This is my berenstain bears moment except the explanation is pervasive white supremacyhttps://twitter.com/rembert/status/826798515728826371 …
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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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Holy shit.
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It is likely a slave invented the cotton gin, history will always credit Whitney. American Capitalism: a history, Cornell Uni.
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I thought he was just first to successfully patent it.
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