PBS Pushes Misinformation GOP Is Trying to Erase History of Slavery

EXCERPT:

GILPIN: "It's terrible, Walter. It's terrible because we've spent half a century trying to get to a better, truer notion of our history. And my career as a historian has paralleled those years of exploring African American history, finding the sources that will show us a more complete view of what that era was like, understanding what Lee was like as a slaveholder, for example. That's part of it, too. And to just erase all that and say, 'It never happened, it didn't exist, and we're going to go back into this rosy view,' that leaves us ill-equipped to understand the present. We have to confront that history to see who we are now, because who we are now is about where we come from. And if we deny where we've come from, we mislead ourselves and we end up undertaking actions and policies that are destructive rather than constructive in getting the United States to a more perfect union and a better place."

(via NewsBusters)