Unless we are supposed to ignore historical blunders such as civil rights and Native American persecution, in which case my question becomes irrelavent
130005
I believe in patriotism.  I don't believe that you should let a few bad apples spoil the bunch.  This country is great because if you don't like something about it, there are ways to change it.  Celebrate patriotism and vote.
583634
America is not alone in their disregard of African atrocities. It's got nothing to do with being Muslim. It has to do with the fact that there isn't an economic necessity to go in there and do anything unfortunately. Unless we stand up as humans and say something our governments won't do anything about it.
639121
If my history lessons and further study of history are correct the US is a secular nation and its founders believed that no religion should be put above any other religion. Quite the foresight if I might say as they put this provision into the Constitution to protect the country from the various sects of christianity not the various religions in the world. The controversy you state is only a controversy in your head as I could care less about your religion. However, if any religion tries to usurp the US Constitution it is within the rights of any one to question and eventually put a halt to their actions. Christians have no more rights nor less rights than anyone else. So, if you see a problem with someone who doesn't share your religious views you have not read the first amendment properly. Get over it.
645574
Politically correct history is what's wrong with our world.  If only factual events were told (with no political spin) people could make up their minds for themselves who was right and who was wrong, instead of being TOLD what to believe.
418618
I thought so too for a while because it seemed to me that finally we were over all of that racist stuff, but we both thought wrong there just as many racist now then there were a long time ago....Understand we live in a society that is mixed both ethnically and religioulsly and most of these cultures already had problems with each other long ago ...Not excluding our own America...We should have learned plenty of lesson over history about racism but that shows you that the old blind eye is closed again and now some of us are starting all over from the begining to rebuild a relationship of peace and understanding....For this to happen so late down in time it is truly a mess...As long as you have those in this world that preach and teach that junk it will never be over yet along the ones that has there own opinion of things...So as we live in the really messed up world all we really can do is deal with what it is.
194908
I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
265478
there are native american role models listen to fredom radio seek out independent news source, the native americans were victims of genocide and slavery in the name of christianity  and alot of the poulation is isolated from the trest of society on a reservation,one of the most murderous men towards them,who actually recorded his savage actions in ajournal,and can be found in archives is christopher columbus and we celebrate this monster with a national holiday try looking it up in the book or one of them disinformation you are being lied to
195711
I suppose when you take a comparative religious history class you'll get over your backwards, inaccurate and horribly stereotypical idea?
41214
Yeah, I would check other and out to side write (of the human race).  Now on the other hand if they want to know about your cultural or ethnic background, that is another story in itself, and even then they should just have a long blank line so that I can fill out my ancestral roots.
180490
Funny how religions cling to their books screaming it is historical until something is found to disprove it.  Then they say history is crap.  \n\nYou just can't win against the brainwashed.
300608
Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
675338
Your own  answer is what we wanted to hear.   \nBut some don't want to hear it. It is easy to point figures at past wrongs. And some used that in defense of their argument. Some, it never happened too( some Indians) so they don't see it as their history. And the foolish will bicker on your history.\n\nI am for all means to stop crime if we can. Obviously we can't stop all-but any will help. \n\nClose all boarders to all but visitors or students with pass. No Amnesty. No benefits. No free school. No Jobs (get tough on business).
437511
I don't think we are misunderstood but are underappriecated for sure. everyone says get over it but how can we when the us govt is still systematically raping my people. no medicare ,bad land back in the 50-80's all of the reservations were drilled for uranium so a lot of children were born w/defects or died due to illness. did the govt care? no they got paid for that land when they sold it off to someone wanting uranium. and all of the battles they (us govt) say we started they are the ones who started them  and passed off diseases to us and our kids. i say we should have burned the ships down when the pilgrims landed and  should have let them starved. they came here to America to escape religious persecution but then they just damned us all and each for having our own beliefs. yeah some great people huh? and why do we celebrate thanksgiving is beyond me.
340220
History is not on their side.
477379
I would guess that if you are a member of any so-called minority group then everything you do is considered special and historic, even if it is the same thing done routinely by others every day.  This is a form of reverse discrimination and politically-correct favoritism.
24680
Why do so many people want to take away black history month. This goes all the way back to the slave master days when they made it the sole job to erase all of our history, our culture, names, language and most of all our identity and nationality. So that we as a people will forget who we are and were we come from, then replace it with new history there history. \n\nIn 1832 a U.S. Senator named Henry Berry said to the Virginia house of Delegates: "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which the truth may enter the slave's mind. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the truth, our work would be complete. They would then be on the level with the beast of the field". \n\nWillie Lynch said:\nOur experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and recorrect itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base and they advise us that the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to shave off the brutes mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum.\n\nZechariah 11: 4 - 5,\n\nTHUS SAID The Lord; FEED THE FLOCK OF THE SLAUGHTER;\n\n(5) WHOSE POSSESSORS KILL THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: AND THEY THAT SELL THEM SAY, BLESSED BE The Lord; FOR I AM RICH: AND THEIR OWN SHEPHERDS PITY THEM NOT.\n\nIn a book by Professor Andrew Hacker entitled Two Nations, Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, on page 4, he says:\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
528146
does it matter what history says????