History: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

While we recently heard congressional testimony (at least some of us anyway) describing the angry mob which stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, waving Confederate battle flags, chanting the N-word, murdering a police officer and threatening to hang the vice president, now a smaller but equally irate crowd of their sympathizers has shown up at a meeting of the LCUSD school board in a passionate effort to protect the innocent ears of our children from hearing such significant facts of American history as that the White House was built by the labor of African slaves, that White southerners lynched thousands of Africans in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, or that during the lifetimes of many of their grandparents Blacks were not allowed to dine in the best restaurants of cities like Washington DC, NY City, and Glendale (to name a few) …

Allan Cate
La Crescenta