Because Black history is the history of America.
We are witnessing a unique and horrible phenomenon: the total denial of the story of American colonialism and the importance and horrors of the slave trade. The Republican party has made a decision that white children and youth are not to be exposed to any materials that might make them aware that our ancestors were not models of moral perfection- they might feel a twinge of discomfort, or maybe even question the racism that is the Republican daily diet.
When we arrive at the African American Museum, we were transported to the lowest floor where the graphic and terrible cruelty of the Middle Passage, the brutal kidnappings, and the huge death toll that was the definition of the slave trade. In very subtle lettering, the name of each slave ship is written, with the number who were kidnapped, and then the number who survived.
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