Often, we find our own people telling us: Quit your crying and complaining, quit blaming white people for why youre poor today. Look at me, I worked hard, made sacrifices, I quit blaming others, and now I have a wealthy and prosperous life The power of history and education, is that it gives us an explanation for our current conditions, one based on empirical truth, not an individuals opinion. We find that most of our people lived in wealth and good health, we find that the poverty we are experiencing today is the aftermath of the worlds largest holocaust and genocide. - Martin Gonzalez Astoundingly, not one textbook I surveyed describes these geopolitical implications of Columbuss encounter with the Americas. Three of the twelve books credit Indians with having developed crops. Otherwise, the west-to-east flow of ideas and wealth goes unnoticed. Eurocentrism blinds textbook authors to contributions to Europe, whether from Arab astronomers, African navigators, or American Indian social structure. By accepting this limited viewpoint, our history text-books never invite us to think about what happened to reduce mainland Indian societies, whose wealth and cities awed the Spanish, to the impoverished peasantry they are today. - Lies My Teacher Told Me by - James W. Loewen
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