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White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative (www.newsweek.com)
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Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you "can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress" during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You should see the CNN segment where a white lady argued with the black host that slavery wasn't a white thing. CNN, not Fox.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Slavery wasn't a white thing. Slavery was an everyone thing. At some point in time pretty much every culture and skin color participated in and benefited from slavery. Reducing slavery to only white owners and black slaves is incredibly incorrect, and teaching slavery like that is absolutely going to brainwash our kids.

    But the big caviat here is that the discussion was specifically about slavery in the United States of America. In the US. It was almost exclusively white people that owned slaves.

    It's not about blaming everything bad on white people. It's about remembering OUR history, and the history of THIS country, is built on racism and white supremacy and we should teach our kids that.

    She is intentionaly arguing in bad faith to lie and misinformation people.

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