Please watch this video. It’s produced by a former high school history teacher.

It’s going to make you uncomfortable. It might make you mad. It might make you sad. But if you’re white and you choose not to watch this, I want you to really look deep inside and ask yourself why would you not want to be introduced to the part of American history you don’t learn about in school.

I was unaware of 90% of what is introduced in this video. I’ll give you a hint, you’re never going to use the phrase grandfathered in or grandfather clause again.

If you’re like me and you’ve been trying to wrap your brain around the racial tensions in the US, especially recently, you’ll want to watch this. If you’re concerned about your children learning critical race theory in school, you’ll want to watch this. If you think slavery ended after Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, you’ll want to watch this.

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redredred · M

Fine but a couple of things to keep in mind. The US didn’t invent slavery but was one of the early-adopters in the world to end it within our borders. A half-million mostly white people died in the Civil War that ended it.

There are currently more black slaves in Africa than the total who were ever kept in bondage in the US.

Racial tensions have been a political plaything for a long time in this country. Both sides of the political spectrum are guilty of fomenting these tensions. Most people, on an interpersonal level don’t feel these prejudices.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@redredred
Britain slavery abolished: 1833
USA slavery abolished: 1865

From those half milion mostly white people that died in the civil war that ended it, roughtly 260.000 died to maintain slavery. But it's nice that everyone was fighting and dieing for the same thing in your narrative. Makes it sound kinda cute.

Yes, other people did bad things too. That doesn't make the US history any diffrent.

Considering the reality of the Jim Crow laws, the frustrations in the south that play up till this day, and that there are sill people like you that spread the idea that all those death people were fighting for the same thing (not to mention all the "what aboutisms" that spontanously pop up when this toppics come to the surface), make me think that a lot of people still have a really tough time to confront their pass. Even though they never had anything to do with that pass, but for some reason they need it to feel good about themselves.