By misrepresenting the atrocity of kidnapping, transporting, and enslaving people, forcing generations to submit on pain of torture and death, to being treated like beasts of burden, in trying to whitewash such horrors, in the attempt to avoid the moral and practical repercussions of recognising these truths, a false consciousness is being imposed on children. This is adding insult to injury, to say the least. Teachers should walk out en mass and refuse to participate in this denial that is far worse than the Holocaust deniers