We're really swimming in it now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Did we ever stop?

True story from where I live...

We had an older African American couple move in with their grand daughter about a year ago. Most of my neighbors were troubled. Me, I have zero issues. We talk, offered to help kid with her history work, she was having some issues.

You want to know the issues? I sent a tongue lashing to the school district. It wasn't the kid, nope, the material sanitized the African Experience. I call that the Texas effect. Oh never mind California also publishes textbooks.

The sheepish answer, well eight graders aren't ready.

I sent another tongue lashing, having grown in another country and exposed to the Holocaust since Kindergarden, I did not buy the let's protect the kids bullshit.

She wrote a paper referencing actual slave bills of sale for that class, yup, i got them...properly footnoted by Chicago manual of style. She got an A...and me and the school district are not exactly in the best of terms. I don't have kids, but damn it, kids are not ready to read that dead slaves or indentured were thrown off in open sea like yesterday's garbage. Oh she included the white experience of indentured servitude, for "balance." Can't say school liked that much either.