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The History White People Need to Learn – Salon.com

Posted by melissaicd on February 7, 2014
Posted in: advocacy, culture, education, social justice. Tagged: Black History Month, blackness, race, whiteness.
image of protesters demonstrating against Jim Crow laws, carrying signs stating "I am a man" while soldiers point their riles with bayonets at them.

Image from The Guardian, “African in America or African-American?,” January 14, 2011

The history white people need to learn – Salon.com.

“Being proud of being white doesn’t mean finding your pale skin pretty or your Swedish history fascinating. It means being proud of the violent disenfranchisement of those barred from this category. Being proud of being black means being proud of surviving this ostracism. Be proud to be Scottish, Norwegian or French, but not white.”

February is Black History Month.

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