School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the… — Nikole Hannah-Jones
School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.
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White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.
While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened
If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.
