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Probably not. It would help if the success stories (along with how the successes were achieved) were promoted with equal vigor and frequency as the downtrodden stories.
Are you serious? The world surrounds us with the heroic stories of 'great' Americans. Jeff Bezos! Henry Ford! FDR! Microsoft! Paul Revere! The end of Bin Laden! We celebrate the robber barons of Wall Street like Carnegie, Morgan, and Frick, we never hear the stories of the workers who died in their steel mills and coal mines coughing and gasping for air amid their black lung disease or worse.
There are military bases across the land named for Confederate generals! (How many are named for slaves?) Ft Bragg is one, and he is widely considered inept and one of the worst generals of the Confederacy, yet he has national reputation. Not a bad outcome for an incompetent traitor to America, I'll say.
If you want to focus on native Americans, how many can you name? Other than those who either fought and lost to whites or, counterintuitively helped the whites survive and become dominant?
OMG, you live in the middle of Heroic Theater, and you complain about the pitiful few who break through the curtain to tell a sad story. You want to talk about history shaping? In Florida a textbook publisher just erased the color of Rosa Parks life:
A science and social studies-focused textbook publisher used in 45,000 Florida schools initially removed all references in a draft lesson on Rosa Parks' race in order to comply with Florida's Stop WOKE Act
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Studies Weekly created a version of its lesson on Parks for first graders for the state's review of social studies curriculum. This version regarding Parks ' the Black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man ' does not explicitly mention that she was Black, according to the Times. Instead, the publisher writes that she was told to move "because of the color of her skin."
A second version goes even further, failing to mention race at all.
"She was told to move to a different seat. She did not. She did what she believed was right," the textbook passage read
Seriously, the single most important fact in the entire episode is (literally) white washed. And you're worried about 'woke'? Wow.
