Defend the teaching of Jim Crow as an important chapter in American history that bears relevance in our lives.
Refute, support, or complicate the argument that the teaching of slavery and Jim Crow are forms of "Critical Race Theory" and "Woke indoctrination" that have no place in American education.
People weaponize language like "CRT" and "Woke" and without any critical thinking, they condemn any form of history that addresses American slavery and Jim Crow.
- Consider the Civil War and polarization.
- Consider Reconstruction (12 years) and the idea of social justice and backlash.
- Consider Jim Crow as a reaction to Reconstruction.
- Consider our first terrorism, fake news, propaganda, and segregation infrastructure, which was copied by the Nazis.
- Consider the case of gaslighting by Mildred Lewis Rutheford and her language of Lost Cause and hostility toward historical fact.
- Consider the role of guns as a form of terror against blacks and as a symbol of white power and how this power has become a deal with the devil.
- Consider how we have become numbed and inured to gun violence. Consider breaking news at an American high school is not good news.
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