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Myth of America – Biased History Lesson

Why is the struggling winter of the Pilgrims portrayed in a better light than the Starving Time of Jamestown?  Why has the story of the Pilgrims and Indians become the foundation of Americana?  And how can we show kids that the way history is told may be biased? Let’s look at the stories of Columbus,…

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Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids

[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world.  She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world.  She sat there, and…

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When I say ‘Most White Christians’…

  The tendancy is to group people together.  To use a broad brush.  The tendancy is for most white Christians to brush things under the rug. When I say ‘most white Christians’, I mean everyone I know in person, except for a handful. When I say most white Christians, I mean how my FB feed is filled,…

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Knowing the Underside of History

  We are shaped by the stories we tell, by the unspoken plotlines that seep into us. Individually and collectively, the histories we know and the ones we don’t turn us into a specific kind of people. What do we choose to know? Why do we choose to remember? I’ve always loved history, especially American history. …

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