Brianna’s Reviews > How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America > Status Update
Brianna
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"Had I known when I was younger what some of these students were sharing, I felt as if I would have been liberated from a social & emotional paralysis that for so long I could not name - a paralysis that had arisen from never knowing enough of my own history to effectively identify the lies I was being told by others"
— Jan 03, 2022 03:53AM
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Brianna
is on page 199 of 336
"[I]f you give young people the tools to make sense of their history, you are giving them the tools to make sense of themselves"
— Feb 06, 2022 04:40AM
Brianna
is on page 172 of 336
"For many of the people I met [..] the story of the Confederacy is the story of their home, of their family - and the story of their family is the story of them. So when they are asked to reckon with the fact that their ancestors fought a war to keep my ancestors enslaved, there is resistance to facts [..]They are forced to confront the lies they have upheld. They are forced to confront the flaws of their ancestors."
— Jan 03, 2022 03:53AM
Brianna
is on page 102 of 336
"White supremacy enacts violence against Black people, but also numbs a whole country - Black and white - to what would in any other context provoke our moral indignation."
— Nov 26, 2021 01:35PM
Brianna
is on page 68 of 336
"Oppression is never about humanity or lack thereof. It is, and always has been, about power."
— Nov 26, 2021 01:34PM