“We will not stop calling out and fighting back against extremist, so-called leaders who try to prevent our children from learning our true and full history,” the vice president said in Florida.

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    1 year ago

    Honestly, that’s not even all it did. I read through the curriculum and a not insignificant portion of it is focused on discussing slavery elsewhere as if to say “other people did it too!” even though it’s a totally different form of slavery. It doesn’t require that they teach that most other forms were war slaves and they didn’t own their family/children. Chattel slavery was almost purely a European colonialism thing that the US kept performing well past it being “acceptable,” if it ever was. I’m sure it also will never include mentioning why the electoral college is so fucked up, in that it prioritized states over people in order to protect the institution of slavery.