Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument
Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument
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Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument
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We don't need more symbolic platitudes, if given another chance the government would do it again today.
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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.
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Fuckin' monsters.
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This is so absent from school history books that I learned about it from the Watchmen television series.
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.