Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.
Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.
They’re not wrong. They actually teach that slavery was abolished in the US…
Slavery isn’t abolished. 13th amendment allows it and the result is modern prison system.
It was. The truth is they just rebranded it though. After they abolished it, a lot of the slaves we’re left homeless and jobless. They decided they needed to make vagrancy a crime and imprisoned them all. Guess what the constitution says? Slavery is abolished except for prisoners.
So, it was never abolished. That’s what we need to change in how we teach it