Prompt: Write about a truth you were afraid to accept.

 A truth I was afraid to accept was that American history that was taught in Elementary and Middle school was skewed towards a certain perspective that made certain groups of people appear better than they actually were. For instance, in Elementary school, I was taught that the origin of Thanksgiving was a peaceful congregation between English Settlers and the American Indians where food was exchanged. In reality, the English settlers often killed the Native American population, mainly due to the spread of airborne diseases. 

Today in Multicultural Literature we would’ve continued and possibly finish our presentations today, however, a power outage resulted in the entire school having no electricity or internet, which meant that working on our presentations would’ve been impossible. Not much work can be done without electricity or the internet. I am doing good.


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