Legacy Museum opens in Montgomery, Alabama, to highlight slavery, lynchings

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10. I was fed the same sanitized and distorted history in a northern school.

When I learned early on that Columbus "discovered" America, I was taught (by default) that the natives of this land were to be deemed less than human - or as the government called them, "savages." ...Quite ironic given the savagery and greed that Columbus and the conquerors to follow were disposed to. But typical of every struggle between nations, the winner writes the history books.

In a high school biology class, our teacher actually told the only Black student in our class that he had one less chromosome pair than whites. I still wonder what effect that had on him. In fairness to the teacher, who seemed to be a good-hearted guy, he was most likely only repeating what he himself was taught.