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Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [ PETER DEJONG | AP ]
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What should Florida kids learn about U.S. history? A rule is in the works | May 19
Two items from todayâs paper, on different subjects, got my attention. One is the proposed abolition of teaching âcritical race theoryâ in Florida public schools. The other is the continuing violence in Israel. Why is it impossible for people to recognize that this is not a binary world? You can teach the ideals of equality and liberty for all that the U.S. espouses, while at the same time pointing out that we have not always lived up to these ideals. (I was a history teacher, and I never learned about the 1921 massac