why, though?
Too many white Americans would still prefer to be blissfully ignorant of what slavery was.https://newrepublic.com/article/148618/persistence-whitewashing …
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Went to A Jackson's plantation last wknd. The audioguide said "no matter who you were you could be sure of a welcome." A sign way out in a field mentioned that the slaves were worth more than the land and house combined. Only one of those messages is getting to most visitors
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Of course we are because it takes too much effort to learn real history and we want to ignorantly believe all is awesome and everyone has equal opportunity.
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Does anybody else find it strange to call it "memories of slavery." If you did not experience the time it occurred it first hand it's not a memory. It's a learned narrative. I suppose "America" in the abstract can have a "memory of slavery" but anyone born after 1865 cannot.
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100% true. I, like many of my friends that are from the RVA area, was taught the “benevolent slaveholder narrative” implying that some slaveholders were “nice” and “took care of people!”
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We have no memories, we weren't there, but we filter history through our individual intellectual beliefs and moral standards.
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Collective historical memory is a thing, don’t be a pedant.
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It was a little bad, but probably both sides were to blame right?
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My family lost all memory of being Southern. They would admit to Oklahoma, but no further east. Of course, doing the research on Ancestry brought up all that old history, so easily found, yep Confederates through and through.
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