Perspective: White people learn about Juneteenth, celebrated by millions of black Americans every year
Click-click-click. Yup, white America hit the keyboards to quickly fill that gaping hole in their schooling, too.
did a quick poll this week, it found that 90 percent of the educators who responded don’t include Juneteenth in their teaching. All those green cookies on St. Patrick’s Day and construction paper Santa Marias on Columbus Day, but did any schools cover the deep scars of slavery on our nation and how black Americans today reckon with it?
Historians also connect red to the power and spirituality the color holds in some West African cultures.Want to talk heritage? This, far more than a greenish statue of a man on a horse covered in pigeon poop, helps Americans understand the building of this nation.It’s a day of celebration, yes.
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