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Include the fact of the Japanese internment in the 1940s, segregation (Tuskegee airmen, 442nd Regiment, etc). It's all part of a more complex history, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I totally agree we need to rid ourselves of the mythos, while not neglecting some of the amazing things that were done by those people.

Include that we were still sterilizing Native American Women into the 1970s. Include the fact that California paid $5 for the ears of Native Americans and it's a recognized genocide by the United Nations. Include the Fort Pillow Massacre of black Federal Troops by Confederates, and the Tulsa Race Massacre. Give them the picture that there were actually 26 colonies and our thirteen revolted but the other thirteen were in the Caribbean and dependent on the British Military to keep their slaves in line. Let's no forget that part of the reason the Alamo was fought was because Mexico had outlawed slavery.

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