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I realize you arent bringing it up to bash on yourself, but that's why it's so important to control the shit they're teaching kids. People are super vulnerable when they have zero mental defenses against the propaganda and it can instill lifelong beliefs and shape perceptions on reality.
Definitely. Most of what I remember about my public education is getting beat over the head with the racial message. I didn't really become aware that things were not as they'd been presented to me until I was maybe 23.
They've been doing this for many years. I remember being in junior high in the 1990's and they were teaching about Crispus Attucks being a hero as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre- because he was black.
Three people were killed on the spot, and two died later when British soldiers shot into a crowd of several hundred rioters. While an important event on the road to the American Revolution, I wouldn't regard being killed in that manner as particularly heroic, nor do we have any credible evidence that he was the first of the three to die. When I looked him up today, it sounds like now they are pushing that he was mixed race so they can give him some Indian cred too.
None of which even matters other than it's an attempt to spin some bit of trivia into an important contribution. Even at the time I could see that they were attempting to make something out of nothing to imply that black people had a bigger role in American history than they really did.
I went to junior high around 20 years after you. I also remember being taught about that dude, and the fact that I can remember him but undoubtedly couldn't tell you about plenty of people infinitely more important to American history is a huge indictment of our education system. Rotten to the core.
In Massachusetts even boomers in The 60s learned about him.
Wokeness doubtlessly boosted the story in other states recently but in the Boston area generations have been taught about him.
We learned about him in Maryland during the 90s. Everyone else was unnamed in my Social Studies class
I once ran an internet filter startup to do just that and conservative parents can’t be convinced to care until it’s too late. Everyone wants their kid to have a “normal childhood” until their child is an adult cutting off their genitals