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Opinion: Hurt white feelings no excuse for subverting history

This absurd coddling of white feelings is getting in the way of exactly what most of us say we want: For us all to love each other and get along. / Getty Images
This absurd coddling of white feelings is getting in the way of exactly what most of us say we want: For us all to love each other and get along. / Getty Images This absurd coddling of white feelings is getting in the way of exactly what most of us say we want: For us all to love each other and get along. / Getty Images

By Pam Sohn 5 min read

Please, please, please — let’s not hurt any feelings. Especially little white feelings.

And by all means, let’s not teach anything in our history that was hurtful and stupid. Like the Holocaust or slavery. Like the Southern Confederacy trying to overthrow our federal government from 1860 until 1865. Like separate water fountains for Blacks and whites. Like women not being allowed to own property or vote.

Examining that history and its implications might make a child who has never known oppression or fear or hunger or humiliation to think deeply enough about those issues to go home and try to talk to their parents about them.

That’s what happened with a ninth-grader from East Hamilton High School.

Brandy Howard, who now chairs the Hamilton County chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, says her daughter came home and announced she felt bad for being white.