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Do You Understand This Man? We Think We Do…But Do We?
Benjamin Franklin remarked,” Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
It’s 400 years since 1619 — and, once again, America returns to the shortest month of the year to acknowledge that it’s BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
The last three years have been bitter ones for people of color generally, as the Trump Administration has made fairly clear to anyone paying attention to news outlets that are not Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Brietbart. Those are the media outlets that 65% of Republicans, in a recent Pew Foundation study, trusted to get their ‘news’ from (and those are the President’s favored sources). So I feel compelled to set the record straight regarding explicit bais as well as unconscience bais towards people of color.
For years I told my students a true story in the form of a quiz, about a man who, as a reward for his distinguished work in his field, purchased a Lamborghini. He then drove it to visit his father. I have left out some key details, and as I include them, you will undoubtedly begin to know how the story, and the quiz, concludes. (My high school students did, as well.)
The Year — early 1960’s.
The State the father lived — Alabama.
