The fifth song from Prince’s 1999 album, D.M.S.R., is as much about content as it is about connections and branches on the R&B/ Hip-Hop music family tree. It can be explained in a game I play when I listen to my playlists.
Mar 11, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Here is why we need to teach history properly and not omit the things people like Ron DeSantis don't like. In 2004, I was teaching 5th grade in SC - just for a year. And we got to the section of the history book where we needed to talk about slavery. I just turned 30.
So, while we were going through the text and got to a picture of the enslaved Black folks on a plantation. One of the students who pretty much stayed attached to my hip, a young white girl, raised her hand and said, "my mom grew up on a plantation and she had slaves."
