Oct 12, 2026, 1:39 PM@FranceskaMann now I am trying to remember how old I was when I learned about it...I have the sense that I learned about the Trail of Tears as early as middle or high school, but the first rock solid memory I have of being truly aware of the genocide is reading A People's History of the United States during my freshman year of college. so yeah. schools here suck.
You and I had to stand up and pledge allegiance to a flag every day at school. It was never about educating us. It was about indoctrinating us into capitalism.
Luckily, I read a lot and I always have. By good luck I didn't watch TV for decades. Then I traveled extensively and lived in several countries around the world. Even so, Facebook propaganda sucked me in. Thing is, once I realized it, I deleted. Most people don't.