"Privilege is having history rewritten so that you don't have to acknowledge uncomfortable facts"

[StarfishSaver]

It's no accident that:

You learned about Helen Keller instead of W.E.B. DuBois

You learned about the Watts and L.A. Riots, but not Tulsa or Wilmington.

You learned that George Washington’s dentures were made from wood, rather than the teeth from slaves.

You learned about black ghettos, but not about Black Wall Street.

You learned about the New Deal, but not “red lining.”

You learned about Tommie Smith’s fist in the air at the 1968 Olympics, but not that he was sent home the next day and stripped of his medals.

You learned about “black crime,” but white criminals were never lumped together and discussed in terms of their race.

You learned about “states rights” as the cause of the Civil War, but not that slavery was mentioned 80 times in the articles of secession.

Privilege is having history rewritten so that you don’t have to acknowledge uncomfortable facts.

Racism is perpetuated by people who refuse to learn or acknowledge this reality.

You have a choice.
Juneteenth! 🇱🇾

-Author Unknown

[StarfishSaver]

5. This isn't black history. It's American history that was excuses from school curricula because

it showed blacks in a positive light and undercut the myth of white superiority.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for visibility...nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. So many truths ,accomplishments

and great inventions made by black people have done and lived through. Things and events that are ignored by schools,history and a lack of telling it's story . Just tragic and wrong not to teach actual black history to people who need to learn.

[jmg257]

4. Shoot - when I was in grade school, we made a list of the pros and cons of slavery.

It wasn't all one-sided.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. We should start a petition that supports the return of medals to Tommie Smith,

and another medal for Courage.

[unblock]

7. History is more than just individual things that happened. It's selectively edited narratives

Good historical analysis comports well with the primary source material of historical facts, and helps us understand them.

But so much "stuff" happened, it needs to be organized. Some elements are dropped or talked about less, others more. Ideally this helps us understand the most and focus on the more important and relevant elements.

But this editorializing and curating can also serve propaganda purposes, and the emphasis and glorification of the confederacy and their point of view is a prime example. Yes, it's history, but why so much emphasis on that, and so little emphasis on the far longer history of slaves and their perspective?

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. K&R