I believe as many children should be taught in their mother tongue for as long as possible, and at least until they are proficient in a second language, but forcing students to learn what they donât want to do is the same as what sparked the Soweto riots in 1976.
The REAL âLone Rangerâ Was An African American Lawman Who Lived With Native American Indians. The real âLone Ranger,â it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story, including his ethnicity.
Sometimes he would get rowdy and the other Indians would call him tonto. This meant wild one. Jewell remembered the word, liked it, and gave the name to the Lone Ranger's Indian companion. The truth is lost in the fog of time... What is the Lone Ranger's real name? This is another question that can be answered in two ways. We know that the Ranger's last name is Reid, because his brother who was killed in the ambush by the Cavendish Gang was named Dan Reid. (This is also the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew, although we do not know what his true first name was.