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Originally Posted by blueash
It is great to find that you support teaching real history, not white washed history. And that having children learn that there are some ugly facts in life, like loosing a soccer game or that white people systematically enslaved, raped, lynched and impoverished non-whites as a founding principle of this nation needs to be taught even if it makes a white person feel the sads.
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Your presentism approach to history conveniently ignores the profound impact that our founding principles had on the course of human kind. The type of inequities you describe had existed for several millennia throughout the world.
Our children should learn the good, bad and the ugly. But many only want to highlight the negative because what they truly despise is the rights enshrined in our Constitution that severely limits the power of our government.
Have you ever taken a moment and pondered on why billions of "people of color" dream of settling in the US? It is because the values of our founding took root and help eliminate the injustices that you obsess over not only in our country but in many others.
America isn't perfect. But the principles we hold dear are perfect. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America.
Nikki Haley