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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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If we honestly taught about white people's role in things like slavery and genocide, then it would interfere with the dissemination of the white supremacist lies that this was all "a long time ago" and that we magically fixed it with the power of love.
Duh, we crushed racism after they...shot...Dr. King. Or something.
No, it was Obama's election against the massive alt-right backlash.
Mmhmm.
Least bad interpretation: they want younger generations to believe black people had as good a time in the US as any other group & from that to blame black people for current position in the socio-economic class hierarchy.
More likely interpretation: they hope to reinstitute chattel slavery, or at least a massive expansion of less intense forms of slavery, don't want as many of the younger generation bothering to resist that & need some to actively support it.