Originally Posted by cgilcreast (Post 1781734)

The bias won't stop until our education system educates. That includes primary, secondary and university systems. The reason that at home education is taking off.

Originally Posted by Stuart Zaikov (Post 1781746)

Our school system is doing a terrible job teaching our kids the history of our country or for that matter world history. And please notice the word all.

Why do you think that so many comments are racist?

Originally Posted by Singerlady (Post 1781888)

As a former teacher with many years of experience it is not that the schools are not teaching the students well. The students learn the material for the test but that does not mean that they necessarily believe it. Parents teach their ideals to their children and those beliefs are ingrained in those children. We can only do what we can do with the children. History teachers have them at most 50 minutes per day (high school). How many minutes do they spend with their parents?

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing (Post 1781819)

I agree with you about some of this. I believe in showing things as they were or as people thought they were, even if wrong. (From what I hear, much of what Margaret Mitchell wrote about race relations was highly romanticized.) I loved “Song of the South” and the singing crows in “Dumbo.”

However, as a vet, you might like to consider this thought about the statues and military bases. Most of the Confederate generals went to West Point, and when they entered the U.S. Army, they swore solemn oaths to uphold and protect the United States of America. Then they broke their oaths, turned traitor, and took up arms against the country they had promised to protect and tried to destroy it. Why should we have these generals celebrated on our town squares? Why should traitors like Bragg and Pickett and Beauregard have their names on military bases? (And is it significant that there is no Camp Longstreet, given that he repented, became friends with Grant, and led African-American troops?)

Robert E. Lee is a distant relative of mine (through his wife), and I was born in Virginia, and some of my ancestors fought and even died for the South (though one was a captain under Sherman when they rode through Georgia). Even so, I think this is worth considering, on the basis of whether oaths matter.

Originally Posted by Windguy (Post 1781760)

Statues of rebel soldiers are inappropriate in our parks and what not. They were traitors and should be vilified and not glorified. If you want them to serve as history lessons, put them in museums that teach about the horrors of slavery and what happens when people stress our differences more than what we have in common.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1781690)

These statues belong in a museum in an exhibition about the slave trade and the Civil War. Maybe in an entire wing dedicated to what happens when you don't embrace differences.

Columbus is irrelevant. As has been pointed out for decades now, he didn't actually discover NORTH America at all. He never set foot on this continent and he has nothing to do with North American history.

Originally Posted by bowlingal (Post 1781740)

will book burning be next?