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It’s 2025 and Black America Still Has to Explain Why Slavery Was Bad...
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9:31Now PlayingDonald Trump is railing against museums for “talking too much about slavery,” calling it woke and insisting America should “focus on success stories.” On CNN, Abby Phillip clapped back with the testimony of an enslaved person. Still, some panelists defended Trump’s framing as “balance.”
Marc Lamont Hill, Emanny, and Dr. Chris Emdin break it down:
- Why it’s absurd that in 2025 we still have to debate whether slavery was “too bad to talk about”
- Why the real “balance” starts with reparations, not erasure
- How cultural spaces (museums, schools, commemoration sites) are being attacked alongside curricula
- Trump’s pattern of “loving Black people” only in positions of subordination
- Why survival itself, not just success, is proof of Black excellence
- The psychological stakes of erasing slavery from our memory
This conversation connects Trump’s rhetoric to a long historical tactic: erase the trauma, erase the resistance, and erase the brilliance. But as Marc, Emanny, and Chris argue, we have to keep telling the truth, about slavery, about repair, about who we are.
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