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LZ Granderson

LZ Granderson: Texas keeps trying to make slavery sound less slaveryish

Involuntary relocation.

That's one of the euphemisms a group of educators in Texas came up with as part of the curriculum that would introduce the transatlantic slave trade to second-graders.

Now, fortunately the Texas State Board of Education rejected "involuntary relocation" — which sounds more like what happens when your car gets towed, not centuries of government-sanctioned kidnappings. But the fact remains that these educators are tasked with finding a way to make slavery sound less slavery-ish.

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