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Black Americans, because of slavery, don't know what country in Africa they came from, and that's a very demeaning experience for a child. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's not true at all. In fact, in every discussion I've heard about American history and how it should be taught, people are not opposing the teaching of slavery or the teaching of the Jim Crow period of American history and lynching, and all of that is not being opposed. – Carol Swain	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said. – Kamilah Moore	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The truth of the matter is that what these politicians are doing, they're exploiting really the decency, the decency of the American people, which responded to the situation in this country where racism was much too prevalent and persisted long after the slavery slaves were freed. And America, as a nation stood up, took notice of that and made major major changes, which have opened doors of opportunity throughout the land throughout society. – Ilhan Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Across the globe, more than 25 million people are subjected to human trafficking and slavery. In the United States, it's tens of thousands, when you think about the number of people coming across the border and flooding into our cities, those that we don't even know … even those that have been apprehended. Women and children who are being released and Border Patrol agents … I've reported on this in the past, have said we release them and we don't even know if these are their real families. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We might put Brown Sugar back in. i'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery ? But they're trying to bury it. At the moment I don't want to get into conflicts with all of this sh . – Keith Richards**	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery ? But they're trying to bury it. At the moment I don't want to get into conflicts with all of this sh . – Keith Richards**	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The legacy of slavery is racism. You can’t do what you have to do to make slavery work unless you constitute the enslaved people as less than human. – Nick Draper	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I’ve always found it to be offensive, as a symbol of protecting slavery and the racism that people of color still face today. – Rachel Smucker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Soldiers and militias subjected Tigrayan women and girls to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation and other forms of torture, often using ethnic slurs and death threats, given the context, scale, and gravity of the sexual violence committed against women and girls in Ethiopias Tigray, the violations amount to war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity. – Amnesty International	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This rich history of self-achievement, of accomplishment, of resistance to slavery through acts of self-determination, that’s American history. – Bob Woodson Sr.	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let’s assume they’re right: Slavery is bad, it has a long shadow, we’re still feeling the effects today, how does teaching more of that without extending the school day, without getting reading up to grade [level], help anyone? The answer is it won’t. – Charles Love	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Learning about our history and diving deep in Enslaved, opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. Playing my character really inspired me – he was an author who had a role in the abolition of slavery and even signed the document. – Solomon B Taiwo	added by TalylorDru 2 years ago
How could a teacher possibly discuss slavery, the Holocaust, or the mass shootings at the Walmart in El Paso or at the Sutherland Springs church in my district without giving deference to any one perspective ? – Judith Zaffirini	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have seen for Thomas Greenfield how the original sin of slavery weaved White supremacy into our founding documents and principles. – Thomas Greenfield	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have what can be described as modern-day slavery, human traffickers (as opposed to smugglers) lure unsuspecting migrants with promises of all sorts of opportunity in the U.S., and then hold them hostage once they arrive here with threats of violence against them, or family members back home. Often people who are trafficked are forced to work in the sex trades. – Ira Mehlman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It also mandates that students be taught ‘the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong,’. – Texas Tribune	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Juneteenth should be commemorated as the expression of the realization of the end of slavery in the United States - and I commend those who worked for its passage, i could not vote for this bill, however, because the holiday should not be called 'Juneteenth National Independence Day' but rather, ‘Juneteenth National Emancipation [or Freedom or otherwise] Day.’. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I drive past a Robert E. Lee statue... every day going into Virginia General Assembly knowing I'm their worst nightmare, a Black woman working to eradicate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow that they worked to keep in place. – Jennifer McClellan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine	added by Normando 3 years ago
People are really starting to understand the legacy of slavery does exist and impact people a great deal, it's a moral and practical imperative for Congress to embark on the repair process for Black people. It can't continue to stall any longer because the consequences continue to be compounded and the injuries worsened over time. – Dreisen Heath	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is the first of its kind case that recognizes modern-day slavery involving agriculture in Ecuador. – Alejandra Zambrano	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'. – Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948	added by Normando 3 years ago

Black Americans, because of slavery, don't know what country in Africa they came from, and that's a very demeaning experience for a child.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's not true at all. In fact, in every discussion I've heard about American history and how it should be taught, people are not opposing the teaching of slavery or the teaching of the Jim Crow period of American history and lynching, and all of that is not being opposed.

