Dramatic photo shows a sunny moment of zen in the chaos of Hurricane Irma

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which is about a Reconstruction-era Black servant telling a white child parables about the virtues of resilience in tough times and never running away—an insult to American minorities.when fair maidens and knights vanquished mysterious evils while kings and queens conquered the farthest reaches of the known world with the Christian God behind them.

Dramatic photo shows a sunny moment of zen in the chaos of Hurricane Irma

I nearly jumped out of my seat when I noticed the shirtless brown dolls wearing grass skirts and leafy crowns who apparently embodied South Pacific people at large.It didnt occur to me that I was envisioning myself in the leather boots and beige cotton of a colonial-era European explorer.I was a professor-explorer in the field gathering ethnographic notes to bring back to a campus filled with white students.

Dramatic photo shows a sunny moment of zen in the chaos of Hurricane Irma

The first part of the park we passed through on our way in and the last on our way out was Main Street.looking for the one that represented me amid the alleged cultural diversity on display—twelve minutes of Inuit fisherfolk.

Dramatic photo shows a sunny moment of zen in the chaos of Hurricane Irma

The Pirates of the Caribbean ride featured no apparent Caribbean natives but rather European outlaws who pillaged the trade ships loaded with the gold that paid for enslaved people.

My formative understanding of world events had two acts: the ancient history conveyed in the Bible and the modern arc approximated at Disneyland.If youre generating just one page.

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