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Teaching Black History

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February 28, 2020 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

It’s hard to teach my white kids about Black history and Civil Rights in America.

But I won’t shy away from what makes me uncomfortable.

I can’t just begin in the 1960s with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Act. I can’t just teach about this in February: Black History Month.

The fight for civil rights began long ago and continues today.

No one really wants to discuss the creation of the idea of race surrounding the colonization of Europeans to the New World.

Pioneer days are lauded as an exciting time when white Europeans claimed Manifest Destiny and took land from the Natives who had lived in America for hundreds of years. Theses times are glorified in skewed history books with white saviors “evangelizing and rescuing people of color from themselves and their savagery.”

The Civil War didn’t end slavery. It made slavery illegal, and other later court decisions made Jim Crow Laws and segregation illegal, but discrimination and stereotypes in the media, schools, and our own homes uphold racism.

The Ku Klux Klan was and is hateful toward anyone who is not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

This is hard and necessary history to teach my white children who have been mostly oblivious in their sheltered lives. It’s hard history for me to revisit and enlighten myself so I understand true American history.

I share articles from social media and the news that are important about current events to my teens so they understand that racism is unfortunately still alive and well in the world.

Civil rights are human rights.

It is my duty to learn and teach anti-racism. All year round and not just one month each year.

Studying Black American History Year Round

Our favorite history texts:

  • A History of US: Eleven-Volume Set by Joy Hakim
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • Story of the World, Vol. 1: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
  • Story of the World, Vol. 2: History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer
  • Story of the World, Vol. 3: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer
  • Story of the World, Vol. 4: History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer
  • Life: Our Century In Pictures by Richard B. Stolley
  • The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings

Topics for Discussion

I know this is an incomplete timeline. We discuss issues as I learn about them and we read about them in our studies.

  • Colonialism
  • Enslavement
  • Underground Railroad
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Fugitive Slave Act
  • Nat Turner
  • Abolitionism 
  • John Brown
  • Dred Scott
  • The US Civil War. See my unit study.
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Juneteenth
  • Reconstruction
  • Freedmen’s Bureau
  • Black Codes
  • Jim Crow
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
  • 14th and 15th Amendments
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Tuskegee Institute
  • Ida B. Wells sued the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Woodrow Wilson orders physical re-segregation of federal workplaces and employment
  • Marcus Garvey and UNIA
  • Great Migration
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • East St. Louis massacres
  • Red Summer
  • Tulsa Race Massacre
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  • Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
  • Negro League Baseball
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Brown v. Board Of Education
  • Recy Taylor
  • Emmett Till
  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Little Rock Nine
  • Sit–in Movement 
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Freedom Rides
  • James Meredith integrates Ole Miss
  • 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, bombed
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Freedom Summer and the “Mississippi Burning” Murders
  • Selma to Montgomery March
  • Malcolm X
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Black Power
  • Fair Housing Act of 1968
  • MLK Assassination
  • Shirley Chisholm Runs for President in 1972
  • President Jimmy Carter appoints Andrew Young to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations
  • The Bakke Decision and Affirmative Action
  • Jesse Jackson and People United to Save/Serve Humanity (PUSH)
  • Oprah Winfrey Talk Show
  • Los Angeles Riots
  • Million Man and Woman Marches
  • Colin Powell becomes Secretary of State
  • Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President
  • Civil Rights Extensions
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Colin Kaepernick

February 1976: Black History Month is founded by Professor Carter Woodson’s Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.

November 2, 1983: President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday to honor MLK.

January 20, 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is first celebrated as a national holiday.

Resources and Reading List

I prefer to read works written by Black people about Black people. Some other books we’ve read and discussed, but they had problems.

  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • 1619 Project online
  • 1619 Project Teaching/Reading Guide
  • The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad
  • Racial Equality Tools
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Langston Hughes
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • James Baldwin
  • Maya Angelou
  • Alice Walker
  • Toni Morrison
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Ibram X. Kendi
  • A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
  • The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
  • And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK by Henry L. Gates and Kevin M. Burke
  • Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
  • Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
  • Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
  • A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country by Jabari Asim
  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
  • Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
  • Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
  • One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Logans Series by Mildred Taylor
  • Books by Angie Thomas
  • Biographies about former enslaved people
  • Biographies about Civil Rights leaders
  • Raising Antiracist Kids by Local Passport Family

Anti-Racism Books

Some of these are on my list to read. Some I’ve read and liked or disliked. It’s frustrating when white people write about anti-racism from a place of socio-economic power and white savior stance.

