And this was before CRT took hold of the public schools by the throat, and before the New York Times’ “1619 Project” spread the lie that the colonists were fighting for slavery above all else in the Revolutionary War. (Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!) You know if that ridiculous misconception was rampant ten years ago, it must be even worse now.
The fact that this is even possible is depressing. If our education system and the culture can’t even inform our students that much, what hope is there? This is near Easter season: they show “The Ten Commandments” on ABC every year. Hello? Building the pyramids? Moses? “Exodus”? I knew that slavery was a long-time, world-wide, human practice by the time I was seven! How is it possible for today’s college grads to miss that little detail?
More from that 2016 College Fix article:
“They cannot tell you many historical facts or relate anything meaningful about historical biographies, but they are, however, stridently vocal about the corrupt nature of the Republic, about the wickedness of the founding fathers, and about the evils of free markets,” Pesta said…We must absolutely teach those areas where Western culture has fallen short, but always with the recognition that such criticism is possible because of the freedoms and advantages offered by Western culture.”
Well, ten years have passed and if anything that goal is more elusive than ever, and half the country furiously supports the people, ideology and party responsible for bringing us to this point.
Where’s that wood-chipper? Oh! There’s Steve Buscemi’s foot! I’m coming Steve! I’m coming!
Ethics Alarms 
This is near Easter season: they show “The Ten Commandments” on ABC every year. Hello? Building the pyramids? Moses? “Exodus”?
Jack, just curious…Do you think Moses/the Israelites built the pyramids?
Not that I don’t understand and agree with your point, but I find it a bit ironic to use false history to prove false history.
I am mixed here. It is a common myth that slaves were used to build the pyramids; perhaps pervasive enough to just ever so possibly suggest slavery existed elsewhere, thousands of years before Europeans knew of North America?
Its also commonly taught that slaves often escaped to Canada, but I guess less common to teach that is because Canada abolished slavery in the 1830’s (along with its then British overlords).
Interestingly, Mexico also abolished slavery in the 1830’s, but we don’t commonly hear about slaves escaping south. Maybe it was because fugitives slaves hit the relative comfort of the free states along the way, unlike traveling through the deepest of the Deep South to get to Mexico?
Why is this a surprise? The Democratic Party and their Education Departments have been teaching this since at least the 1980’s. The Democratic Party has hated the United States and everything it stands for. They claim ‘we have a right to criticize our government’, but they never have anything good to say about our country. These are not good people and they never have been.
The only countries who ever decided, all by themselves, that slavery was morally wrong spoke English.