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Professor finds that most college students think America invented slavery

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For 11 years, Professor Duke Pesta gave quizzes to his students at the beginning of the school year to test their knowledge on basic facts about American history and Western culture.

The most surprising result from his 11-year experiment? Students’ overwhelming belief that slavery began in the United States and was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, he said.

“Most of my students could not tell me anything meaningful about slavery outside of America,” Pesta told The College Fix. “They are convinced that slavery was an American problem that more or less ended with the Civil War, and they are very fuzzy about the history of slavery prior to the Colonial era. Their entire education about slavery was confined to America.”

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Once Clinton gets elected it will get even worse. the vitriol against Whites will escalate even more than it has under Obama.
    And most younger Whites are too stupid and too gutless to stand up to it. About the only ones who do are a small idiot group of skinheads.