Wisconsin Republicans want to eliminate these words from classrooms

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

We are taught our nation was the greatest defender of freedom the world has ever seen , our founders were heroes , and yes we were taught the dark parts of our history like slavery and Jim Crow but we explained that we were still better than the rest of the world at the time .

How did you type all that and come to the conclusion that your education was "fine" and without bias?

Better than anti American propaganda

Good news, we are not limited to a binary choice between anti-American propaganda and pro-American propaganda. We can, in fact, teach the truth!

Good news we were taught the truth as we did learn about the dark parts of our history to such as slavery and Jim Crow .


We just didn’t demonize our founders over it

Imagine being ignorant enough to demonize the Founding Fathers.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Founding Fathers built a foundation for this country that has withstood the test of time and inspired us to maintain our democracy throughout the ages.
They deserve reverence. They helped create and maintain American democracy, both due to their efforts as living individuals, and due to them serving as inspirations to later men.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Founding Fathers built a foundation for this country that has withstood the test of time and inspired us to maintain our democracy throughout the ages.
They deserve reverence. They helped create and maintain American democracy, both due to their efforts as living individuals, and due to them serving as inspirations to later men.

If Thomas Jefferson came back to life , he would welcome the criticism. The founding fathers knew that Just because something worked then, doesn’t mean it could be improved now.

They deserve respect. But they don’t deserve adoration like Gods.

You can revere someone or a group of people without thinking of them as literally perfect. None of our Founding Fathers were perfect people. The reverence does not come from them allegedly being "perfect" in any case. It comes from them helping incubate a culture of democracy, liberty, and relative stability in this country.
And their inspiration has already been improved on in numerous ways. And because we are all imperfect human beings, there will always be something to improve on.
The men who founded this nation and brought it into existence would agree with that, yes.