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I remember being taught about slavery in high school very vividly because it had such a strong and negative impact on my desire to learn. In middle school, I had been a high achiever and loved learning. I am sure that my middle school history teacher taught about slavery but he was such a proud, deep-voiced and majestic black man that my spirit had not been crushed but rather watered in his class. However, in high school, the topic of slavery and the pictures and words in the textbook seemed to reduce African Americans and Africans to citizens of a dark pit; enslaved, impoverished, and underachieving. Because I’d never had the shock of such pictures and words in the bosom of a safe black classroom (or safe and understanding white), everything was a horrendous stab in my gut. The high school teacher, by the way, was actually a wonderful person but she was insensitive and so was the textbook which painted a picture exactly how many white publishers and writers felt about blacks. All of that said…Juneteenth seems to an amazing way guide a child to a healthy, complete and truthful handle on American slavery and slavery as a whole.
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