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tulipsandroses

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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:12 PM Sep 10

So yesterday I was listening to someone discussing how history is being taught in some schools. They described a brief [View all]

passage in a history text book about Emmit Till - in it the passage focused on what a good job the governor at the time did and how the killing made white people look bad. That is how the horrors of Jim Crow is being taught.

I wish a better world for Charlie Kirk's children than the one he wanted for them.

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