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Chapter 5 Loewen

Big Question: What is racism and what does it represent today?

Screencast: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cFQqnmq8cH

Interactive Site: http://breakingprejudice.org/teaching/group-activities/



In the photo above, you may notice that everyone is a white male. What makes this a troubling photo, however, is that these men are talked about today as the American men that risked everything by signing a document. But did they really risk all that much? What about the recognizing the slaves they owned who helped build the foundations of our great nation?

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