Teaching todays middle schoolers that former slaves used skills they learned/developed while enslaved to better themselves and their families during reconstruction is disgusting and racist.
But teaching elementary school kids that they can cut their genitals off and mommy and daddy can’t prevent it from happening is progressive.
The world is completely backwards.
The former is really part of the American experience from the african American perspective. The fucking curriculum was developed BY African Americans scholars.
The message is really a good one, despite the horrors of slavery, there were slaves who not only survived but there were slaves that prospered. Some were able to use the skills they acquired not only to purchase their own freedom but the freedom of their loved ones and family members. There were skilled horse trainers, blacksmiths, seamstresses and furniture makers that did quite well for themselves both before the end of slavery and after.
But that message runs counter to the victimhood message that Rats like to push so they attack it despite the fact that it's 100% factually accurate.
