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On the recordSeptember 8, 2014
They just want to have happy history and not really history, and they don't want to talk about slavery because that is not happy history.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Commenting on the reluctance to teach uncomfortable historical truths.

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