This passive rendering of brutal history ("mistakes were made") enables white folks to recount the past without a shred of self-awareness
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.@tanehisicoates took on this penchant for self-serving ahistorical bullshit last week: http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/the-foolish-historically-illiterate-incredible-response-to-obamas-prayer-breakfast-speech/385246/ …
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Dangerous to read lynching as tragedy that happened to black people w/o also acknowledging it as a terrorist campaign...
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...that white Christians pursued strategically to preserve their absolute dominance over black people.
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A leading white Southern Baptist claimed last week that evils like slavery & Jim Crow faced "overwhelming moral opposition" from Christians
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That claim isn't just laughably wrong, it's dangerous.
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It's a way of reassuring white Christians that there is no need to consider how/why their worldview enabled unspeakable evil.
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And some white folks cling to that self-serving reassurance even as they cite ISIS as proof that Islam is evil to its core.
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We love to view history through a lens that is self-centered but never self-aware.
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Grateful for
@aurabogado, @tanehisicoates, others whose work is a mirror for people who don't want to face history as it really happened2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
@FarberWNC You're too kind putting me anywhere near @tanehisicoates. Thank you!
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@aurabogado Well, I try to be kind when I can. Thank you for pushing back on that lynching article!0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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