Subject: Re: Another Win For President Trump

It was easy for me to grow up without a clue about our countries history of racism. Even in high school it was possible for me to think that was mostly over with the end of the Civil War. That's not a good thing but it is what the right is pushing now. A false patriotism based on burying the past. Better to confront the reality and strive to make America a better country, not deny history.

And that;s the way I grew up. I did find out some things bit by bit. I remember my father sitting me down and talking to me about antisemitism, but no similar talk about blacks other than to let me know when I was a kid that a black Doctor stayed up all night to watch me when I had a fever. It was a courtesy that Doctors paid other Doctors back then.

I went to four different high schools due to turbulence in my father's career and always felt there were gaps in my understanding of history.