They don’t want you to know the truth because truth breeds power. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen is one of the most important books ever written about how America manipulates history. This American Book Award-winning text examines twelve popular U.S. high school textbooks and exposes the deliberate inaccuracies that have shaped our national consciousness. From the pre-Columbian era to 9/11 and the Iraq war, Loewen reveals how generations of Americans were taught a sanitized version o

VIDEO NOTES: Support me by visiting https://KellieSnider.art. You'll see a way to keep my work going at the bottom of the screen. If you want to join my mailing list, I only collect email addresses in case I get kicked out of social media so I don't lose you. Quick Take Being angry about what we weren’t taught isn’t self-hate—it’s self-respect. References Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Kellie Sn

@diegobressant owner of @thewolfsdentrainingfacility decided to label my poem as “victim mentality.” That is not insight, that is confirmation bias wrapped in colonized thinking. And as always, it is men who feel entitled to challenge my intelligence simply because my voice refuses to be palatable. Let me be clear: do not confuse my gentleness with weakness. Do not mistake my peace for a lack of skill in war. I have survived systems designed to erase me and still chose softness. That is self mas