By Selwyn Duke
Anger is like darkness: The more there is, the less you can see.
This is a good reason why angry people shouldn’t helm social-change movements and, to the point here, why they shouldn’t devise school history curricula.
A good example of such a person might be one complaining about “legislation that seeks to shield white children from facing the facts of white supremacy — mandating that a ‘person should not be instructed that he or she must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress for actions, in which he or she played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race.’”
The above is, of course, not hypothetical, but was written by a social activist and Guardian columnist....
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