Today some of our Educational Institutions are teaching that American Citizens are different based on Skin Color and Race.

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Today some of our Education Institutions are teaching “Blame” and “Shame” in general, broad stereotypical terms with no individual evidence or reason why some individual Americans should be considered “victims” and others “perpetrators” for past injustices.

 

Today some of our Educational Institutions seem Ignorant of true facts and are complicit in sowing seeds of division and animosity that is tearing at the social fabric of our Nation.

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These Educational Institutions, and complicit Educations, should be held responsible for the harm they have, and are, causing for America and we Citizens.

This problem is articulated in an article by Sheldon M. Stern, an Educator who designed the first civil rights exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in 1977. In the article he notes:

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“Failure to educate young Americans 
about the whole story of Atlantic slave 
trade threatens to divide our nation and 
undermine our civic unity and belief in the historical legitimacy of our democratic institutions. Education in a democracy cannot promote half-truths about history without undermining the ideal of “e pluribus unum”—one from many—and substituting a divisive emphasis on many from one. The history of the slave trade proves that virtually everyone participated and profited -- whites and blacks; Christians, Muslims, and Jews; Europeans, Africans, Americans, and Latin Americans. 

Once we recognize the shared historical responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade, we can turn our attention to “transforming the future” by eradicating its corrosive legacy.” ​​