True democracy needs equality

In defense of the person who wrote about being taught in school that the war which divided our country was a “war between the states”:

Written history has distorted the truth and adhered to the politics of the time from the very start. In the late ’50s, in the state of Washington public schools, the “War between the states over states’ rights” was being taught at the high school level. I know, I was there, a very impressionable teenager reading this version in our history text books. Looking back, I realize this could have been deliberate to keep “Jim Crowism” alive in the South and the North, or it could have been a way of sanitizing our horrible, bloody stain of slavery in this country. I cannot understand the ingrained hatred of another human because of skin color. And, why after 150 years are we still letting this issue divide our country?

How can we hold ourselves up to the rest of the world as a true form of democracy if we do not move forward with better racial relations, and better consideration for our neighbors? If we move forward with a more humane attitude for all people in our country, America will become stronger.

M. J. Donovan-Creamer

Everett