after 200 years, the house finally lives up to its name.

Idk if you seen prageru, basically had a cartoon where Christopher Columbus said how "being slave was better than being dead"

Should not be so negative?

How bout we enslave this fucking nazi turd. Drag his fat fucking ass around, go full mussolini.

I feel like the only way to teach them that slavery is wrong is to enslave them. I will personally volunteer to recreate the whipping scene from Roots for everyone who thinks slavery wasn't so bad. Starting with the orange.

Slavery is negative for a reason.

Whitehouse is not sane and should not be given any credence

Conservative idiots like Trump want to white (heh) wash slavery because they want to bring slavery back. Not just for black people, but of course especially for black people first, but also for all the other poors they think they can exploit to make themselves richer. Somehow they think everyone should be on board with this, and alas probably some subset of idiots will be even after they're already wearing the manacles themselves.

It’s almost as if racism is a core value among American conservatives.

Trump feuding with a history museum. You'd think that would sound the 'fascist' alarm to his supporters, but seems like nothing will.

When I was in middle school, we had to make a list of pros and cons of slavery for classwork. I remember it being homework but I can't see that bullshit flying if the parents knew.

So, teaching the horrors of slavery is woke now? They are just telling on themselves now.

Epstein files

People sang more back then. There were hardly any workers comp claims. And it kept kids off their dang iPhones.

The logic:

400 years of slavery but your great great grand grand kids have been taught 1 or 2 farming skills a piece.

Oh, and we will be generous and only charge half price for those 400 years of your food and lodging.

You owe us really...

museums should start showcasing trumps epstein and russian collusions in thier exhibits.

There we go.

It's amazing how all these dumbasses look exactly the same. I knew exactly what she'd look like even before watching the video.

Y’all know he’s demented as fuck, right?

Bruh

I am so ready to go home and throw it in much trash Mormon mother's face. I hate that she buys into this shit.

You need to take the bad with the good, otherwise you'll never understand how far we've come. We hold on to slavery to remind us what it took, how efforts were not in vain, and to continue work on pushing for the things we believe in. We are here today because of the hardships we have endured yesterday. It's not "white guilt", it's to remind the world that slavery is bad no matter who does it, to teach us what it looks like, and that we all benefit from eliminating slavery, no matter the form it takes.

When we forget those things, we have things like the anti-vacc movement. People who have their own beliefs that fly in the face of reality, who've never had the experiences first hand, and to bend the notion of what is good. It rewrites the legacy of people's efforts, obscures the lessons used to fight, and trivializes the problems of the time. It manipulates both people and purpose and turns it against each.

My own opinion: Nobody feels guilty about slavery. There are only those that feel regret it's not still around.

Black people loved slavery. There. I cut out all the euphemisms and just got us to the end goal to save us some time.

We have to keep drilling in that slavery is bad because there are still so many fucking racists in this country.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

Oh no!! Maybe he should go back in time and prevent the developement of chatel slavery, if he's so worked up about the historical representation of slavery in-general.

That said, chatel slavery seems alive and well in the US Prison system. Maybe some of us really are too distracted by the history to bother fixing things in the present. Mr. Mangione allegedly might have something to say about it. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention at that cookout, back on December 4th.

I thought they were all about facts not caring about their feelings

Is it just me or is whitewashing slavery the first step in reinstituting slavery?

just a reminder that Newsweek is a conspiracy-peddling, right-wing rag that we should not be driving traffic to

You can't understand progress without an understanding of historical reality.

Reminds of the video with the confederate idiot that talks about how his family was so poor and couldn't even afford slaves.

Would no one think of the crackers??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJgTVvEkVg

lol

Jfc. If this administration rewrites anymore history the US is going to just up and disappear. First it's oh slavery wasn't that bad, then its what slaves? We didn't have slaves. Then we go full circle and have slaves again