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(WIB) – It’s bad enough that America has yet to reconcile with its deeply racist past. The nation was founded on slavery, genocide and systemic exclusion, yet history classes, museum exhibits and national commemorations have long presented a sanitized version of that truth. The brutality of slavery—its central role in building America’s wealth, institutions and global standing—has been reduced to a footnote or distorted into a story about resilience without reckoning.

Revival of Racist “History”

But in 2025, the stakes have shifted. The Trump administration isn’t just ignoring America’s racist past—it’s reviving it, rebranding it and celebrating it as “unpoliticized history.” Textbooks are being scrubbed, national parks are rewordin

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