Historian Joshua Zeitz wrote on X, “This guy represents California in Congress — one of 9 current states whose territory the US won in part or whole during the Mexican War of 1848.”

“These guys spent so much time erasing American history that they forgot to read it,” wrote BET host Marc Lamont Hill.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    Or that Illinois was colonized by a guy who had to sneak by the nearer native populations as they had realized he was a fraud and wanted to kill him for defrauding them.