I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

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.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

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.

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