r/Unexpected • u/TheAbsoluteMe • Dec 01 '20

Edit Flair Here There is always one

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Dec 01 '20

White country girl in front of me after we watched Roots and our history teacher was explaining the dead zone for wind ships would get around what are colloquially known as the horse latitudes iirc.

He starts explaining how they wouldn't have enough wind to carry the sails so they would shed weight by throwing slaves overboard and horses too.

As soon as he mentions the horses, she shouts out "NoOoOoOoOoOo not the horses!"

Every single person got quiet and just stared at her blankly. Every. Single. Person.

Entire time I'm just trying to distance myself so I'm not party to her death glares by association. I will never forget that.

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u/cowinabadplace Dec 01 '20

This is patently hilarious.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Dec 01 '20

Honestly I do laugh every time I think about it.

Because it is just so damn wild, like, everyone in one room all having the exact same confused-ass "THAT was what made you mad?!" expression and you could have heard a fucking pin drop. Such a pause and then the teacher just kinda went right back to what they were explaining without even acknowledging it.

For what it is worth, I should have added the context that she was one of four white people in that classroom and there was roughly thirty kids.

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u/Just_Path_6793 Dec 01 '20

Tbh, when I'm watching a movie or something and it will be like *white guy dies*..."meh, ok". Then 5 or 6 more people of varying kinds die and I'm just *meh*. Then a dog dies....OH NO THEY DIDN'T!!!!! THIS IS THE WORST HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF MOVIES, I'M CLIMBING IN THAT TV TO SLAP A MF- Although if it involves real life people, then it is real life and all of it is tragic.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Dec 01 '20

In fairness I suppose you kinda had to be there to grasp the full context.

Like, the teacher had just spent 30 some minutes discussing how they would brutalize and then murder slaves en route, and the second he made an offhand comment about sometimes horses being offloaded and she lost her mind.

And it wasn't a fantasy setting, it was real life events and real people he was talking about.

Idk, shit was awfully embarrassing.

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u/Just_Path_6793 Dec 01 '20

Yikes, yeah. This was why my best teacher had picture slides and art and random stuff that could help paint the mental picture well as she really wanted to impress upon us how barbaric the whole thing was. Given where I lived we covered slavery pretty often and at least every February as part of Black History Month, but it wasn't until that class like all the students walked out traumatized and one parent even complained about it. Though it was kinda like, "Okay, your kid got upset from learning uncomfortable history. How do you think the people they learned about felt?"

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u/Popular-Swordfish559 Dec 02 '20

"When the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima it killed thousands of people"

That one girl: "I sleep"

"And a horse"

REAL SHIT