Last night @realDonaldTrump expressed the lie of what it taught in American schools. Lets get the record straight America wasn’t developed by white Europeans. It was developed by people who worked the land and developed massive cultural civilizations...
which were torn down by greed disguised as exploration. The murder of millions of natives through warfare and disease are the legacies of the so called discoverers of America. If that wasn’t enough European landowners used slave labor of Native and....
African populations to further the domination of resources and wealth. This is the truth of the founding of the country. Yes, we created the most liberal and democratic nation on the planet 244 years ago. We defeated Britain and became independent...
But understand @realDonaldTrump you can’t dismiss our country’s failures and promote only its greatness. Our people who persevere through trying times is what makes our country great. The heroes of our history aren’t men on monuments...
they are the men and women who fought the wars, pandemics, racism, women’s rights, and worker’s rights in this country. Our founders would have wanted them memorialized. So next time you want to pick on educators, try reading a book.
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