I have read about this, and almost wrote a post about it several years ago, but couldn’t get all the facts together to suit me. A man that I follow on X published a post about it today, and it is so good that I wanted to share it. He is a science teacher, as he explains in his post, but reads a lot about many different subjects, and writes quite eloquently, I believe.
He is:
And this is what he has to say, and he says it better than I ever could.
So I had a student in my class the other day. She is doing post-secondary enrollment and was telling me about her “Black Experience” course. She quoted her textbook, which stated that slavery started in Africa.
I stopped her right there.
Not because I wanted to embarrass her, but because her textbook is flat-out wrong, and somebody needed to say it. See, I am a science teacher, but I also happen to read. A lot. And the actual history of slavery does not start where your college professor told you it did.
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