Stacey Abrams Lays it Out!

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9. Thank you for your positivity

He is TRYING.

What I fear is that he will manage to make inroads in how it is taught to white people, who need to know it just as much as we do. So often, I see excuses made for what happened, and statements about "It wasn't me, it wasn't my family"... and anger about why we get a month...

I feel as though his efforts will encourage a sentiment of "we don't need to know". And then when we point things out, it seems like whining because there's no historical context.

I think that in black neighborhoods, and liberal neighborhoods, it won't be erased. But I fear that it won't stay integrated within America's history.

In Florida, the governor wants to convince people that we benefitted from slavery, and folks were lappin' that up.