Education should come with the package I believe. We can do both.

I had a black person once explain the importance of this to me like this: when talking about ancestors, they used to be portrayed as slaves. But they are so much more than just slaves. Calling them ‘tot slaaf gemaakten’ automatically makes them sound more like actual people that were mistreated, and it allows you to think about their human sides as well. This alone can have a positive effect on how we look at the history of slavery.

I can get the confusion and there are some grammatical challenges that come with it, but that’s not the most important part here. At least in my surroundings, a lot of black people seem to be more happy with this way of saying it. I made a comment yesterday saying how mostly white people think they should have a say in everything and that their opinions should carry a big weight when the topic might not be relevant to them, and I think this is one of those things.