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The idea of being educated about history is to understand where we've been to avoid going there again in the future.
Why do white people want to start a race war to simply avoid knowing the truth about the past?
Theres a difference between educated and indoctrinated. Now bare in mind that I am in the UK and we have a fuck ton of history.
In one lesson we learned about the indian wars, very basic stuff, the trail of tears, wounded knee, little big horn etc in one lesson. And that is enough, seriously it is. If you raise kids you dont want a doom laden heritage or it wont unite people but divide and escalate conflit. I was taught this 100 years after the indian wars ended. Most people will learn more as they go through life depending on interest.
I'm qualified Economist and intrested in history, so I now know that after 1776 that King George wanted to keep the colonials pegged in between Vancouver and Louisiana along the Apalachian line. It was the Loisiana purchase that opened up the west for colonisation and the mississippi water ways for trade in Cotton etc.
Most people dont need to know all this stuff, they want to be left alone to live their lives. You are the problem with your political monomania which drives extremism. Because most people regardless if they are semi vegative dunces can soon work out that "none of that shit had anything to do with me." They know instinctivley that collective guilt and historical guilt are bad eggs peddled by extremists.
I chose the injuns here but could do black history (lesson not month),Britain with others established the Trans atlantic slave trade, that is not unique though. Britain abolished slavery, that is unique which if continually foisted in peoples face can easily flip people from white guilt to white pride.
You are just trying to stay politicly relevent as all the civil rights have "righted", problem is your not and now you are counter productive. This is te corrosive effect of I dentity politics.