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“I’m only on episode 2 but have learned some really big things. Unlearning too. Unlearning is even richer than learning - there are levels. How did I never know slaves were mortgaged, like houses? for example. Or that the bundled mortgages were sold as bonds? It really hit me that our country is such a mess because it was founded on brutality and injustice and greed. And the bravery of black people in the civil war and reconstruction era and the huge contributions they made. I’m not young. I’m an avid and adventurous learner, but this had all escaped me.”
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“This is the history I should have been taught in school. This is the history I WISH I had been taught.
We have to keep our hearts open to both sides of the story. That’s the only way to evolve.”
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08/24/19
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“As a young high school kid, I had a strange option that I know now many didn’t have. I had the opportunity to take African-American History to fulfill my American History credits. So I had seeds planted then that many other white Americans never have had. I got exposed to deeper criticism of the...”Read full review »
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