In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.
It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.
Not that complicated.
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*Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?*
Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because 👉the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start👈, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:
#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..
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...two and a half decades leading up to the end of #WWII, in #Germany.
As #MathewCooke rightly argues, #Reconstruction, the #NewDeal, and the #CivilRights as well as the #BLM movements did not resolve these conflicts and injustices, which have indeed resulted in #SystemicRacism and a inequality of living standards and chances in life for these groups.
The vilification of #CRT and the structured assault on #US #schoolboards led by...
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...the well-funded, organized, and connected #WomenOfLiberty, as well as the prohibition of books and the defending of public #libraries works to turn back the clock for #US society to at least the time prior to the #CivilRights movement.
Instead of *at least* creating a compensation fund as the #British did in #Canada to compensate #FirstAmericans there, the #PoC and #NativeAmericans or their...
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...descendants were never truly compensated by the #US gov.
Instead, the tides are turning very much against the #PoC, #NativeAmericans, #Jews, the #LGBTQIA+ community, and #women.
(The same is true to a lesser degree for #Latinos and #AsianAmericans.
The ugly beast of the #WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) movement, rears its ugly head again, like in the 1930's-1940's, even in name, as #AmericaFirst: #Christofascism.
Ever since #Jan6, and also in particular since...
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...the onslaught on #CivilRights legislation kicked off by overturning #RoeVsWade in the summer of 2023, has become undeniably so, foremost in #RedStates.
While teaching true history is undeniable quintessential to avoid a renewed breaking apart of the #US, I am afraid that the nation is as far away from this idea as it was during #WWII before the grand-jury indictments of 24 #US Congressmen for #SeditiousConspiracy, among
other crimes.
The fact that this #fascist history is almost...
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...forgotten even among PhD scholars of #history, shows how effective the heirs to the #AmericaFirst movement have been in eradicating the collective memory of these terrifying events in #US history.
(I can only very much recommended the compellingly-told and well-researched #podcast mini-series, #Ultra, by #RachelMaddow to catch up on this:)
https://i.sonnet.fm/fXPSM5yTVfWTbA727
(The only shortfall of #Cooke's #podcast episode, #SlaverNation, on the other hand, is that he gives...
@Annaeus @HistoPol The South was ready to pack up & go home at the Constitutional Convention, causing its failure. They demanded and got such things as equal representation of states in the Senate.
How would history have been different if the South had demanded an explicit exit clause in the Constitution?
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