Patriotic Education
The current occupant of the White House claims that American schools are teaching “a twisted web of lies” about systemic racism in America. He says that parents are going to demand that their children are no longer “fed hateful lies about this country.”
Which lies does he mean…this one, perhaps?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
As Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in the 1619 Project, it’s an “ideal and a lie. “
The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie. Our Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, proclaims that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain CONTINUE READING: Patriotic Education | Live Long and Prosper
