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Oh and one more, there is time to inculcate the students that the USA is a racist country.
That's not my experience. I was never inculcated that the USA is a racist country. History was glossed over in High School, that is true history But I got Algebra, Chemistry and Physics. I think most of us have gone through rude awakenings, if we paid attention. California has one of the genocides recognized the UN. We put $5 bounties on the ears of Indians. In The Last of the Yani, there's a description of how the last of the Yani watched as a group of men rode through his Indian camp killing everyone, taking ears and anything of value and riding out. He could do nothing at the edge of the forest but watch or rush in and be killed with the rest. Winter is setting in and he now has nothing.
Or that we infected blacks with syphilis and kept track of it into the 80s I think. And we sterilized Native American Women into the 70s. Wounded knee? When I played Cowboys and Indians as a kid, the phrase, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian,' was on TV and we repeated it while playing. I heard the phrase, "Nigger in the wood pile" and got a poor explanation for it. I sensed it was bad, but I had to wait until I was an adult before I understood how racist we are. And I was an Army brat.
And it's nothing new, racism is common around the world - look at the Han Chinese in China. We don't get good descriptions of that one, wonder why?
Inculcated? F*ck no. Don't kid yourself - we get it shoved up our ass.
