Originally Posted by Tully Mars

Generation have been spoon fed a sanitized version of US history. I find it odd how upset people get when they hear anything even remotely negative regarding our past.

Well guess what? We really did hand out disease ridden blanket to the indigenous population. But we only did that when it turned out shooting them was costing us too many lives. We really did lock up all the American citizens who happened to have Japanese genes. Probably all of the signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. We've started/supported wars in 3rd world countries just to get a better deal on banana's (might be some sugar cane and tobacco in there too.)
People want the "we are the great, always have been, never did anything wrong" BS. Why? I have no idea. I do know recently I watched a show on George Washington's family farm and after a lot of digging and searching they concluded there never was any fucking cherry tree. Well that's not what my 8th grade US history book told me.

The list of crap we've done wrong is probably equally long as the list of shit we did right. I'd hope we could learn from our mistakes, if we keep denying them i hold out little hope.