The history the alt-right wanted to resurrect makes as much sense as someone wanting to resurrect smallpox and infect themselves with it
The biggest indictment of the way we teach American history is that people can look at #Charlottesviille and say "This is not who we are."
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The history doesn't need to be resurrected. It has never went away.
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O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! - Langston Hughes
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Right wing gets how important K-12 curriculum is. They attack every official attempt at truth telling (Tucson, Portland, Texas, Ark., more.)
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@jelani9 K-12 Ss learn from honest US history that "this is who we are" & from stories of resistance, to envision/fight for just future.
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So true. I was bored by American history growing up, & as I got older & wiser I realized why: it was sanitized garbage.
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Yes , there is a series of books written to make corrections to many of the misconceptions and falsehoods found in several history books.
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American history lessons made any violence out to be an aberration, an "otherness." This violence is alive and well today. It has never died
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"This is not who we are" = "this is not who I choose to be, or teach my children, and I work hard against it so it's not the future"
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If we mean the latter we should say the latter and also do it.
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You are right. Words matter and we should say the right words.
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I said the right words for the audience who understands them. Context isn't for everybody. It's a lost artform here in America.
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I think when some people say, "This is not who we are", they are being aspirational. They mean, "this is not who I want to be."
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2. "This is not the world I want to live in". That said, I agree that words matter. Perception is everything.
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Yes. More accurate to say "This is not who we want to be."
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But it really isn't who Americans are. They fought a war against this evil to prove it. They just need to remember that again.
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Then they came home to keep Jim Crow apartheid as law for two more decades.
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@douglasblackmon noted the only reason the feds started taking civil rights seriously was fear of a fifth column of Blacks. - 1 more reply
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