What Is This? Crazy White Woman Day?

October 04, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Look, if it’s gonna be crazy white woman day, I want my turn!  First we have the Attorney General candidate in Arkansas and now this.

Screen Shot 2014-10-04 at 1.28.03 PMA white female Colorado Board of Education member has decided that slavery was … oh, I’ll just let you read it because you won’t believe me.

Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.

Voluntarily?  Holy cow, woman.  So you just cut 1861 to 1865 out of American history?  There was a voluntary war during those years.

Y’all, by “at great sacrifice,” I think she means the economic advantage of having slaves.

And America is exceptional because all the rest of the world has slavery.  We are exactly as exceptional a Italy.  And Norway.

 

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