Native America: Why Don't Middle School And High School American History Texts Tell The Truth?

Alan: This post is dedicated to my daughter Maria, the most ferocious freedom fighter I know; an undaunted activist, community organizer and environmental educator. Maria is totally dedicated to the liberation of Native Americans.

Andy Borowitz points out that Trump is just a symptom we need to renounce in November.

But if we truly intend to heal ourselves as a nation and return to a shared sense of integrity and truth, it will be necessary to reform education - and educational curricula - so that this four year-long spasm of nationwide stupidity-and-ignorance doesn’t manifest again.

But watch what happens.

It is at the level of curricular reform that tens of millions of self-professed American “patriots,” mostly people who treat the flag like a shroud in search of an “infidel’s” cadaver, will resist — tooth and nail! — any attempt to tell the whole truth about American history. 

The same holds true for the history of slavery, Jim Crow, Segregation, Separate-But-Equal and Extrajudicial Murder by Bad Cops. 

But this is not an essay suited to full explication of that horror. 

Here is a post that will introduce you to the grotesquerie of black slavery and its aftermath:

BRILLIANT Video History: The Key Difference Between "Income" And "Wealth" For U.S. Blacks

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/brilliant-video-history-key-difference.html 

Why do so many Americans insist on teaching their children historical falsehoods rather than "the whole true and nothing but the truth so help me God?"

Once these jingoistic, chauvinistic pseudo-patriots lose their platitudes -- once "The Official Story" crashes and burns -- they will "lose their religion."

And for simple-minded, ritualistic folk, there is no fate more horrifying than the realization that one’s platitudes were often no better than rank falsehoods.

The Most Direct, Efficacious Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: 

Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - Will Be A Pre-Requisite For High School Graduation

(Here's How It Works...)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-most-direct-way-to-restore.html

Crazy Horse Memorial Bigger Than Mount Rushmore

All 4 Presidents Heads Would Fit Inside Crazy Horse's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFB1Ic1PMk

The Origin Of White Supremacy: "An Indigenous People's History Of The United States"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-origin-of-white-supremacy.html

Snopes: "Did Christopher Columbus Seize, Sell, and Export Sex Slaves?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/05/snopes-did-christopher-columbus-seize.html 

General George Washington Orders "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/general-george-washington-orders.html

The Biggest Genocide In Human History Didn't Occur In Nazi Germany, But On American Soil
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-biggest-genocide-in-human-history.html

"Why Isn't This Map Of Native America In American History Books?"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-isnt-this-map-in-american-history.html

If Tribes Were Counted As States, Then The 5 States With The Most Coronavirus Would Be Tribes

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/if-native-american-tribes-were-counted.html

White Americans' Treatment Of Native Americans: A Glimpse Of The Horror

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/white-americans-treatment-of-native.html

George Carlin, Ursula LeGuin And Bill Maher: Using Language In A New, Revolutionary Way

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/george-carlin-ursula-leguinn-and-bill.html

Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/teaching-civics-and-american-history.html

A Majority Of Republicans Hold Negative Views About Higher Education

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-majority-of-republicans-hold-negative.html

When Uneducated Populists Marginalize Educated Elites, Democracy Itself Wanes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/when-uneducated-populists-marginalize.html

A Reminder From John F. Kennedy

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-reminder-from-john-f-kennedy.html

Reprise: Trump Is The Symptom Of A Broken Educational System. (Howard Zinn Is The Fix)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/reprise-trump-is-symptom-of-broken.html 

Instruction And Education Aim At Antipodes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/instruction-and-education-aim-at.html
"Proposed Cross Border Charter School"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/proposed-cross-border-charter-school.html

It Has Come To This: How Do Intelligent Citizens Deal With The Irredeemably Stupid, Ignorant And Self-Pithed People Who Have Taken Over? The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Is Now Reality

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/it-has-come-to-this-how-do-intelligent.html

Trump Is "Just" A Spearhead And A Symptom: Basically, Stupid People Have Taken Over

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-is-just-spearhead-and-symptom.html

Alan: Although I first saw this quotation ascribed to Heather McGhee, its actual provenance is complicated.

"When You're Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression"

Quote Investigator

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/10/24/privilege/