chakita1
Antiracist (32)
Most Americans are largely uninformed of our nation's history of white supremacy and racial terror (Noelle Hurd). With the recent attention spotlighting the Confederate flag, let's talk about the Civil War.
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Hurd goes on to remind us that the Civil War was fought over slavery and one of its offshoots – the convict-lease system – did not end until the 1940s
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The Civil War was fought over the South’s desire to maintain the institution of slavery in order to continue to profit from it. It is not possible to separate the Confederacy from a pro-slavery agenda and curriculums across the nation must be clear about this fact.
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After the end of the Civil War, southern whites sought to keep slavery through other means. Following a brief post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, white southerners created new laws that gave them legal authority to arrest blacks over the most minor offenses, such as not being able to prove they had a job.
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While imprisoned under these laws, Black people were then leased to corporations and farms where they were forced to work without pay under extremely harsh conditions. This “convict leasing” was, as many have argued, slavery by another name and it persisted until the 1940s. Comment "no more whitewashed history" if you want history unwhitewashed.
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#Realtalk #DoTheWork #whiteally #allyship #goodally #keeplearning #ally #antiracism #whitefragility #antiracist #whiteprivilege #reparations #whitewashinghistory #blackhistory365
Antiracist (32)
Most Americans are largely uninformed of our nation's history of white supremacy and racial terror (Noelle Hurd). With the recent attention spotlighting the Confederate flag, let's talk about the Civil War.
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Hurd goes on to remind us that the Civil War was fought over slavery and one of its offshoots – the convict-lease system – did not end until the 1940s
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The Civil War was fought over the South’s desire to maintain the institution of slavery in order to continue to profit from it. It is not possible to separate the Confederacy from a pro-slavery agenda and curriculums across the nation must be clear about this fact.
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After the end of the Civil War, southern whites sought to keep slavery through other means. Following a brief post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, white southerners created new laws that gave them legal authority to arrest blacks over the most minor offenses, such as not being able to prove they had a job.
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While imprisoned under these laws, Black people were then leased to corporations and farms where they were forced to work without pay under extremely harsh conditions. This “convict leasing” was, as many have argued, slavery by another name and it persisted until the 1940s. Comment "no more whitewashed history" if you want history unwhitewashed.
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#Realtalk #DoTheWork #whiteally #allyship #goodally #keeplearning #ally #antiracism #whitefragility #antiracist #whiteprivilege #reparations #whitewashinghistory #blackhistory365