapter.)

Totally anecdotal, of course... but in the five years I've been teaching college, I've seen a fair number of students (of all ages), otherwise intelligent and reasonably educated (at least on paper), have an ingrained idea that much of what is taught in schools is, by default, propaganda or useless trivia. At any rate they have an auto-reject on anything that doesn't fit their narrow ideas. And this is not limited to right-wingers, but they are usually the hardest to reach.

Anyway, they don't take that information seriously. Now, I teach graphic arts, so this doesn't come up a lot in my classes (usually). But there's still an attitude of "Why do we have to learn this?" whenever anything historical is mentioned.

This sounds exactly like the sort of non-answer I get when I hit my students with a pop-quiz on, say, the history and development of photography.

Q: "What was Henry Fox Talbot's major contribution to photography?"

A: "Henry Fox Talbot made many contributions to photography."

(shakes head sadly)

[BuddyCa]

12. he needs to watch Fox and Friends

they teached us good about the famous Lincoln-Douglass debates.

[MFM008]

13. repukes dont do history

or science.

[Angry Dragon]

16. idiots

[Schema Thing]

14. LOL, a "I don't know specifically, no" could've gone a long way right there.

[Bob Loblaw]

19. I don't know who asked the question

but I suspect it was someone who knew Spicer didn't know who Frederick Douglass was. Probably won a drink from one of the other reporters there for his effort.

[George II]

20. .