Sen. Marshall on 1619 Project: ‘We Need to Learn from History, Not Erase It’

EXCERPT:

MARSHALL: "Well, Neil, good morning, first of all from the Senate in Kansas. Just finished up a town hall here and the folks are fired up here. But to answer your question, you know, this is exactly why most Americans don’t want the federal government involved in their local schools. We don’t want the federal government promoting a curriculum, especially a curriculum that’s divisive and tries to erase the true history. I don’t know about you, but I became a patriot in fourth grade when I was asked to write an essay on the Declaration of Independence. I got second place, I’m still upset I didn’t win it, but in the next year, we started studying the American history and our Revolutionary leaders, our Founding Fathers, got me excited about the quality of people they were. They made mistakes, I've made mistakes, we’ve all made mistakes, but we cannot solve the problems of this country by continuing to be divisive. You don’t fight hate with hate, you don't defeat racism with racism. Instead, we need to be preaching a message of forgiveness in this country and we need to learn to be able to forgive each other, learn from our history and not erase it."

(via Fox News)