teach the children

arizona gop governor jan brewer signed a law banning "ethnics studies."
mostly targeting chicano studies, but not excluding other minority groups.
texas school board rewrites history books to aid the conservative agenda.
filling the book with right-wing lean such as...

John McCarthy was a national hero. Thomas Jefferson not so much.

The SLAVE trade was really a triangular trade system that just happened to include human beings.

Texas is the country's largest distribution market for learning materials. Meaning, millions of children will be expected to learn these MINOR rewrites and take test over such ideas.

The United States may not have the most admiral history, but we can't just make as it never happened by sugar coating the facts to erase the many injustices that have caused particular groups of people to suffer centuries, decades and years.

Arizona doesn't want to make children to feel like white people were oppressors since the beginning of the start of the nation, but it is true. The Natives suffered, Blacks suffered, Latinos suffered and people suffer each day, but in order to overcome and not repeat the mistakes we must learn, forgive and move foward.

Taking away children's rights to know the truth is not tha answer.