… real history taught in our schools because you're afraid that it's going to hurt people's feelings. To know that their ancestors were so savage that they would enslave black folk. You don't want them to understand why the 14th Amendment mattered then and it matters today. You don't want them to understand that. That when they draw these racist lines and tell black folk that they shouldn't have representation in this country that it is against the Constitution. (05:16–05:23)
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Asserts that there is a reluctance to teach the significance of the 14th Amendment.
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