Thanks for digging that up. Glad to hear that Frederick Douglass, who has “really cool hair,” is here to tell us that “our system is wonderful” and we must always work within the system (and don’t be like William Lloyd Garrison, who, when he doesn’t get what he wants, likes to set things on fire).
That’s some creepy open propaganda there. Plus every character in the series has Parkinson’s.
Did that “persuasion” withstand the outcome of Dred Scott?
Leo and Layla is interesting, and, as with the Florida guidelines, looks surprisingly liberal on its own, but it feels unsatisfying. Saying that Britain got its ideas about abolishing slavery from the US sounds good, but the truth is that Britain DID abolish slavery long before the US did, and had its own home-grown reasons for doing so.
edited to add: "William Lloyd Garrison “isn’t really well know”???
Here’s an NPR article that lists the changes kids in Florida will see in school.
Sigh Using children as your political props is irritating and too damned effective. Maybe we should care less about them. /s
And I think that’s a lot of the motivation with this stuff. Sure, there’s racism partially behind it.
But I think a lot of it is the myth of America being “chosen by God” and always being the bestest country in all regards. Therefore, the origin story needs to be 100% heroic and pioneering, it can’t be nuanced, let alone brutal.