There The Bee goes again, printing an Associated Press report claiming "Columbus Day lesson no longer clear-cut: Curriculum still often outdated, inaccurate" [Oct. 12]. Not mentioned is the fact that the inaccuracies are due to the AP and "educators" who bow to "multiculturalism" and revise U.S. history to find fault with our heroes.
They now treat everyone equally except those who helped settle America. But history involves the whole truth and anti-American revisionism discredits revisionists more than Columbus. Sure, along with many improvements, Columbus brought diseases, but natives had their own, and trade-offs were inevitable.
Though families "discover" places like Yosemite continually, revisionists argue lamely that Columbus didn't "discover" anything because American Indians preceded him. This is pettifoggery, not history.
Professor Dwight Murphey suggests, "The moral lethargy and lack of loyalty to one's own society" reflected in such revisionism is now "part of the ideological dynamic in contemporary America." It causes "most Americans to condemn their own past -- and even ... take pride in their own moral awareness in doing so."
W. Edward Chynoweth
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