When people say you can’t teach about slavery in schools - is that a thing? I went to catholic schools growing up, so i imagine our courses weren’t exactly aligned with the prevailing state curriculum in some respects, but we definitely learned about slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights movement, etc.
Are public schools not touching those topics?
You were not taught about slavery, you were made aware of its existence.
I feel like I had a pretty fair grasp on what it was - at least by high school. I can see 8man’s point about kids only being taught certain elements (I.e. the heroic stories of the resistance and ultimate end) of it though.
To the extent anyone is saying DO NOT TEACH ABOUT THE HORRORS OF [slavery/Reconstruction/Jim Crow] I think we can all agree that that is absurd.
That’s part of where my confusion lies, because a lot of what is being discussed as CRT ITT is stuff I was taught 15 years ago in high school, and the curriculum didn’t seem like it was controversial.
Part of that is due to how superficial the complaints are, they aren't specific and lack focus. The 1619 Project and CRT have been targeted by conservatives for the sake of culture wars and creating bogeymen to make people scared and uncomfortable, a fundraising ploy as old as time. These arguments aren't anything different than "don't blame us for slavery," something I've heard as long as I can remember. I think for common folks, it's uncomfortable to talk about slavery, and most white people don't have to deal with black people on a day to day basis, so why talk about slavery.
For us, the point of 1619 and to an extent CRT, how we've been taught about slavery is woefully inadequate. Most slavery education ends with the emancipation proclamation and that's very inadequate. The fact that most of you people are just now leaning of Juneteenth is evidence of this. I was largely educated in Kansas but I was born in and my entire extended family are from Oklahoma. I learned about Juneteenth at the Ralph Ellison Library when I was 8 years old in 1984.