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
  • Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone
  • I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
  • Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White by Daniel Hill

Movies

Obviously, some of these are not for young children. Use discretion.

I love movies and I love using movies to teach history and culture. Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele have great films.

  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Amistad
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • The Color Purple
  • Sounder
  • Ruby Bridges
  • 4 Little Girls
  • Remember The Titans
  • Ali
  • Marshall
  • Selma
  • Malcolm X
  • 42
  • Hidden Figures
  • The Help
  • Fruitvale Station
  • When They See Us
  • 13th
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Red Tails
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • Loving
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Get Out
  • Us

Music

I love music and I love the rich history that African Americans have brought to our musical repertoire. See how we learn about music.

  • Spirituals and Folk Songs
  • Jubilee Singers
  • Barbershop quartets
  • Blues
  • Jazz
  • Soul
  • R&B
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

The removal of racist songs from children’s music programs is long overdue.

Celebrate Black composers, singers, and musicians throughout history.

Field Trips

We live in Ohio and we’re learning local history along with world and US history.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati

Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati:

Underground Railroad Walk in Springboro, Ohio:

Quilts often were maps for the Underground Railroad.

It’s important to revisit history lessons again and again. I learn so much while researching to teach my children Truth.

I’m constantly revisiting my upbringing and the stereotypes I was washed in during my Georgia public school education. I want to do better. I want to do better teaching my children.

How do you teach Black History?

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  • Our Souls are the Same Color
  • Love Your Neighbor
  • Nonviolence Unit Study
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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

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August 19, 2019 By Jennifer Lambert 3 Comments

We had an incredible visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. I highly recommend it for all.

The 8,000-square-foot exhibit From Slavery to Freedom provides historical context about 300+ years of slavery from the Middle Passage up to the Civil War. Artifacts include the rope from which abolitionist John Brown was hanged to Frederick Douglass’ hat and trousers to first-edition copies of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Three pavilions celebrate courage, cooperation, and perseverance.

This humongous exhibit was very intense, full of lots of reading and historical artifacts.

It was so educational for me, who grew up in the South and had very skewed American history, even from Black teachers.

I love learning along with my children. This is very, very important history and I want the truth. Even if, especially if, it makes me uncomfortable.

In this age of information, there is no excuse to be ignorant.

We were literally exhausted and overwhelmed by the end of this exhibit. It was just so much to process. It was really hard.

Escape! Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad allows children and adults to play a game that gives them the perspective of a fugitive slave.

We’ve read lots of books about this, but seeing where escaped slaves could hide and how they traveled and were cared for was eye-opening.

It made us confront ourselves and the question of what would we have done?

Freedom’s flame continues to light the way, no matter the weather.

Muhammad Ali and first lady Laura Bush jointly lit the eternal flame of freedom when ground was broken for the center in 2002.

Poignant with a gorgeous view of Cincinnati and the Ohio River.

People knew once they crossed that river, they were mostly safe from slavery, but new laws kept cropping up that made it legal for them to be captured back into slavery.

Freedom’s Flame

The Hall of Everyday Heroes pays tribute to ordinary people who resist tyranny. Important history everywhere.

Again, what would we do?

What are we doing in the face of tyranny?

The Struggle Today examines the legacy of the Underground Railroad and contemporary freedom movements.

We actually did not do much more than peek inside this one. We were emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted at this point. We will have to gear ourselves up to return.

There are often new exhibits and we could barely process it all.

“Journeys I and II” is an ongoing piece created by artist Aminah Brenda Lynn.

The Slave Pen, the principal artifact at the Freedom Center, is a 21 by 30-foot, two-story log slave pen built in 1830. Originally owned by Captain John Anderson, it is “the only known surviving rural slave jail,” previously used to house slaves prior to their being shipped to auction. The structure was moved from a farm in Mason County, Kentucky, where a tobacco barn had been built around it.

This was especially horrific, with manacles still inside. It smelled evil.

Upwards of 27 million people are currently enslaved around the world, more than at any other time in human history.

Americans still won’t admit what our history did and is doing to our citizens.

Visit the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Tickets – Buy online.

Adults: $15
Seniors 60+: $13
Children ages 3-12: $10.50
Children under 3: FREE

Hours

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday-Monday Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Tickets sold until 4:00 p.m.

Outside the museum, is a piece of the Berlin Wall.

A piece of the Berlin Wall
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Raising AntiRacist Kids

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May 4, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

I don’t like to watch the news.

Honestly, most of what I know about current events comes from people posting their outrage and ignorance on social media about situations they don’t even understand nor have an invested interest in. People just want interaction and pageviews.

