WTF?
On his first day in office he prioritizes this????
Can't wait one day to start knobbing the far left who think history means nothing more than hating America? Looking clearly and honestly at both the good and the bad in our history isn't enough for these scumbags. It has to be all anti-America all the time or they want nothing to do with it. Old man joe is already crawling through hoops for the hateful, spiteful far left.
Not a good sign.
American schoolchildren should not be taught to hate their country, or to view it as an “inherently racist” or “white supremacist” nation. But to move forward constructively on this point, instead of in a manner that further divides the country, it would be much better for a broad coalition of...
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The AHA has issued a statement condemning the report from “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.” “Written hastily in one month after two desultory and tendentious ‘hearings,’” the AHA writes, “without any consultation with professional historians of the United States, the report fails to engage a rich and vibrant body of scholarship that has evolved over the last seven decades.”
23 organizations have signed onto the statement.
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Approved by AHA Council, January 20, 2021
The just-released “1776 Report” claims that common understanding of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution can unify all Americans in the love of country. The product of “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission,” the report focuses on these founding documents in an apparent attempt to reject recent efforts to understand the multiple ways the institution of slavery shaped our nation’s history. The authors call for a form of government indoctrination of American students, and in the process elevate ignorance about the past to a civic virtue.
The 1776 Commission was racist in inception and its conclusions. It would have been a lot cheaper to just wite a rant in the newspaper. For that is all its report was, it looks like to me. It's already been taken of the gov's website. Good!
You've got every right to argue your points, Unkotare, which you haven't attempted yet.
The AHA has issued a statement condemning the report from “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.”
www.historians.org