Liberal Forum

There’s a disturbing trend unfolding in American schools, and anyone who’s spent time talking to high school students can’t deny it: we are raising generations who don’t know basic history—and worse, they don’t even know that they don’t know it.I’ve spoken with seniors in high school who can’t identify Ulysses S. Grant, who have no idea what the Bill of Rights contains, and who confuse the Civil War with the American Revolution. I’ve even encountered students who believed slavery in the U.S. was more humane than slavery in Africa—a grotesque misunderstanding born from sanitized, watered-down teaching that avoids historical pain in favor of politically safe ambiguity.Many students can't name key figures from the founding era.

They don’t know who Alexander Hamilton was beyond a Broadway musical. They haven’t read the Declaration of Independence. They've never heard of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, or John Lewis. And the few who have only know them from brief side notes buried in chapters.This isn’t just a trivia issue—it’s a civic crisis. When a population doesn’t understand where its freedoms come from, how they were fought for, or who sacrificed to achieve them, those freedoms lose their meaning.

The less we remember, the easier we are to manipulate. The easier we are to divide. The easier we are to control.A democracy built on amnesia can’t last.We need to start teaching history the way it actually happened—warts and all. Not through sanitized soundbites or cherry-picked mythology, but through honest, rigorous engagement with our national past. That includes the ugliness. That includes the injustice. And that includes teaching students how to think about history, not just what to memorize and forget by test day.

And now, a brief reminder for @Blackvegetable  
You’ve dodged over 50 questions in your own threads. Until that changes, I’ll be dodging yours just as often. That’s called balance. Start answering, or stop demanding. Coward. Moron. retard. Loser. Punk. Imbecile. ****-for-brains.