California archaeologist Ayana Omilade Flewellen sees the war on AP Black studies and other teachings as a sign that America isn't ready to confront injustice.
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Flewellen flashes back to middle school in South Miami, where a teacher made a point of stressing that Africans enslaved other Africans, as if that somehow absolved the U.S. from the buying, selling and forced labor of Black people. Ayana Omilade Flewellen, left, works alongside a participant in a youth archaeology program at the Estate Little Princess Plantation in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Their work was part of the land-based research being conducted under the Smithsonian’s Slave Wrecks Project.They were among the divers who’ve explored the Clotilda, a slave ship whose mostly intact hull that rests on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama.
In that silence, they reflected on “what it meant to be a Black, gender nonbinary person diving in that space.” “That is a source for me of great strength and pride,” Flewellen says of Black people’s ability to rise above their oppression. “So if someone wants to say to me the that it would be disparaging to say that my ancestors were enslaved, I need only remind them that how they chose to live their lives [in an earlier era] has allowed me to be where I am today.”For decades, few challenged Pacific Grove’s Feast of Lanterns, even when locals wore yellowface and slanted eyes.
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