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1. I absolutely believe in Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome.

As I said, I'm from Ukraine, born in 1987. Word War II ended n 1945. My grandparents, and all our generation's grandparents lived through the hell of World War II. It started when they were teenagers. Together, through stories, our grandparents passed down the collective nightmare that is war. Their stories are so ingrained in us two generations later, that an artist at "Ukraine' got talent" brought the entire audience to tears when she told the story of war through sand. I am two generations removed, and it hurts to watch that. If you see the video, many in the audience are crying. I showed the video to my American boyfriend, and he didn't think much of it. Because that's not his past.

Kseniya Simonova's Sand Drawing, Ukraine's Got Talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5bdMyOWLHg

1. I know that "censored" is a strong word. I am sure that many librarians pride themselves on giving people free access to amazing ideas and knowledge.

But I worked for Fairfax library for 5 years, 4 of those years I put books back on the shelf. I can tell you that certain subjects get almost zero attention. There may be 40 home decorating books for every one book about life in prison. Also, in Fairfax was only one book how to use plants for birth control, except one title about its history.

After I left the library job, I learned the other side of the saying, "history is written by the victors." We are taught ass backwards about so much - history, economics, science.

Think about it, even people on the TOUR of the Statue of Liberty don't see her standing on the chains or hear a word about it. Why is this?[/quote]

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