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TheDebbieDee

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1. I don't know whether to be happy or sad about the "white-washing" of American History

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed May 31, 2017, 05:45 PM

May 2017

with regard to slavery, "Jim Crow" and segregation (separate but "equal&quot .

On the one hand "white-washing" negates the sacrifices, sometimes with their very own lives, of those devoted to advancing the cause of civil rights in this nation. On the other hand "white-washing" is an indication that the washers realize that the washed events were so horrific and indefensible that they would rather deny they happened rather than try to explain/defend them. Maybe they are even ASHAMED...

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I don't know whether to be happy or sad about the "white-washing" of American History TheDebbieDee May 2017 #1