If we do not remember our history, we are condemned to repeat it:Robynn Cox and Dania Francis: Improved public School Teaching of Racial Oppression Could Enable U.S. society to Grasp the Roots and Effects of Racial and Economic Inequality https://equitablegrowth.org/improved-public-school-teaching-of-racial-oppression-could-enable-u-s-society-to-grasp-the-roots-and-effects-of-racial-and-economic-inequality/: 'There is a lot more to black history than what our schools showcase during the shortest month of the year. Many Americans don’t ever truly discover the depths of the African American experience in ways that fully convey the harm inflicted upon those enslaved before the Civil War and the generations of blacks who continued to suffer from blatant and pervasive racial discrimination over the next 150-odd years. Public schools tend to gloss over the details of enslavement. And most teachers are not properly equipped to handle discussions of this sordid past in their classrooms or to teach their students about the violent resubjugation of blacks in the South after the Civil War via race riots, lynchings, mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, and segregation—actions that spread across the nation as African Americans embarked on the Great Migration out of the South beginning in the late 19th century and continuing well into the post-WWII era...
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