[philwelch]

> Some areas of the country now want to ban the teaching of that history.

This is not actually true, but the lie serves the purposes of activists seeking to justify their continued existence, so they keep telling it.

[vacuity]

I'm not supportive of all opinions from the left-wing about race and whatnot, but it's clear that there is real pushback. Some people want to downplay the crime of enslaving Africans and highlight "American exceptionalism", complete with evangelical Protestantism and some degree of white supremacy.