Listening to the 1A on npr, Kathleen Belew is saying...

[TreasonousBastard]

that of all leading nations, the US is the only one that hasn't had a major education after conflict showing our attitudes toward the conflict must change.

My illustration is the very deliberate anti-nazi re-education that Germany underwent after the war. We had no such efforts after we fought a bloody war over slavery and have had well over a hundred years of deliberate racism built into much of our law.

[cilla4progress]

1. Truth

and Reconciliation

[barbaraann]

2. The victors really botched the aftermath of the Civil War, IMHO.

Letting Lee go his merry way, "freeing" the slaves with no support, no re-education, etc. All of those lives lost and very little effort made to achieve peace and justice after the way--so, so, so sad. Just last week I saw a truck with a CONFEDERATE FLAG here on the West Coast.

[Ilsa]

5. The flag should have been outlawed for a century or two, IMO.

Maybe then it would have died out. It's an abomination.

[barbaraann]

6. Yes, indeed.

At least some of the Confederate statues and monuments are finally coming down. Oh, and hopefully all of the military bases named after Confederate heroes get renamed. Better super late than never, I guess.

[brush]

3. Thank you. Good thought-raising post.

You last phrase literally explains why CRT came into existence.

...well over a hundred years of deliberate racism built into much of our law.

[halfulglas]

4. There is so much we were never taught but had to learn on our own.

I'm in my late 70s, my best friend is in her 80s. She's a wonderful person who, although a Republican, lives her Christian faith and would not hurt anyone. She voted for Biden in '20 because of TFG's incompetence on Covid, but we usually don't talk politics, because we don't want to fight. But she was flabbergasted when in discussing building generational wealth (when discussing holding onto her house for her kids) I told her that black people were shut out of most of the post WWII boom because black veterans did not have the same access to the educational and housing benefits, etc. that white veterans had. She said many times "I never heard that, are you sure?" Her brothers had attended college on the GI bill. I tried to tell her that that is one of the things that people refer to when they refer to institutional racism. It's built into the way things work. That feeling that things were fair was an illusion.