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From 2021:

1000s of private schools have quietly been excluding diverse voices & teaching biased versions of history for years.
A Guardian analysis has found that private schools, especially Christian schools, use textbooks that tell a version of history that is racially biased & often inaccurat

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The rightwing US textbooks that teach slavery as ‘black immigration’ | Race in education | The Guardian

Guardian analysis finds that private schools, especially Christian schools, use textbooks that tell of a version of history that is racially biased and inaccurate

10:36 PM - Feb 20, 2023

Salma Typhii

@Epidatageek

Oh ho, got a story of the #MiseducationOfAmerica ! In my AP US history class it was taught that enslaved Black people were brought in because the Indigenous people kept dying/were too few and white workers couldn't handle yellow fever like this was a logical A to be to C thing. 1/2

In response to Torchy Windrush Brown.

12:20 AM - Feb 21, 2023

Salma Typhii

@Epidatageek

In response to Salma Typhii.

Never did explain how the white people who moved to the south but didn't work the fields survived yellow fever, a mosquito borne disease, or why Black people had to be enslaved rather than wage labor, much less why there couldn't just be trade in Indigenous grown cotton and tobacco

12:23 AM - Feb 21, 2023

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The rightwing US textbooks that teach slavery as ‘black immigration’ | Race in education | The Guardian