Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E
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The fact that it isn't a federal matter but a state one is precisely why it makes no sense to point to a textbook about Louisiana history - not even US history - as evidence of what kids outside the South are being taught about slavery.
This must be a new development in education. I specifically remember learning about the evils of slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow and more in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
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