A curtailing of critical conversations on race is rewriting American history, replacing authenticity with avoidance. We are, in effect, fostering falsehoods, whitewashing our past to the detriment of our future.

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Whitney Plantation in Louisiana was the first U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. Shouldn't all plantations highlight their brutal past instead of hosting weddings?

Without the Haitian revolution, the French might still own much of the American South. The rebellion made France sell off its American land. It reshaped world history, and most of us learned nothing of it in school.

I’m not naive to the depths of human cruelty—but the embrace of inhumanity and justification for callousness is astonishing right now.

“We’re not outnumbered. We’re out organized.”

There are the stories that made America, and the stories that America made up.