Yes, the Zulu Kingdom, under King Dingane, betrayed the Boer settlers in 1838 by massacring Piet Retief and his delegation after luring them into Zulu lands and then attacking Boer camps in order to genocide them. This act of betrayal ignited a war known as the Battle of Blood River, where the Boers, using a fortified wagon laager(a fort created with wagons), successfully defended themselves against Zulu attacks, leading to a significant turning point in the conflict for land and control. That the Boers weren't violent colonizers. These Africans literally wanted to genocide white people just for existing in Africa. Now when the British came along, they learned about this. So that might explain why the British were the way they were in South Africa.
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I don’t recall spending any time on Africa at all in school outside of maybe a tiny bit about Egypt and of course that’s where the blacks were.
My remembrance of history class in American school was about like this: colonization, blacks, MLK, slavery, revolutionary war, more blacks, civil war (slavery of course), time for MLK refresher, blacks, little bit about European settlement, blacks, my state history (also mostly about blacks), haven’t talked about MLK in a bit, Hitler, blacks, some more colonization, oh wait blacks, WW2 other than Hitler, time for more MLK, slavery, blacks
I also haven’t been in school for 20 years.
When you say WW2 did you mean to say the Holocaust
That falls under both that and Hitler. I heard about blacks far, far, far more than the holocaust though.
Notice how it was mostly shit that makes white people look bad?
I remember us covering Manifest Destiny in there too at some point, but this largely matches up with what I recall. At least once I got to high school the IB program gave us a class on the horrors of Communism for my senior year. That was a good class.