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 happenedāor 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 letās be clear: the system of race-based chattel slaveryāthe kind that turned human beings into property for generationsāwas built, expanded, and violently enforced by European and American powers.
You donāt get to erase centuries of oppression by cherry-picking fragments of history and flipping the blame onto the very people who suffered under it.
Thatās not truth. Thatās deflection.
Stop teaching young people distorted versions of history that excuse injustice. Stop rewriting the past to protect comfort over accountability.
Truth matters. History matters. And so does telling it honestly.
