re: University of Alabama system to review all building names, remove Confederate Army plaques

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Is there some movement to strike out pre-Emancipation history from being taught in schools?

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To some extent we have always kept a distance from harsh reality of what took place regarding slavery. Textbooks do very little to actually allow someone to grasp what really took place. Most ignore it as an issue until it is time to justify the reasoning for the Civil War. Yet issues surrounding slavery including our celebrated founding fathers are ignored.

History is always written by the victors. We celebrate times and people that fits the narrative we support while ignoring the atrocities that took place at that same time. Then promote those same atrocities later to justify a another time to support our narrative.

So yes we have always to some extent tried to strike out as you say things that do not paint a positive picture of the path that was chosen for our country.