>> Black kids already know all this. Why pretend it didn't happen?
Then why batter them year after year with it?
>> What exactly did Zinn get wrong?
It just isn't a credible account. But I'm not about to start posting snippits. (My copy was discarded when we moved back to TX, after sitting on shelf since around 2000).
I had never heard of it when I stumbled on it in a bookstore and bought it. I thought I was buying a credible history book written by a reputable scholar; little did I know he wan't a scholar and was just another ideologue. I can handle ideologues, but his writing was anything but scholarly, with poorly written, inept references, and lots of stuff just made up as far as could tell. It reminded me of a history teacher I had in college who very much the same. Biggest bullshit teacher I had in all my university study.
But there is plenty of debate about the bonafides of the book between rational intelligent people and the intellectual class online. I recommend you google it.
Here, though, is a good one paragraph summary from just googling it.
What did Howard Zinn do to create fake history?
As for fake history, “Zinn did everything — misrepresented sources, omitted critical information, falsified evidence, and plagiarized,” Ms. Grabar writes. “Zinn liked to pretend [that] he wrote a ‘people’s’ history, telling the bottom-up story of neglected and forgotten men and women.
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