consequences that black people have paid. does it surprise you that there are some white americans who don t want to deal with either one of those things that some are talking about. tit is one thing to portray slavery as kind of the redemption arc of white americans and black people assort of our american history, helping people being their better selves. it is a completely different thing when you place black people at the center of the history and tell our stories that way. that accounts for our backlash from people who have not engaged the text of the project and offended by the concept. just very point. people went to a plantation in