Things I've Learned From Grading, Part I

I will update my, like, 2 readers on the rest of my academic life in a day or two. For now, I want to share some things I learned while grading today. I will be doing this until Monday, so check back every night for your dose of "What America's Future Knows About the Rest of the World"

"One should take in account such inference since he cannot be biased due to his disposition."

"After the Berlin Conference, many European powers divided up Africa as if they owned it. The Africans did not like this." (i'm shocked.)

"If all of Africa was so upset by the European Scramble why would they sign a form that binds them to a company commissioned by the British? This just shows that some Africans were all for Europe colonizing areas in Africa." (don't you love it when students become apologists for imperialism?)

"The Scramble for Africa seemed short-lived and unable to attain its ultimate goal of dividing up the nations among Europeans." (colonialism didn't work. who knew?)

"White people during the Scramble for Africa had no sense of indecency or justice." (Truth.)

"Several genders, including men, women, and sometimes children would do anything with in there power to fight back against the white people." (children constitute a gender....)

"Obviously the Africans were the least enthused by this hustle for their territory." (out of the mouths of babes, indeed.)

"A useful document that would have came to good use in this is an account of a slave. It would show how the servents of the devil (Europe) felt during this time."

"Multiple of Africans took action into their own hands."

"Islam had invaded Eastern Africa taking many cultures that Africans had followed for many years and thrown them in the trash." (Muslims are never Africans, fyi.)

Also, I learned that Ethiopia was, in fact, not part of Africa, and that Menelik II did not care what happened to the rest of the continent.

Favorite of the day:

"Africa went serious on Germany, which comes to be Europe." (Remind you of anybody?)

More to come, stay tuned.