a literal pro-slavery crank got the texas historical commission to remove books about slavery from gift shops at texas plantations www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
I'm getting really good at heavy sighs.
Shades of early in the first Reagan administration, when GOP pressure forced the Grand Canyon National Park gift shop to carry books that touted young-earth creationist flood "geology" as an "alternative theory" explaining the formation of the canyon
As someone who lived in Brazoria CO. for over 25 years & worked closely w/ THC this infuriates me. How dare some outsider come in and throw her weight around to stamp her racist views on a piece of verifiable history. The whole concept of Juneteenth is bc TX slaves weren’t told about emancipation!
Dear God - you just know that the book-banning prat is a white person who believes that acknowledging slavery+it’s legacies is a sign of weakness+that hanging onto their white supremacy is an priority second only to their narrow-minded misogynist, abortion-banning, ‘christianity’. Ick!
fuck's sake
🚫 NOTHING 🚫 ~ Texas does anymore surprises me ~ Sadly 😔
The "not pointing out that the one doing the whipping was also a slave" gets a very big stuffie at the But Black People Liked and Deserved Slavery carnival booth
I went to visit a plantation in Georgia when young. Early 1960s. Don’t remember books. What I remember, is they still had separate doors to enter buildings, separate water fountains labeled. I was young and naive as this didn’t exist where I lived in California. I was shocked.
The Civil War never ended...