making myself mad by thinking about whitewashed American history being spoon fed to us K-12 and how I’m in my 20s relearning the 𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓾𝓪𝓵 history that they just straight up lied to us about

one example being that the Statue of Liberty was based on the likeness of a black woman https://vm.tiktok.com/JekTXdx/ 

it was meant to celebrate the freedom of slavery, not immigrants - Ellis Island didn’t open until 6 years after the statue was unveiled, and the plaque depicting the “give me your poor, your tired, your hungry” wasn’t added until 1903

i misspoke when i said “based on the likeness”, my apologies. the statue is meant to resemble a Roman goddess, although some say it could also resemble an Egyptian woman. nevertheless, the intent of the statue was to represent the *freedom of slaves*

i’m still searching for more information on this, which is pretty much why i started this thread, just rambling my thoughts here. but the fact that so much of history has been warped and adapted to fit appease white people makes me sick.