Schools Must Teach the Civil Rights Movement
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Posted 11.11.2011
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Huffington Post
How can we consider ourselves to be an educated populace if key aspects of American history are ignored?
How can we consider ourselves to be an educated populace if key aspects of American history are ignored?
Anger is more than enough to get people into the streets as the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements attest. However, anger is not a principle that can be used as a cornerstone for governing.
For the second phase of the Occupy movements to be successful, it must have something that was glaringly missing from its first phase: leadership.
What is American exceptionalism? Is it merely the commonly held theory that America possesses measurable outcomes that make it vastly superior to other nations?