– Carol Swain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said.

– Kamilah Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The truth of the matter is that what these politicians are doing, they're exploiting really the decency, the decency of the American people, which responded to the situation in this country where racism was much too prevalent and persisted long after the slavery slaves were freed. And America, as a nation stood up, took notice of that and made major major changes, which have opened doors of opportunity throughout the land throughout society.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Across the globe, more than 25 million people are subjected to human trafficking and slavery. In the United States, it's tens of thousands, when you think about the number of people coming across the border and flooding into our cities, those that we don't even know … even those that have been apprehended. Women and children who are being released and Border Patrol agents … I've reported on this in the past, have said we release them and we don't even know if these are their real families.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We might put Brown Sugar back in. i'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery ? But they're trying to bury it. At the moment I don't want to get into conflicts with all of this sh **.

– Keith Richards

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery ? But they're trying to bury it. At the moment I don't want to get into conflicts with all of this sh **.

– Keith Richards

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The legacy of slavery is racism. You can’t do what you have to do to make slavery work unless you constitute the enslaved people as less than human.

– Nick Draper

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I’ve always found it to be offensive, as a symbol of protecting slavery and the racism that people of color still face today.

– Rachel Smucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Soldiers and militias subjected Tigrayan women and girls to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation and other forms of torture, often using ethnic slurs and death threats, given the context, scale, and gravity of the sexual violence committed against women and girls in Ethiopias Tigray, the violations amount to war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity.

– Amnesty International

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This rich history of self-achievement, of accomplishment, of resistance to slavery through acts of self-determination, that’s American history.

– Bob Woodson Sr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let’s assume they’re right: Slavery is bad, it has a long shadow, we’re still feeling the effects today, how does teaching more of that without extending the school day, without getting reading up to grade [level], help anyone? The answer is it won’t.

– Charles Love

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Learning about our history and diving deep in Enslaved, opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. Playing my character really inspired me – he was an author who had a role in the abolition of slavery and even signed the document.

– Solomon B Taiwo

added by TalylorDru
2 years ago

How could a teacher possibly discuss slavery, the Holocaust, or the mass shootings at the Walmart in El Paso or at the Sutherland Springs church in my district without giving deference to any one perspective ?

– Judith Zaffirini

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have seen for Thomas Greenfield how the original sin of slavery weaved White supremacy into our founding documents and principles.

– Thomas Greenfield

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have what can be described as modern-day slavery, human traffickers (as opposed to smugglers) lure unsuspecting migrants with promises of all sorts of opportunity in the U.S., and then hold them hostage once they arrive here with threats of violence against them, or family members back home. Often people who are trafficked are forced to work in the sex trades.

– Ira Mehlman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It also mandates that students be taught ‘the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong,’.

– Texas Tribune

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Juneteenth should be commemorated as the expression of the realization of the end of slavery in the United States - and I commend those who worked for its passage, i could not vote for this bill, however, because the holiday should not be called 'Juneteenth National Independence Day' but rather, ‘Juneteenth National Emancipation [or Freedom or otherwise] Day.’.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I drive past a Robert E. Lee statue... every day going into Virginia General Assembly knowing I'm their worst nightmare, a Black woman working to eradicate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow that they worked to keep in place.

– Jennifer McClellan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

– Thomas Paine

added by Normando
3 years ago

People are really starting to understand the legacy of slavery does exist and impact people a great deal, it's a moral and practical imperative for Congress to embark on the repair process for Black people. It can't continue to stall any longer because the consequences continue to be compounded and the injuries worsened over time.

– Dreisen Heath

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is the first of its kind case that recognizes modern-day slavery involving agriculture in Ecuador.

– Alejandra Zambrano

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.

– Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

added by Normando
3 years ago

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