Progressives NEED history to be forgotten.
They can never get marxism/communism/socialism in the US if people remember all the other times/places it’s been tried.
ANTIFA would have to change their name if people remembered Ennio Flaiano in 1930’s Italy saying “In Italy, fascists divide themselves into two categories: fascists and antifascists”
Liberals will be laughed at when they insist today’s racism is worse than the 1950’s by anyone who know history of the 1950’s.
The way democrats want blacks to be taken care of while not being able to buy property (as in land, not TVs) or having education opportunities that let them escape their situation looks a lot like the way democrats in the 1800s (pre & post civil war) wanted blacks to be taken care of without being allowed to buy property or have a path to escape slavery/servitude. Best to erase pre-1960 history or blacks may start making the connection.
Southern white folks are more likely to disparage Negroes in casual speech while treating their coworkers and, yes, friends, as equals or as white folks if you will. Northerners have no Negro friends, only comrades. It is a different animal. Friends defend each other. Comrades work side by side in a task but should one deviate from his assigned part he is cast out of the comradeship. Comrades can be friends but usually are not. Northerners are functional racists acting as if Negroes are incapable of success or even supporting themselves without the protection and assistance of white people. Southerners may talk more trash but on the street they treat individuals as individuals. Northerners, among themselves, are more universally diaparaging of Negro abilities than are Southerners.