I knew history education in this country — the South in particular — was bad, but this... I don’t have words for some of this, or at least none that won’t earn me a suspension. https://www.theroot.com/we-found-the-textbooks-of-senators-who-oppose-the-1619-1846832317

I’ve never in my life advocated burning a book, but this may change my mind.

“Now it all makes sense.

“This is why they oppose expanding the historiography of our national story. American schools have never taught a version of history that wasn’t racialized. But, apparently, it’s perfectly fine if the racial narrative skews toward whiteness.”

“They can’t be opposed to learning a different historical perspective because they never learned history; they were spoonfed fiction in bite-sized morsels.”