Friend, sign the petition: We must destroy state-led efforts to ban Black history.
SIGN THE PETITION
I was an adult before I learned of the Black history of Memorial Day, the enslaved people who didn't know they were rightfully free until Juneteenth, or even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks' radical leanings.
The whitewashing of history, presenting only white people as heroes and Black dissenters as meek and lacking agency, is every bit as intentional as forbidding enslaved people to read. An informed and maligned people will rise up, demand more, and buck against the institutions that oppress them.
Luckily, I had educators inside and outside the classroom who gave me supplemental materials to shape my identity as a Black child in America. Now, just after a Black president, increased pressure on the police state from Black people, and the mainstreaming of white supremacy, these materials are being outlawed in schools and libraries. The motive to quell Black dissent and criminalize Black dissenters and their allies could not be clearer, and our call to action could not be more urgent.
Sign the petition: Black history is American history and must not be erased.
SIGN THE PETITION
Keep fighting,
The whitewashing of history, presenting only white people as heroes and Black dissenters as meek and lacking agency, is every bit as intentional as forbidding enslaved people to read. An informed and maligned people will rise up, demand more, and buck against the institutions that oppress them.
Luckily, I had educators inside and outside the classroom who gave me supplemental materials to shape my identity as a Black child in America. Now, just after a Black president, increased pressure on the police state from Black people, and the mainstreaming of white supremacy, these materials are being outlawed in schools and libraries. The motive to quell Black dissent and criminalize Black dissenters and their allies could not be clearer, and our call to action could not be more urgent.
Sign the petition: Black history is American history and must not be erased.
Keep fighting,
Irna Landrum, Daily Kos.
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