A timeline of American history. It shows 246 years of slavery from 1619 to 1865. Then 99 years of segregation between 1865 and 1864 (I know it's not exactly 1865, but that's for another day or another post) and then mass incarcetation from 1964 to...?

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   David (david@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 17:46:40 JST David

   I drew this very graph on my blackboard two weeks ago, and I just stumbled upon it online.

   My students were shocked, they had no idea. We could argue that it's because they're Japanese and they don't know American history. That is true. But how many other billion people don't know this? And worse, how many Americans don't know this?

   Don't let anyone tell you the US is not a racist country to its core, and probably always will be.

   #UnitedStates #Racism #SystemicRacism