Our history, America’s history, has been so heavily edited. In history classes, we don’t really go into full discussions about the past. People, struggles, and triumphs have been erased. As a result, we now have a generation, my generation, of people who are intelligent but ignorant of and blind to the truth. Janelle Gray
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When we study history, we go over the building of the Great Wall of China or the creation of the pyramids in Egypt. We go over the colonization of Japan and the slave trade in Africa. But, how often do we talk about what happened to Native Americans? Why is it that there are no classes that teach us about the Native American genocide? Why are we never taught about slavery? It seems that when it comes to history, our teachers are rushing past this part to get to the good stuff. They feel that if they don’t skip these parts then their students will not be able to learn.

They think that skipping parts like this will make their students unable to learn. Unfortunately, our generation has been taught wrong about what happened in America’s past. If you listen to media like History Channel or National Geographic, you could be forgiven thinking that all of these things absolutely happened because they show you everything from Native Americans to Africans in chains.

They think that because they show you these things then you will know the truth about history. The problem with this is that when it comes to history, when you skip all of these parts, when you leave out these aspects of our history, when you leave out slavery and genocide, when you leave out all of these things, what you are doing is creating a generation of people who are ignorant. People who have no knowledge of any of this matter.

People who have no knowledge whatsoever of what actually happened in America’s past.

Source: Echoes Of The Struggle

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