textbook: we were workers...not slaves

I think that's the mom with her kid as the avatar.

 

I took a three-year doctorate course in US history (law school) at a southern state school. This middle school textbook chapter is nothing.

I would never presume to experience racism more than black people. but just imagine what a white person overhears when black people aren't around.

There was a consensus of resentment among my peers that the .05% of the student population (the minority students) got financial aid (free tuition) to law school. Reparations? Ha! A black student gets herself into law school and people resent that she gets financial aid. Reparations? Don't hold your breath.

I actually had a professor state the South really won the civil war. I looked around and wondered if I was trippin

 

WOw

 

I love parts of the South, but the fact that the Civil War is so present in the consciousness of many White Southerners is frightening.

To hear that you encountered this kind of bigotry in grad school when IMO you'd expect to find more 'Southern enlightenment' shows me why the GOP Congress has refused to work with this POTUS on anything in almost 8 years.