The Case for Black Lives Matter in the Classroom

Black lives haven't always mattered. If you look at the timeline of American history, enslaved people were part of both our physical and political landscape. Enslaved people were property, an expendable commodity that could was replaced if broken and traded for a more efficient model. Colonizers first brought Enslaved people to America in the early 1600s, and some states maintained the institution of slavery until as late as 1865. This is almost 300 years, making America the land of the enslaved for far longer than it's been the land of the free.