This is my berenstain bears moment except the explanation is pervasive white supremacyhttps://twitter.com/rembert/status/826798515728826371 …
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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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for somebody who didn't grow up in the states: what is the significance of Whitney's race?
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which made slavery insanely profitablehttps://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/826845409393799168 …
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to an outsider, the explanation that "it got more profitable therefore we couldn't phase it out" is also pretty crazy.
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the problem with slavery was surely never that it wasn't profitable enough.
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unsurprisingly, in majority-black Trinidad there is none of this apologist bullshit when we are taught our history of slavery.
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I grew up in North Florida and was taught he was white. Never knew this was a thing till today.
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Yeah, I'm from L.A. but spent my grade school years in the South. This is...wow.
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you shoulda stayed in the south we got ice tea and low key segregation

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