The divisive rant by Ed Hamilton Rosales is an example of someone who doesn’t know history (“Teach real history of United States,” The Columbian, May 30). Instead of looking at the content of people’s character, he takes advantage of our country’s new racial awareness to paint a whole group of people with the wide brush of his own racism.
Like those proponents of the historically inaccurate “Critical Race Theory” and 1619 Project, he looks at history through the distorting prism of race. He denigrates the accomplishments of one whole group of Americans and labels them as Nazis. He is one of the extremists who lump people into racial groups, demonizing one group and blaming them for the ills of society. He does nothing to heal or unify, he divides our nation by labels: oppressors and oppressed, privileged and underprivileged, people of color and white. He offers no specifics on how history is taught today or how we ought to teach history, he only bounces from one racially charged topic to another.
He should use his position and skills to bring people together, not push them apart.
