We need to start talking more about what’s at stake if conservatives succeed in their attempts at historical erasure, like with the AP course in Arkansas.
Because they don’t see the racist, slave-holding south as a past entity separate from their current reality.
If the federal government weren’t stopping them, they’d re-enslave people today. In fact, they have via the prison system. So they don’t want anyone closely examining it, hence banning or slowing the subject in schools if they’re able.
Because they don’t see the racist, slave-holding south as a past entity separate from their current reality.
If the federal government weren’t stopping them, they’d re-enslave people today. In fact, they have via the prison system. So they don’t want anyone closely examining it, hence banning or slowing the subject in schools if they’re able.