#Slavery

Anti-reservationist never blame caste system&chaturvarna becoz it relates to their status,privilege,power,resource control in Indian society Never Q's religiously,socially mandated reservation system of varna,caste hierarchy where c
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To help understand what happened over at H-France today, we can return to Laurent Berlant's concept of "Diva Citizenship":"Diva Citizenship occurs when a person stages a dramatic coup in a
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The GOP loves to say Dems voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Well.....in the Senate, 47 Dems FOR; 17 against; 4 not voting; 30 Republicans FOR; 2 against. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78
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I once inherited a unit on Ancient Egypt that I would consider “knowledge-rich”. Teachers had identified all of the things the students were to know by the end of the
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“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said
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A thread compilation on Ibn Batuta's travel for myself.You may read for your own knowledgeIbn Batuta traveled Middle east-India-SriLanka-Malaysia-Indonesia-China-India-Africa-Egypt. He was a hysterical traveler. He spent 30 years away h
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This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us with one logical takeaway:White people don't want to know history because they
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Most white American abolitionists were white supremacists. As I teach my students, they got it right on the evils of slavery & fighting to end it. But most were woefully
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"It's important to remember that the Holocaust did not start from gas chambers & murder. The hatred slowly developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice, through legal exclusion, escalating violence
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PSA: Stan my man Min Yoongi who wears the "Hope Butterfly Bracelet" by Any Human, to support WWII comfort women who were violently forced into sex slavery during the Japanese
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When thinking of how long ago is actually "ancient history"Remember that two overlapping lifespans can range from 140-200 years.This means that a person born 200 years ago could have spoken
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Rewatched Troy & 300, was wondering why there hasn't been a high quality production of the life of Arminius in Film yet.Most of you probably know about the Battle of
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus literally said "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" (debts=Aramaic "choba").William Tyndale purposefully translated it as "trespasses" because he feared English read
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A #SaturdayMotivation thread of our amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change.1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s
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Think I've got it @DodgyIdealist. 1. Society Inc. (this could be left, right, & center) do not ask what the values of human beings are, but rather what the values
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Truth-telling is a spiritual discipline.It’s also a life-giving practice.It’s at the heart of confession and repentance—absolutely essential for true reconciliation to even be possible.Because you can’t resolve an issue you
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