In 24 sweltering hours Nat Turner led a revolution. Turner, an enslaved Black man in Southhampton, Virginia, successfully organized upwards of 50 slaves. On August 21, 1831 they rose in unison, killing roughly 60 slave owners and overseers.Turner’s most potent weapon?Education.....
After much debate and an unsuccessful vote, the state instead opted to double down on slavery. The lasting lesson taken from Turner’s revolt? An educated Black person was a dangerous Black person. Throughout the 1830s, Virginia and other southern states began enacting and expanding legislation making it illegal not only for slaves to learn to read, but for free citizens — Black and white — to teach them to read.
In short, racial subjugation is not an unintended consequence of the United States’ educational structure, it is an integral purpose of that structure.
It’s that history that the United States Supreme Court’s six conservative justices at best ignored, and at worst chose to perpetuate in striking down race based affirmative action in college admissions via the cases of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.
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Submitted July 02, 2023 at 10:24AM by BackSpinHipHop https://ift.tt/UY9CzPx
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