Know your history
The question is: why is not that history taught at school in a country that calls itself "free" and "democratic"?
That applies to other countries, too, whether French, British, Belgian ... colonial history, Islamic slave trade history, or Japanese and Chinese history, and modern American imperialist history.
"It's no surprise that it's still possible to avoid a complete history in favour of a prettier picture of the antebellum South throughout Charleston.
The question is: why is not that history taught at school in a country that calls itself "free" and "democratic"?
That applies to other countries, too, whether French, British, Belgian ... colonial history, Islamic slave trade history, or Japanese and Chinese history, and modern American imperialist history.
"It's no surprise that it's still possible to avoid a complete history in favour of a prettier picture of the antebellum South throughout Charleston.