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We need to teach more about slavery period. It was a part of history and yet I’m still learning about what every straight white male over 25 did with his money grubbing hands instead of something OTHER than industry after industry
It gets old, you can teach whatever the hell you want but I think EVERYONE gets the idea. The Industrial age existed, can we move on? US history isn’t just white men
Last time I asked Americans, slavery was kind of a big deal in their history curriculums and society, so you’re either a terrible student, or you go to a terrible school.
People who say this probably also think that white people sailed to Africa to abduct black people with nets instead of, you know, trading guns for pre-enslaved populaces.
What’s with regressives and thinking they were the first people in the history of ever to stop and go “wait a minute, racism is actually bad”?
Well, they tend to be historically illiterate.
A rare few might rise to the level of historically dyslexic, like medieval POC.
>People who say this probably also think that white people sailed to Africa to abduct black people with nets instead of, you know, trading guns for pre-enslaved populaces.
I learned that in my 20s. From a Carl Hiassen novel. Keep in mind, I’m from a black majority country.
Also who the fuck is saying it wasn’t a choice to own slaves?? Like for real, I have never once heard someone trying to excuse owning slaves
It wasn’t even that common. I think the estimates are somewhere south of 2% of white people.
I think they mistake people pointing out, “Southern States produced damn near 75% of the world’s cotton at the time, which was produced by slaves, and economically it was a big thing for them,” with, “It was just their way of life, no harm really done!”
When those obviously aren’t the same things. Historical looks at slavery in America both highlight its atrocities and take an in depth look into how it came about, why it stayed in place as a system for so long, and what affects it had.
There’s literally nothing wrong with looking at slavery’s impact on everything, not just the slaves.
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