When the Puritans arrived. Let's not act like this is new. From making the Indigenous into "savages", importing Africans to treat worse than farm animals, opposing immigration of Catholics (until people like Irish and Italian immigrants became mainstream white), the Chinese Exclusion Act,
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I have been asking these questions myself because we see it happen every single day.😥
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I'm on PST, so I'm just starting the day.
I'm a little rusty.
There is something to be said about teaching truthful History, & not the lies Europeans & white America indoctrinate the world with.
The one who somehow always ate at our table, attended parties, etc. paid for by my parents dirty filthy capitalist money.
This is why I don’t buy into the idea that leftists are same as actual progress believing folk
As a white child growing up in this country, I got the most soft-soap nostalgic garbage version of history imaginable. My mom’s favorite movie was Gone with the Wind. I had to take it upon myself to learn real history, and far too many of us never do.
Oh wait. You're serious? You really think that all of this started in 2016? He never would have been elected if these things weren't the predominant threads in the tapestry of the history of this country. It's been the SOP from the moment the first white person stepped foot on the continent.
the internment of Japanese Americans, the lynching of free Black people, Jim Crow, massacres like Greenwood and Rosewood, the laughter at AIDS deaths, to what's going on in front of us
When will too many Americans stop this shit?