There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.