I’m not going to go to avid and read your link.
Why are you advertising for them?
Vox.com = fake news
I consider Vox a slimy, left-wing propaganda site. Its omission of facts to push a leftist agenda is obvious to anyone with an IQ above a radish.
Its mis-reporting of the vicious Muslim attacks against the Buddhist population in Myanmar (Formerly Burma) is particularly odious.
VOX = Howard Zinn
Ok. I get it. Slavery was bad. Slavery was wrong. Some slaves were mistreated. Black people suffered.
Thing is, I didn't do any of that. So I don't feel guilty about any of it.
I'd take issue with number 2, though.
It seems like the writer has a semantic quibble, rather than a valid point.
Sure it's going to be anti-white, but the myths are certainly worth reading.
The theme seems to be mostly about how black people were resilient and some even prospered in America during the slavery era and beyond.
I really only found fault in that they claim that there were no black "patriots" during the revolutionary war.
I don't think that was true.
In fact there are a lot of schools named after Crispus Attucks.
If they want to get “woke” maybe they could talk about white slavery in early America—mainly Irish transported to the new world as “indentured” (slave) labor.
Teaching American history should start with the fact that the FIRST slave owner in America was Black. He even went to court to prove his case, & won. So if there was slavery in America, you can thank a black man.
When people talk about reparations for blacks, I ask them which ones...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
That they were better off the Halfrican Obama than they are with Trunp