While I understand that it is wrong  to teach that a group of people are "evil" and that the entire country is "flawed" due to this group's "evil nature", some serious questions have to be asked at this point:

1. Why should we blindly champion a history that celebrates near-genocide of one group of people, the enslavement of a second, and the marginalization of a third (Asians not being allowed to build or own housing).
2. Why have we reached a point in our collective history where we are afraid to bravely examine our past and use it as a way to understand our present and move towards a brilliant future?
3  When did "exceptionalism" come to define only one group's dreams and accomplishments and to hell with the rest?

Sorry, I can be silent no longer. And if Hello Poetry bans me, I will shout elsewhere. Let freedom ring!