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“If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0

LZ Granderson ponders on the reasons for opposing the discussion of critical race theory. A snippet:

I can see why some folks wouldn’t want to have these conversations in the classroom. Eventually the question of what kind of lawmaker would do this — and whom did you vote for — arises. Some grandparents may not want to tell their grandchildren this inescapable truth: Jim Crow laws didn’t enforce themselves.

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Afterthought:

I’m a Southern boy.

I had ancestors who held (as the expression goes) slaves.

I don’t feel guilty about it, because I wasn’t there. But I will be damned if I will participate in excusing or exculpating or whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) their sin.

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