44. "I think it will take a long time to recognize how close 2017 was to the ..." In response to In response to 28
War,
In a long view historical perspective, it's obvious that segregation, the civil rights movement, Barack Obama and Donald Trump and everything in-between are all a part of the larger story of the transition from a slave nation to a not slave nation.
>as a country as to the relationship between the civil war and >slavery. > >teaching the civil war is a chore because there's so much b.s. >around this idea of it being a fulcrum in american history. >kids don't learn enough about the context before/leading up >to/reconstruction/after. > >i do think a show like this done well helps with eroding that >mythos. the conflict started long before the war and hasn't >ended. > >but then i feel like maybe, especially in 2017, people do need >to believe in the power of moments like the emancipation >proclamation, or juneteenth, or brown v board, or loving, or >the civil rights act. > >we do need a generation of young people right now who believe >that phase changes in regards to race relations are possible. >
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