Schoolchildren all around most of the country, and all over the world, are taught (roughly) the truth about U.S. history. Alabama is one of few outliers.
There, children are taught that blacks and whites have, and have always had, equal rights, and equal protection under the law.
Educator Jonathan Kozol, who recently celebrated his 89th birthday, 67 years after graduating from Harvard summa cum laude, taught young white and black children in the Boston public school system, and wrote an essay in which he posed the question: Why do the parents of black kids not trust white teachers?
Answering his own question, he went on: Did white teachers protest against the use of the racist Scott Foresman elementary school textbooks that taught that “though slavery did exist, most slave owners treated their slaves kindly,” and made numerous other remarks that suggested that the North and South had equal rights to determine whether or not slavery was valid, and should be allowed to exist into perpetuity.
As to the trust issue, he concluded: “It’s simply because we are not worthy of their trust.”
Here’s a suggestion for Kay Ivey, the governor of the most backward state in the union: Tell the truth.
Not sure about this.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.
This is the intelligence level of the American electorate today.
The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%. To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.
Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.
This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.
If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy? Why do these are these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?
I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.
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