This is so absent from school history books that I learned about it from the Watchmen television series.
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Literally just learned about it now. After 42 years of ignorance.
Read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn for more fun facts not taught in American schools.
💯 exactly where I learned about it too.
Me 3. I was gobsmacked and angry. American education is lacking.
I walked those streets as a teen in '89 or so. Nothing but stone and concrete outlines of homes and streets and sidewalks. We had a really hard time looking at it, being there, thinking on it, whatever. I can't say what it was like, I don't have words. I can say I still tear up remembering it.
And at the time, we had no idea of the real horrors. We just didn't know.
We don't need more symbolic platitudes, if given another chance the government would do it again today.
White ppl have learned about it now so the government is absolved from fixing it
Probably will next year when Trump wins and has no more reelection to worry about.
Subjugating marginalized communities is 100% bipartisan
Some forms of subjugation are more bipartisan than others.
Fuckin' monsters.