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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reparations in academia?How can academia offer reparations? Sure, they can do proper research and present it to include things avoided before, but academia makes almost no difference in the public eye. Can't even publish textbooks that are are better suited to today's academic understanding of the history of the U.S. How do you accept "new history" without tearing down the Founding Fathers, please tell me that?
Michigan wants to change history textbooks and not for the better representation either. This is nothing new, nor it is only Texas and Michigan doing it. Let's don't fake all the outrage about slavery, but act like things were better afterwards. Half of the world had slavery at that time, but Jim Crow era that is still present in many ways, let's act like we have nothing to do with it? 
Let's see a single history textbook publish a diary of a First Nation person that walked the Trail of Tears? Where is it?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/michigan-conservatives-vie-to-cut-democracy-from-classroom.html[/quote]

You clearly aren't very familiar with current social studies materials in the US.  Social history is de riguer, with primary source documents from all oppressed people forming the majority of lesson plans and modern textbooks.  A huge number of high schools use Howard Zinn's People's History.  No need to be outraged that children aren't being taught our national sins.  The trouble is that they are pretty weak on world history (the fact that all of these atrocities were commonplace around the world including places where current favored groups lived and ruled AND they are extremely weak on the radical nature of the Enlightenment which led to America adopting values that changed the world for the better.  Perfect? No.  The best there was in 1776? Definitely.  As good as it gets now?  Uh huh...[/quote]

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