“Those Who Forget Ignore History . . . .”
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At the Bangor Daily News, professor Ian Mette argues forcefully that America needs to take its blinders off and teach the history it has rather than the history it wishes it had. A nugget (emphasis added):
We continue to see attacks on people who give voice to the historically marginalized, including groups based on identities such as racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, and sexual identity/orientation, just to name a few. And we often fail to acknowledge that our country’s economy was founded on the enslavement of people to propel itself into a global powerhouse in just a few short generations . . . .
