@lauren Dental services too, if you had any pesky gold in your mouth!

Oh wow though, I saw this earlier today and started texting my friends that are still in teaching. It is absolutely wild and this just makes it bitter sweet that I left teaching last year. I was a history teacher in NC and went through a lot of the CRT nonsense, but always did my best to tell the students the truth about slavery, Jim Crow and how it still systemically applies to us today. It's incredibly important to be able to relate to history for it to be impactful for the kids.

So many people, at least used to, believed that all of that mistreatment of African Americans ended after emancipation. Blind to the reality that there is still a fight for all of the same issues that they faced in the post-bellum South. It's is sad but this reminds me of something that W.E. B. Du Bois wrote, that I used to share with students: "There was one thing that the white south feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge and efficiency."

"Race and Reunion" by David Blight, "Trouble in Mind" by Leon Litwack, "At the Dark End of the Street" by Danielle McGuire provide a lot insight into this topic and why we are still here. "Race and Reunion" is very interesting and broadly covers America's collective memory of the Civil War and how Reconstruction was handled in the country. "Trouble in Mind" is one of my favorites and examines the Jim Crow years in America and the distinct black experience in America...along with how hard the South fought to keep them in a position of oppression. "At the Dark End of the Street" is a harrowing examination of rape and sexualized violence that persisted through the Civil Rights Movement and even became a large part of black women's fight during the CRM.

Sorry for the rant...this just really pisses me off. I thought we were at a point where we would stop white washing history so that little white Timmy doesn't have to feel any kind of way because of how blacks have been treated in this country since they were forcefully brought here. I guess I was wrong...and the events that happened during Trump's presidency gave these people a shiny new podium to spew their bigotry from.

First console was an NES! First games I remember playing were Ghostbusters and the TMNT arcade game. First time I fell in love with a video game...FF7. I'm excited for Rebirth to come out some day lol

This guy came from Reddit, it's in their post history anyways.