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Kittycow

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1. According to the article..

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Oct 21, 2017, 05:42 AM

Oct 2017

the people involved were modeling garments commonly worn in the 17th century. The leashes were "teathering straps", used to teach a toddler how to walk. The child in this historical exercise was pretending to be much younger

My question is: why is it always the black kid in these school-type demonstrations stuck in the subservient role?

A purely rhetorical question, of course.

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