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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
I agree with this but we have to work to stop all the institutionalized racism and white supremacy in the US today. It won’t completely go away until our society is totally racially integrated but we can still fix a lot of it now.
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And we can start by teaching our high-school history students
the truth about how this country started, instead of a romanticized myth that places an emphasis on European superiority. We have educated our society with "history" that isn't based on facts; it has been based on what makes us feel more comfortable about how we got here.
How do you think the myth of European superiority to "savage" indigenous people is connected to:
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institutionalized racism and white supremacy in the US today
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How can students educated with innacurate history textbooks grow into adults capable of making informed decisions about the nature of their society?