#StrongerTogether ! “Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because textbooks and monuments are wrong...marginalizing African Americans and making us all dumber.”

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“Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong.

False history marginalizes African Americans and makes us all dumber.

… As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done and why. The resulting mythology took hold of the nation a generation later and persists — which is why a presidential candidate can suggest, as Michele Bachmann did in 2011, that slavery was somehow pro-family and why the public, per the Pew Research Center, believes that the war was fought mainly over states’ rights.

The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about. We are still digging ourselves out from under the misinformation they spread, which has manifested in our public monuments and our history books.

… De-Confederatizing the United States won’t end white supremacy, but it will be a momentous step in that direction.”

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