White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative (www.newsweek.com)

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Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you "can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress" during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

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[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Lesson #1: Do as you are told.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That’s not so bad: you have to work to get “texture”. The man’s a back artist and he couldn’t have done it without slavery. And he’s so much better off. Do you think anyone could get that kind of texture back in Affrica?

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 4 months ago

Jokes aside, here's one example of what traditional scar tattoos look like.

People all across Africa have been practicing scarification for ages. Source.

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