White people use hashtags like #AllLivesMatter and even #BlueLiveMatter but they don’t want to share a meal with Black people. They cross the street so as to not walk by Black people. They grip their purses a little tighter when they see Black people.

The real issue is intolerance.

Hatred.

Anger.

Fear.

My heart hurts.

I’m embarrassed to be an American these days.

I think we understand even more what should mean to be American now that we live in a foreign country.

We watch how the world reacts to the hate spewed by Donald Trump and his supporters. We see the reports of Black kids and men being gunned down in the streets, in front of their families.

We’re dismayed.

Some of my Black friends share articles about how “White People Have No Place in Black Liberation.”

I see their point, but I’m torn.

We are not going to pray racism away.

We are not going to hug racism away.

We are not going to vote racism away.

How can I teach my children a better way than our history?

I grew up in a suburb south of Atlanta. I’m White. Most of our neighbors were White until I reached my teens. By the time I was sixteen, most of our neighbors were Black.

The schools I attended had a vast mix of White, Black, Mexican, Latino, Asian, Indian, Pakistani, everything. It was very diverse.

Lunchtime showed segregated tables – Blacks sat together; the Latinos sat together; the Asians sat together…some kids on the fringes of skintones or culture or whatever had nowhere to fit in so they gravitated towards the shade and attitude they blended best with.

This would have been an interesting read for me then and it sure is now:

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

One friend of mine had a Black father and a Korean mother. I only saw him at school. We had an art class together one semester.

My father didn’t like me socializing with anyone browner in skintone than I was.

I didn’t have many friends.

My biggest thought about that is if he were so concerned about racial mixing, why didn’t he make sure I lived in some exclusive gated community like some country club Rapunzel?

My parents have moved twice in the last 12 years or so and still complain they have some Black neighbors. My parents still exhibit their prejudice with ignorant comments and labels that I struggle to ignore. It angers me when they say things in front of my kids.

Some of my classmates (both Black and White ones) who had moved down South from up North didn’t understand the racial tension. They said the discrimination ideas were a Southern mentality. They didn’t see color like Southerners had been to trained to do.

My high school had violent gangs – The Rock Boys were a neo-Nazi White gang and there were Asian and Black gangs. I was mostly oblivious to this; I was too busy studying for biology and algebra.

There were also great class differences in my town. Rich and poor and most in-between. I grew up with my family and friends labeling some people “White trash” for various reasons.

Children are a product of their environment.

They believe what their parents tell them, up to a certain point.

I had students who believed they were less than because they had no money and an absent father.

I had students whose families were immigrants and were disadvantaged due to a language barrier. Her parents worked as janitors in the school but had been professionals in their country. Their credentials didn’t transfer over. It saddened me.

I had students who persevered and refused to settle and have become amazing, successful, hard-working, productive adults, despite-all-odds.

I had students who had every advantage – supportive parents, wealth, beauty, you-name-it…and threw it away for sex or drugs.

You might be surprised which students were which races because many of us still have preconceived notions despite trying to be unbiased.

Unfortunately, we’re not so far removed from the hatred of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Their memories of segregation, Jim Crow laws, the fight for Civil Rights have tainted too many aspects of our society.

This is where Christians need to lead the way in love.

We need to show the world what love is. Too many Christians look the other way, throughout history, not getting their hands dirty, not helping or offering an opinion.

How are we going to make history?

Remaining silent in the face of injustice is the same as supporting it.

My young son played catch with an older boy at the park. He mentioned it the other day when we were in the car, remembering that he had played with a boy who had darker skin than he does. He didn’t catch the boy’s name and we haven’t seen him since. We remember his kindness. He made my son’s day when he asked him to play catch. I didn’t fear my son playing with a Black boy. He didn’t notice anything other than joy of playing with a new friend.

But I know some parents who would discourage that interaction.

My teen daughter has a Black male friend and they communicate on Facebook because his family PCS’ed. But, he created a secret account to hide his friendship from his mother. Racial tension goes both ways. I don’t fear this friendship. But his evangelical Black mother fears for her son on multiple levels.

We can learn from each other’s differences. We need more kindness. We need to be more approachable. We need to make someone’s day.

Jesus doesn’t notice skin color. I train my children to see people. But I also teach them about racism so we can actively combat racism.

My kids see skin color the same way they notice someone’s hair color or texture, the color of their eyes, or how tall they are.

Attitudes are so different in other parts of the world. Travel and teaching about diversity is important. Teaching about BIPOC during Black history month shouldn’t be isolated to just thirty days a year.

