Uncomfortable History (Luckovich Cartoon)

[groundloop]

[groundloop]

1. Hey, isn't that DeSantis' great grandfather?

[spanone]

2. ...K&R...

[Wounded Bear]

3. K & R...nt

[erronis]

4. More than 150 years and they still teach hate.

Too much inbreeding in the southern whites.

[Stuart G]

5. K & R

[raging moderate]

10. And, shamefully, even among us northern whites.

I am descended from abolitionists on both sides, and we lived in a neighborhood where most of the people were Jewish, so I was shocked when I grew up and found out how much delusional racial hatred existed among my fellow "white" northerners. I put the word "white" in quotation marks because I believe that pretending we are actually "white" is part of the psychosis that generates this silly racism. I think we should have called ourselves "beige" or "pink" or "paleface" something similarly closer to the truth.

[niyad]

6. KNR

[cab67]

7. Interesting (and powerful) amalgam of two antique illustrations of the slave trade

You can see one of them here:

https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-the-great-slave-auction/


and the other one here:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-usa-a-slave-auction-antique-print-c1880-103241074.html

[erronis]

8. Thank you very much for these. Frances Anne Kemble's Journal would be a fascinating read.

And the plight of Jeffrey and Dorcas - so much cruelty and misery.

[cab67]

9. you know where I first saw one of them?

My high school US history textbook back in the 1980's.

It didn't say much about certain past events (e.g. the Tulsa massacre), but neither did it shy away from the link between race and US history. And it discussed it without making me feel guilty about it. It certainly acknowledged the wrongness of it, but in a way that left me determined to make sure it didn't happen again - not ashamed for my whiteness.

I'd like to think mine was a more or less mainstream public high school at the time, at least in the Northeast. It's sad to see so much of this suddenly become controversial.