This is all about keeping Americans in the dark about America’s history of bad behavior of things our leaders don’t want us to know about.

My education was in public schools. Philadelphia, Inglewood California, and Los Angeles.  I wasn’t the smartest student but I wasn’t the dumbest.  History and geography were the subjects I liked most but teachers provided scant facts.

We learned there was slavery but no one explained what that meant.  One person owning another person.  Counting slaves as 3/5 of a person in the census but the reason was never explained.  Jim Crow laws were never even mentioned in school.

In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, in which the U.S. Supreme Court laid out its “separate but equal” legal doctrine for facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–65.

Black Wall Street, former byname of the Greenwood neighbourhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district. The entire community was burned to the ground in 1921.  I never learned of this until this year.

I was taught that American Indians were savages and they had no right to anything. Custer’s Last Stand was part of the fight against those savages. the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears. President Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.”

The group of settlers known as the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism while snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains, for the winter of 1846–1847.  Schools I attended never spoke one word of the event.  When I learned of this there was one line in Britannica Encyclopedia, “cannibalism, necessity of” but no explanation.  Britannica Encyclopedia has corrected that error.

There are people who deny the Holocaust ever happened despite the stories and photographs.

Today we have members of the Republican Party claiming that the January 6 insurrection at our Capitol never happened.     

The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth? Probably not going to happen.