White parents need to begin by educating ourselves.

I found these books rather tone deaf:

  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White by Daniel Hill
  • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

Better Resources:

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 
  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby and also video study
  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  • White Savior: Racism In The American Church video
  • Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
  • Want To Have Better Conversations About Racism With Your Parents? Here’s How
  • Raising Antiracist Kids by Local Passport Family

How do you teach your kids to be antiracist?

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Love Your Neighbor

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April 16, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We are commanded to love.

Who?

All of us. Each and every one. To love.

To love.

To love whom?

Everyone.

Love Everyone.

It’s real simple, y’all.

Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14

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So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.

John 13:34-35

Love is a decision.

I read posts all the time about loving our spouses and children. If we need to be admonished to do that, how much more must we be reminded to love everyone else?

In light of everything in the news lately, I am disheartened. So much hate.

But Christians must not compromise. We must love.

We are the examples.

Little eyes and ears are always present.

What example are you setting if you love one and not the other?

What do your children think if they are confused by unforgiveness or bitterness?

We’ve traveled and moved all over and seen many different peoples and cultures.

We learn about them and their history. This is how we learn not to fear differences.

This is how we learn to love.

How can you love your neighbor today?

We are called to Love Everyone.

Learn how you can Lead Your Family Like Jesus.

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Celebrating Diversity

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January 24, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 7 Comments

Our Wednesday family nights at church are a success. My husband is the self-proclaimed “culinary minister.” We’ve set theme dinners to encourage fellowship and we’ve had some exciting foods the last three weeks!

So, this week was soul food night.

In Utah, they didn’t quite know what to do, but they were up for the challenge! And I’ll tell ya – that was some of the best greens, mac and cheese, and coconut cake I’ve had in years! We made a pork loin with gluten-free gravy and another gal brought some fried chicken. There were biscuits, cornbread muffins, baked beans, salad, cole slaw, and banana pudding.

It felt like home.

I teach the children, ages 3-10, after dinner while adults are attending various Bible study classes.

It’s a challenge to engage all those different age groups in one lesson.

Last night, I taught the kids about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I feel it’s important to talk about the hard issues at church.

I focused on Agape.

We only talked about a brief history background. I could have rambled on for hours about Gandhi and the history of the South from before the Civil War, but these are very young kids.

I really just wanted the kids to understand that Dr. King was influenced and stood by the teachings of Jesus. He preached to love others, including your enemy.

And I don’t think Dr. King saw the white man as his enemy. No, I think Dr. King’s enemy was the idea that people could be treated differently because of the color of one’s skin.

I needed the kids to understand that Dr. King focused on changing the world non–violently. Whereas he was criticized for taking too long and being so righteous by even other black leaders, Dr. King remained non-violent, preaching the love of Jesus for everyone, while exerting that racial equality was of paramount importance.

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.  And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ~Luke 6: 27-31

And Dr. King was martyred for his beliefs.

I used this egg visual to help the kids understand and appreciate racial diversity.

I think even the littlest ones understood:

It doesn’t matter what color your shell or skin is.

Only what’s in a man’s heart.

It was beautiful.

The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7b

I thank God that these children really don’t know what it was like living in the South during Dr. King’s time. They cannot fathom that kind of hate.

Most of their parents don’t even understand the racial issues I witnessed growing up in Georgia from 1976-2005. I knew gang members. There were times I feared walking home from the bus stop after school. I couldn’t admit to having brown friends. Kids on the fringes belonged nowhere. I had a Hawaiian friend and a Pakistani friend. Eventually, they drifted away, lost and alone. They couldn’t sit with the white kids at lunch. The Latinos sat at their own table. Blacks sat together. Whites sat together. Asians sat together. There was no mingling. It wasn’t acceptable. It saddens me. Racial intermarriage was taboo in the South when I was younger. The kids produced in those unions were ostracized. It saddens me.

Ah, the innocence of children. I pray these generations grow up and change the world for good.

With my children at home, we discuss X-Men and all the allegory and similarities to discrimination. We read the Bible. We discuss Christians and the role they played in Civil Rights. We’re learning about eugenics and the rise of Nazism in history. We discuss current human rights issues in current events. I love that we can homeschool and discuss superheroes and comic book characters alongside Jesus and historical events. We also talked about and watched Michael Jackson’s video Black or White.

These are difficult topics to discuss.

We tend to want our kids to be innocent forever. But we also want them to be aware and change the world for good. Shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16

Remember, we are called to LOVE EVERYONE.

We are called to love even our enemies.

People are NOT our enemies just for looking or being different.

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