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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Graylight · 51-55, F

Sadly, this is all true, not "CRT indoctrination." I've read historians who called the Reconstruction as violent and racist a time and the years of open slavery.

Unfortunately (and with apologies to BohemianBoo, who's dead wrong on this), there's no agenda on anyone's part because, put simply, this applies to too many peoples and too many collective records to count. Human slavery, while race or class is often used as sorting factors, isn't loyal to any one brand. Feudal lords, military regimes, wealthy land-owners, influential politicians...they all elevate their own status by placing more space between them and the lower levels. Whites and blacks. whites and white, blacks and Latinos, Asians, adults and children, men and women, humans and the rest of the animal world.

But the information contained here is accurate and lends depth to the simple binary "there's no racism anymore 'cuz there are no slaves" argument. We're a nation that was barely inhabited when several countries made a land grab in the name of better futures. We've always been a giant dog-pile of peoples trying to find space in a big world. I just don't know why we have to keep fighting for the same rights in the same spaces at the same time. It's a big, big place.