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01:11The entire transatlantic slave trade was designed to deny African people their humanity.
01:19And that denial was premised on a racial hierarchy with no basis in fact or science, a racial hierarchy that
01:28deemed whiteness superior and blackness inferior.
01:34The atrocities that were committed against enslaved Africans, the myriads of injustice that were born of slavery and carried forward
01:44into successive social framework,
01:48took place specifically because those persons were considered objects, not human beings.
01:59So when discussing slavery and its resulting institutions and practices, we must always start by reclaiming racial equality,
02:08the dignity of Africans, the humanity of our ancestors who were enslaved, and as a matter of course, our own
02:16humanity.
02:21Here in the United States, black history courses are being removed from school curricula.
02:28Schools are being mandated to stop teaching students about the truth of slavery, segregation, and racism in American history courses.
02:39Books about those topics are being banned in schools and public libraries.
02:45Museums, art centers, and other institutions whose budgets rely in any way on public funds are being prohibited from shuttling
02:54exhibitions and programs,
02:55or from displaying materials promoting racial awareness or black history.
03:04Much like the law that was put in place to regulate the punishment of the enslaved in Barbados,
03:10these policies are becoming a template for other governments as well as some private institutions.
03:17At the very least, they are slowly normalizing the erasure.
03:23They are slowly normalizing erasure.
03:27That was quite a surprise.
03:29I don't think I could, I could?
03:29I thought, play it out of my ways, do you think?
03:29Actually, let's you go to read, I can't explain it.
03:29Anybody else?
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