The conversation has begun! Tune in and follow along here as we share some highlights and quotes. #TruthBeTold #TheNeutralGround
https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/1453813936525123589
Under the repressive laws attacking teaching about race, "this kind of documentary can't be shown," says @sandylocks. "And I think it's important to recognize this and understand this." #TruthBeTold #TheNeutralGround
.@gocjhunt discussing the title of his film, The Neutral Ground. No, it's not about some mythical political neutrality. (Reviewers— that's a clear indicator you didn't watch the film!)
"Nothing really gets at [the truth] like getting to show the absurdity," says @sandylocks. "And that is what The Neutral Ground brings." #TheNeutralGround
#TheNeutralGround director @gocjhunt says he wasn't ready for how deep and deliberate the Lost Cause propaganda is. "If you give them long enough, they'll say to your face the slavery was not that bad."
Myths of American exceptionalism can't be told at the same times as stories of Black resistance, says @sandylocks. #TruthBeTold
"Black people have always thought these Confederate monuments were weird!" says @gocjhunt. It's not some new fad. Quoting Frederick Douglass and more. "There's an entire history of resistance to the Lost Cause." #TheNeutralGround
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America was founded on many racial projects, says @sandylocks, like Black enslavement and Native American genocide. These monuments are monuments to those racial projects. #TheNeutralGround #TruthBeTold
woah, that clip showing the role of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Lost Cause myth-making... #TheNeutralGround
Parents need to know that these attacks on truth in education are happening, says @sandylocks. And that it's the same foundations and actors trying to legislate out the right protests and crack down on voting rights. #TruthBeTold
The white supremacist rewriting of history goes far beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction. As AAPF fellow Sam Hoadley-Brill explains, we can think of the mainstream American narrative of the Civil Rights Movement as a "Lost Cause 2.0”
https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1424896974558355459?s=20
To learn more about AAPF’s #TruthBeTold Campaign visit aapf.org/truthbetold
What would it take to make accessible clips of parents saying they want their kids to receive an honest education? asks @gocjhunt. #TruthBeTold #TheNeutralGround
#TheNeutralGround is coming back to free streaming during the month of November at pov.org! Watch and share. @itsnotneutral.
Wonderful closing thought from @gocjhunt: "Go love and support a teacher... History teachers are up against it."
#TruthBeTold #TheNeutralGround
#TruthBeTold #TheNeutralGround
Our public school system is our great experiment in creating multiracial democracy, says @sandylocks in closing. "This is our legacy we're fighting for." And we can't allow disinformation and lies take it away from us. #TruthBeTold
Check out "Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies," the companion volume to the @NMAAHC 's excellent exhibit. Featuring an essay by AAPF's @sandylocks
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