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27 Oct, 8 tweets, 30 min read

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

#ADOS #CriticalRaceTheory

vox.com/identities/201…

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess "Somewhat typical in this distorted history was A Child’s History of North Carolina, circa 1916, which also focused on slavery’s profitability and erased its violence. In this view, the enslaved people were happy, and Southern slave owners were reluctant masters at best. ....

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess *According to the book, enslaved people “were allowed all the freedom they seemed to want, and were given the privilege of visiting other plantations when they chose to do so. All that was required of them was to be in place when work time came. ...

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@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess Some Northern writers tried their hand at what they believed was a more nuanced approach in revising children’s history books in light of emancipation.

"Take the example of Children’s Stories of American Progress, published in 1886. Northern white writer Henrietta ...

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess ... Christian Wright, known for her popular stories of fairies and magic, described that day in August 1619 as a time when the meadows alongside the James River were “beautiful with summer” — a sight lost on the African captives."

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess The article continues:

"She alternated between seeing through their eyes with being the omniscient narrator viewing them from above."

Read more: How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery vox.com/identities/201…

@ChrisALadd

@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess The Black Conservative Case Against Colorblind Conservativsm

“The message conservatives need to be advancing is that race matters vis-à- vis specific issues.”

blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2016/01/chidik…

#blackconservativemovement
#blackconservatives #CriticalRaceTheory

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