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Public school US history textbooks do not tell that America was founded on anti-democratic principles and was built from its foundation to suppress democracy, do not tell the story of how the US government hunted buffalo into extinction in the wild to starve the Plains Indians, do not tell about the systematic abduction of Native children to be raised by white families and erase Native heritage, do not tell the story of the hero John Brown who hunted down slave owners, do not teach about how the US turned on Ho Chi Minh when he reached out to America to help with his own country's war for independence, do not tell of how the US attacked Soviet Russia to aid the overthrow of the Bolsheviks, and do in fact preach that systemic racism isn't real and racism is merely an individualist phenomenon where some people are racist but the United States is not a racist white settler state.
Some schools sometimes have some good teachers, but the majority are propaganda dispensaries. Structural racism exists and one of the ways structural racism expresses itself is in the public school system. You literally believe racism is over in most of America!
I'm mean, I definitely learned some of this in high school. Yet I know people who went to the same school who believe completely different things than me. Despite learning the history of native Americans, black Americans, etc. It's almost like there are also other things at play... News media, social media, culture, family, lived experience, etc. Those thing also impact what people will believe. It's not like kids go to school and just believe everything they're told. Yes many schools didn't teach this, many schools did, it's not really the whole picture though.