Your piece demonstrates exactly the issue that many have with this 'new approach', though, if I may. You discuss the fact Jefferson had slaves while also doing the work of undoing slavery. You then state 'this hasn't been discussed or taught' when it absolutely has, and is. Nobody normal learns about slavery, the racist and colonialist past and thinks 'no biggie', ever. You then make a huge logical and philosphical error by directly conflating that past reality with current inequality and poverty - directly - as if they have anything to do with each other, and as if nothing substantial has changed over the past 50-60 years. If all the people experiencing failure and hardship in the US were Black, or even predominately so, you might be onto something. But that's patently absurd. This is a correct outrage aimed in totally the wrong direction, and blaming the wrong causative structure. The failure to understand that the same time-frame when all people finally had a relatively level playing field economically and in terms of access to opportunity coincided with the utter stripping of the rights/wages/conditions for workers, and the rampant rise of the corporations to dominate not only our consumer habits, buit our working ones too. The middle class has been absolutely gutted just when all folks could expect effort and work to gain them a spot in that class. If you're concerned history isn't being taught properly, go there my friend. The slavery part should not only focus on the horror and injustice of it - but that our current culture is founded on the first in human history to be part of a global movement of eradication of this aspect of human societies that has been in almost every one, and at all times we have knowledge of....