Exactly. I love the way our government whitewashes everything.

Juneteenth is being promoted as “Freedom Day.” But there’s a hitch: nobody was freed on Freedom Day; enslaved people were literally told to go back to their plantations and hope to extract wages from their former enslavers. Don’t come to the army bases or seek help from the government. Slaves were told to proceed quietly,…
The Real History of Juneteenth and the Reason It’s a Federal Holiday
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Toya Qualls-Barnette
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Jun 10, 2024
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Exactly. I love the way our government whitewashes everything. This is the reason I have reservations about celebrating it. We need accuracy more than ever in American history and schools. Our children are gaslit from the beginning.
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