"These days people spend thousands of dollars to visit the sun-kissed islands of the Caribbean. But in the 1700s you could go there for free, if you were black and you didn't want to go there."
-also Cunk
Upvoted because it’s criticising the un-united shithole of america with satire and also because people need to be made aware of the history of america that conservatives want to hide from you
If you get your public education in the deep south, you'll get a lot of lost-cause revisionist history. Everything from "the civil war really had nothing to do with slavery" to "slaves were actually treated very well".
It’s not so much hiding as glazing over. The fact that anyone would argue that the civil war was about ‘states rights’ should tell you how poorly we recall our history
I’ll never forget reading a textbook in high-school that acknowledged the genocide of the Native Americans before quickly moving on to talk about how stately and wise the people who killed them were
The quote continues with roughly “the north asked the south if they want to live in an America with slavery where other races are exploited for prosperity, or one where they pretend they don’t”
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