From Pine View Farm

The Tales They Tell 0

Curtis:  Historically, Isaac Newton discovered the theory of gravity after sitting under a tree and an apple fell and conked him on the head.  Teacher:  That's a popular stofy, but I don't think it's true.  Curtis:  You mean something taught to us in history could be a lie?!!

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To answer Curtis’s question, darn straight they do.

I went to all-white school under Jim Crow.*

They told us a lot of lies and even more half-truths about life in the old South.

And the lies live on.
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*At least, it was all-white until I think it was the tenth grade when one I’m sure very carefully chosen black girl joined the senior class; the next year, a few more black students joined the junior and senior classes, and so on.

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