They want to forget how dehumanizing the "superior" race treated Black people. To them, it never happened, or it was Black people's fault to begin with. They will actually tell you that Black people were the cause of slavery because Africans sold or traded their own into slavery. Stop teaching your young people to hate Black people.

Push back on narratives that blame the oppressed for their oppression

They want to rewrite history because the truth makes them uncomfortable.

They want to pretend the brutality, the dehumanization, the theft of lives and labor never happened—or worse, that it was somehow justified.

Yes, there were African intermediaries in the early stages of the slave trade. That is a historical fact. But let’s be clear: the system of race-based chattel slavery—the kind that turned human beings into property for generations—was built, expanded, and violently enforced by European and American powers.

You don’t get to erase centuries of oppression by cherry-picking fragments of history and flipping the blame onto the very people who suffered under it.

That’s not truth. That’s deflection.

Stop teaching young people distorted versions of history that excuse injustice. Stop rewriting the past to protect comfort over accountability.