Be careful teachers, especially those in Florida. Your Governor might prosecute you for sharing history like this with your students.
History is full of good and bad and indifferent. It is history. Every age has hard lessons for us all. WE love our purple mountains' majesty and our alabaster cities' gleam. But other nations' skies are as blue and mountains even higher, and cities' as teeming and fauna as diverse. We revere America for the lofty goals of the Declaration and Constitution - above its beauty and in spite of its Constitutionally noted imperfections, recognized and not, that soil our history from before Christopher Columbus's toes touched Caribbean sand till today.
History is full of good and bad and indifferent. It is history. Every age has hard lessons for us all. WE love our purple mountains' majesty and our alabaster cities' gleam. But other nations' skies are as blue and mountains even higher, and cities' as teeming and fauna as diverse. We revere America for the lofty goals of the Declaration and Constitution - above its beauty and in spite of its Constitutionally noted imperfections, recognized and not, that soil our history from before Christopher Columbus's toes touched Caribbean sand till today.
Slavery, Native American slaughters, sexism, homophobia, gilded age serfdom, fascism, eugenics, segregation, internment camps --- all these and other horrors have found root in our beloved America despite our noble goals. Our children need to know our history. One of the public education goals, stated in our standards and gladly accepted by me, was to instill a love of America's republican heritage and admiration for our founders. But all that within the basic standard of truth.
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