I don’t think they teach American history anymore. Or anything at all about our founding or the constitution.
Yep.
And what a true shame that is.
-”I don’t think they teach American history anymore. Or anything at all about our founding or the constitution.”
Instead they teach the opposite. The Constitution is a document written by “Old White Males” and is therefore suspect.
The problem with the Millennials is they are taught it is “cool” to hate success. This comes from the government school system and from popular culture (movies and RAP music).
I have a few Millennial friends who actually get it. They somehow survived the brainwashing process with good heads on their shoulders. They had keen interest when I told them I once met Ronald Reagan in his office.
Bernie Sanders says that George Washington, et al, owned slaves. And that is supposed to prove that it is easy for anyone to be morally superior to George Washington. Well, whatever they might say about slave-owning patriots, the decision of George Washington to resign after winning the Revolution so amazed George III that he exclaimed that, if it was true, Washington was the greatest man in the world.Sanders thinks he’s better than Washington because he didn’t break America’s laws and traditions by owning slaves. Well, Washington didn’t either. Washington, in fact, was subject to pressure from his neighbors not to free his slaves. And his ownership certainly didn’t break the laws of his country.
Slavery existed worldwide and throughout history as an unchallenged institution. Including Christian history. Until Christianity - and no other religion or tradition - turned against that institution over the last years of the Eighteenth Century and most of the Eighteenth Century.
William WilberforceSowell's book is well worth the read, if you haven’t seen it.
You could teach a lot of history out of Thomas Sowell’s books . . .