The victor gets to write the history and text books.

M. Westbrook

--- "COUNTRY.GARDENS" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't a legal or moral action, why are
> we
>  teaching our children that it was pivotal?
>                                         Anne
>
> Anne,
> Simply because we are now teaching something and teaching it as being
> "pivotal" does not necessarily mean that it IS or WAS ever
> pivotal.......all
> it means is that is how we are now instructing our children to perceive
> that
> action.
> It's all relative!
> It all depends on who it is that is creating the spin.
> Deane Mills
> Miz Gardens
>
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