[ProgressingAmerica]

It’s much bigger than this, but ultimately, yes, you largely have the concept correct.

Our early black heroes were widely known. Frederick Douglass was not just discovered 10 years ago. Phyllis Wheatley has had poems written about her if I remember correctly. Crispus Attucks’ role in the Boston Massacre was high profile after John Adams and the court trial. And similar situations for many others. They were all erased.

It’s not just “a 19th century text”. I only offer that one book because it’s an item I can quickly offer as a way to combat this. The progressives certainly aren’t going to do it. Nobody else has a vested interest here in defending America. It’s us or none.

[9YearLurker]

Douglass and Attucks are still very prominent names and were widely taught when I was in school decades (and decades) ago. If anything, modern historians and teachers have worked overtime to find black heroes to feature—and they get more than their share of coverage in education.

Was Wilson a vicious racist? Sure, but he hasn’t been particularly relevant for 100 years.

[Verginius Rufus]

Crispus Attucks was perhaps the ringleader among the men who were killed in the Boston Massacre, but John Adams did not have a high opinion of him or the other victims--they certainly were not heroes in his view.

Thomas Jefferson was familiar with Phillis Wheatley's poetry but did not rate it highly. Was that just evidence of his racism?