Today's Union-Tribune reported that Trump wants US School curricula to be "pro-American." -- See this link:
From the article, it appears that he does not want our schools to teach about the mistakes made by America, but only the supposed good things that were done. My elementary and high school education was in Maryland during the 1950s and 60s. I did not remember ever hearing about how the US abused the Native American Indians, Blacks, Women, Chinese, or Japanese. Many of these aspects of history were not even taught about in college history classes. I always wondered why that happened!
Now I think I understand! The victors get to write the history and do not want to be shamed. The so-called "religious right" throughout history has claimed that the groups that were being oppressed were "inferior" and that God made them that way. Of course, they were proven wrong time after time. They now want to bury that past!
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