The sickening historical lie that Abraham Lincoln wasn't interested in abolishing black slavery.

[brer cat]

5. "The problem today is an obsession with individuals as mythical heroes who did no wrong."

I agree, JHan. It is a shortcoming in our schools as well as in our critical thinking. The reverse is also true: say something positive about LBJ's Great Society, and someone is going to start "but, but, but Vietnam." Judging our leaders in a binary fashion as either heroes or goats causes us to miss valuable teaching/learning opportunities and imo sends a terrible message to children. Lincoln deserves enormous credit for forcibly freeing slaves, but it is wrong to not point out that he was opposed to granting them equality, even to the point of making the very idea of equality between the races the butt of jokes. Freeing the slaves was a necessary and courageous first step, but the fight for equality is still going strong over 150 years out.