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Many of us have this misunderstanding that White Supermacy is a recent phenomenon that came to light with Oklahoma City bombing and got a shot in the arm with Trump’s election, and reacted angrily after the Black Lives Matter movement with January 6 insurrection in US and the so-called “Freedom” protest in Ottawa.”

This is an interesting read which shows that White supremacy precedes the origins of the United States and Canada. Some of us still believe racism as aresult of Southern slavery. The reality is that slavery was both in the North as well as in the South. The father of White supremacy was John H. Van Evrie, a Canadian who ended up settling in New York City. According to the author, the older history textbooks were like syringes that injected the toxin of white supremacy into the mind of many generations of Americans.

Harvard historian examines how textbooks taught white supremacy

We interview historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who is writing the book “Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American History.”

Harvard Gazette

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