Granderson: Texas keeps trying to make slavery sound less slaveryish

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/granderson-texas-keeps-trying-to-make-slavery-sound-less-slaveryish/ar-AAZjeC3?li=BBnb7Kz

Toth’s assumption is white children will be prone to identify more with the white enslavers and enablers than with the white abolitionists who risked their lives fighting to free those held captive. It’s quite a disheartening view of future generations.

Pick any era — from the Civil War to Reconstruction to the civil rights movement to whatever the hell we’re living through today — and with each turn of history’s page there are countless examples of white people fighting systemic racism. Heroes worthy of honoring and remembering in the history we teach our children.

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Yeah, it's about "saving face" for the white/male dominated society.

But there's a little more to this that lies beneath: keeping the next generation ignorant of history gives the white/male power structure the chance to remain in power.

Those who remain ignorant to history are doomed to repeat it.