This is my berenstain bears moment except the explanation is pervasive white supremacyhttps://twitter.com/rembert/status/826798515728826371 …
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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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It was definitely a Founding Fathers talking point (which doesn't make it true, of course).
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yeah, I was taught that too
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I was taught it made slaves need to work less hard and they had more free time
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Ag mechanization would have ended slavery. Just not in the 1860s. All the technology was coming to that point.
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similar to what is happening in today's ag in regards to Mexican laborers being replaced by machines when possible.
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It's been a while since IB History, but I was taught the same thing. That would have been eight years ago in VA.
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Yes, me too. Whitney was white, and the gin all of a sudden made it *really* profitable to grow cotton and therefore use slaves
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Although I don't recall a "slavery would have died out" piece - it was also in use for many other crops before the gin.
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I went to Catholic school. They taught that Whitney invented the cotton gin and that was the end of it. No mention of slavery.
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Sacramento anecdote: Whitney's race was never mentioned, but neither was Juneteenth. School was VERY diverse
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