Re: “Park service is ordered to take down some materials on slavery and tribes” (Sept. 16, Nation & World):
After studying the article about President Donald Trump’s effort to require the Nationwide Park Service to take away historic gadgets that talk reality to our nation’s historical past, it happens to me that maybe Trump really dislikes our nation, as an alternative of loving it as he espouses.
I can perceive his affection towards America’s capitalist system, as he and his household have profited from it. Nonetheless, I’m wondering if he feels disgrace and contempt over our nationwide historical past, particularly the challenges which have outlined us since our inception — challenges that embrace the ugliest a part of our historical past, like our involvement in slavery and displacing Native People. However whitewashing and reconstructing our historical past by omission and elimination factors to an effort at eager to deny it, disassociate from it and lie about it.
I’m most pleased with being an American once I can actually have a look at and study American historical past, comprehensively discussing who we’re so I can grow to be a greater particular person and citizen due to it.
I’m glad I’m not a part of Trump’s phantasm of America, for it units up a home of playing cards that can’t maintain the burden of the reality of how America got here to be.
Corey Goldstein, Seattle
