(I grew up in the South until I moved to California at age 8)
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Spelling it out for folks: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which increased profitability of slavery.
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The way the story was EXPLICITLY TAUGHT ME, without the cotton gin, slavery would have eventually died out because of economics.
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(That of course dubiously recasts chattel slavery of black people in America as a purely economic phenomenon)
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So Eli Whitney being black is similar to "well also some Africans were slave traders" aka "black people also complicit in slavery"
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Which, yes, there were African slave traders, but uh.... why are schools teaching children that Eli Whitney was black?
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Also, holy shit https://twitter.com/matsmats94/status/826847117884981248 …
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Oh my god I think I was taught this too
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I blocked it out because clearly that's a fucking horrible thing to teach children
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It's not about intent, it's about false narratives and what people want to believe. Like Irish slavery.https://twitter.com/mletterle/status/826847591988133888 …
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idgi wouldnt white supremacy be like, recasting an important black inventor as being white
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no, because I was also taught that the cotton gin was responsible for the rise of slavery, since it was on its way out
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so this way, slavery is both white and black people's fault
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ah so the south was virtuously phasing out slavery until a dastardly black carpetbagger forced them to do it on a bigger scale
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my 8th grade teacher had us make our own cotton gin at home & then did not discuss or contextualize its implications w/ slavery
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oh my god
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I saw this earlier and am still so confused about this happening.
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were you taught that Whitney was white or black?
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White. Always white.
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I was taught he was black.
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I...I just...
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