Digital Smarts - Cartoon Network Public Service Announcement Asks Questions of History
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A clip of a Cartoon Network public service announcement that features Pearl from the "Steven Universe" show talking about the effect of systemic racism on the teaching of history has gone viral on social, attracting millions of views across Twitter and TikTok. "These textbooks are incomplete," says Pearl in the video, "There were Black Roman warriors, Black medieval knights, Black classical musicians, Black cowboys, Black fighter pilots. Where are they?"