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  thank you
context: “Listen, if there is such a thing as the woke mob in Florida, I aspire to lead it,” Dunn said.
  Meanwhile, Dunn’s statewide “Teach the Truth” tours are taking high school students to the sites of some of the worst racial violence in Florida history. His first tour in January took more than two dozen high school students from Miami and their family members to a museum that marks where Black civil rights activists Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette V.S. Moore were killed on Christmas Day in 1951 when a bomb planted under their home exploded.
  
  He will not be a victim. >
  
  
  a bomb planted under their home exploded
  
  What the actual fuck... >
  
  If you didn't know, bombings at black churches and homes was actually sadly common news in the civil rights era. 
  A lot of America's ugliness from that time is never taught in schools. History class conveniently wraps up at the victories in WW1 and 2 and how heroic the US was. They leave out Vietnam, Korea, and civil rights, the cold war, McCarthyism, all of it. 
  Read a copy of The People's History of the United States. It's a book written from the historical perspective of common folks not the wealthy white wash that you learn in k-12.  It's pretty harrowing. >
  
  We definitely learned about the bombing campaigns against black churches in my suburban Ohio school district. I remember reading Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 in English class and then having companion lessons on the Black civil rights movements in history class. Iirc, this was during middle school, I think sixth grade. >
  
  A lot of older people (including me) remember whitewashed history being taught in school.
  But my daughter is learning about what a complete asshole Columbus was, the terrorization of the natives, and so on. So I think things are changing.
  Sadly, states like Florida are trying to change them back again. >
  
  True, I'm under 30 so I'm pretty young relatively speaking, but there's a lot of people from my generation that act like we didn't learn about this stuff. We absolutely did, a lot of people just didn't pay attention. >
  
  A lot of it depends on county-level curriculum decisions, plus the teacher lottery. My high school social studies teachers were very good in this respect, but I remember in 8th grade having a teacher who was all in on "the civil war was only about states' rights!" >
  
  That's pretty disgusting when you think about that argument. It's like saying states should have had the right to decide if people can be legally owned and treated worse than animals. How can such a thing be a state right issue when it's about human beings? IDK. State rights my ass. If states can decide that then we don't really have a country at that point. >
  
  They try to spin it so that slavery and the desire for greater state autonomy just hhhhaaaaapppppeeeeennnneeeeddd to coincide. But if you asked the people of the time (like by reading primary sources), they'd say shit like this:
  
  We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel. 
  
  --Robert Hardy Smith, Alabama political and member of the provisional Confederate Congress >
  
  Shit like that is in the literal declarations of secession of most of the Confederate states. They were very up front about it.