Republicans and their donors are trying to ban African American History in America, in 2023. It also happened from 1909 thru the 1980s.
One: Teach generations of people, Southerners, in this example, to uphold the institution of racism and white supremacy, particularly through public school curriculums. Starting to sound familiar?
Two: Form a group called the Rutherford Committee consisting of the United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, as they did in the early 1900s.
Three: Engrain propaganda into the minds of youth by using textbooks. This sure is starting to sound like what’s happening today.
Four: Create a book like This is Tennessee: A School History by Mary U Rothrock that erases slavery as the cause of the Civil War and defended slavery as necessary to the economy. This is why you have what you have, built on the backs of our black brothers and sisters, through slavery. And that’s just one reason of many, why we need reparations.
Five: To keep this going, you have to ban books from schools. Change the narrative and change the language. Sound familiar? Changing the word slavery to “involuntary relocation“. This is 2023, they wouldn’t be doing this, would they? Yes, republicans sure are. DON’T VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS!
Six: Prefer textbooks that teach made-up things like, our black brothers and sisters were content being second-class citizens. That’s what they taught during that time.
Seven: Form a group outside of school called the Children of the Confederacy to promote this false history to other states.
Eight: Have group leaders make children up to 18 recite call-and-response “truths” from the confederate catechism.
Nine: Reward the children who could recite long passages of the false rhetoric they were teaching. As a reward, teach them the song “Dixie“. You know, where part of the lyric is, “Where cotton’s king and men are chattels”. Chattel slavery is the most common form of slavery known to Americans.
Ten: Shape our children’s identity, like the children who grew up with the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Don’t allow them critical thinking skills.
How do we UNBAN the study of African American history?
Just like they did in the 1980s, GET A FEDERAL COURT ORDER TO MAKE IT STOP. Just like the federal court order in Mississippi in the 1980s.