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rob05c  ·  3565 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History

    Fisher said the Advanced Placement history class fails to teach “American exceptionalism.”

As someone with Cherokee blood: he can shove "American exceptionalism" up his ass.

I lived in Texas for years, and nearly every white person I met had the mindset, "You can't hold us responsible for our grandparent's actions," as though that indemnifies them. You know what? We're not asking for blood. We're just asking for you to remember it, so your children don't repeat it. You can't commit genocide and twenty years later claim immunity. That's not how it works. Racial and national sins exist. No xenophobic senator, no cowardly state, no immoral nation can erase that. You can hide it, you can lie to your children, you can lie to the world. But you can't erase it.