In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.
It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.
Not that complicated.
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Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?
Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:
#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..
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Compromises surrounding slavery were at the heart of the process that formed the Union. The 2nd Amendment for example enabled states to maintain armed militias to suppress slave revolts and hunt fugitive slaves. The Union was an uneasy alliance kept together by the threat of British power. The alliance unraveled as soon as that threat vanished and deep cultural divides have continued to drive American politics. The Civil Rights movement led to Nixon's Southern Strategy to today's #gop
@Annaeus @HistoPol The South was ready to pack up & go home at the Constitutional Convention, causing its failure. They demanded and got such things as equal representation of states in the Senate.
How would history have been different if the South had demanded an explicit exit clause in the Constitution?