also WHO, lesser known figures who get passed over to talk about the Rosa Parks’ MLKs’ and Washington Carvers’

Like Henrietta Lacks

The general failure of reconstruction

Booker T. Washington dropping the ball

The fact that slavery didn’t end in America until after Pearl Harbor

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slavery still hasn’t ended, but yeah I get your point, the last literal chattel slave in america

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the fact that MLK went to speak to striking workers despite death threats and was killed for it. Also the fact that the same liberals who had granted the civil rights reforms called him an uppitty n-word when he called for economic reform

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and what he was starting to say/ call for right before he was murdered

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About racism today and how slavery was not abolished in the US but moved to the Prison Industrial Complex

also just getting rid of whitewashed history would be a big W

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Is there someone I could point to as a sort of poster child?

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Michele Alexander? She wrote the new jim crow

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