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Originally Posted by Two Bills
By sanitising half of the history of any country to suit political ccorrectness and social trends, how do future generations learn from past mistakes?
Teach it, warts and all, and let the kids see where our leaders went wrong in the past.
Having said that, looking at the present state of the world, most of todays world leaders, all flunked their history exams!
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Agreed. Our founding fathers were products of their times and many did own slaves.
Many people in many parts of the world were part of the slave trade including Africans who captured and sold people as slaves.
Unless you learn where the world was and how we reached this point how do you understand history?