Kinda weird that folks keep bringing up the Handmaidens Tale and not like...the real history of this country forcibly separating children (/Native/First Nations/African) from their parents for centuries.
So...this tweet really blew up. There is nothing new about the United States Gov forcibly separating children from their parents when this country began with genocide and kidnapping millions of people. Quick story...
Plantation tours CENTERING the enslaved people should be mandatory. Why? Because “plantation life” has been romanticized. The big houses, the dresses, the parties...forget the actual enslaved people. When I was on the @WhitPlantation tour, which primarily focuses on...
...the enslaved people, our tour spoke of “breeding”. What is breeding you ask? The breeding of people. Girls as young as 10 were “bred” and forced to have as many children as possible. Why? Because slaves were currency. Babies were regularly sold. So on one of my tours...
...in which our guide talked about babies being ripped from mother’s arms, a WW pulled the guide aside & said she always thought enslaved folks just fell in love & had children. The guide calmly told her that while enslaved people did fall in love, the business of...
...American slavery really took off when domestic breeding became the rule. You could no longer kidnap Africans so how do you keep slaves coming? Force breed girls as young as 10. Beside breeding, families were regularly separated. Children sold off, never to see their...
...families again. You do not have to a whole lot about slavery to know children were routinely sold off. Hell, Roots & Underground told us that...If you watched. Anyway, violently ripping children out of their mother’s hands IS America. It always has been. Ask yourself...
...why you’ve ignored that. The info is out there. Now what are you going to do, in 2018, with that info because it’s still happening. #AbolishIce
