Martin Luther King Is Inaccurate
Shaina Gilbert
Prof. Conway
English 101
November 26, 2013 It is an obligation since elementary for children to learn about the U.S. history. However, some historical books feed our children and society inaccurate stories to cover some lies that our prideful country, the United States of America is hiding from us. To paraphrase, Hade talks about The American Girl Collections how the stories in those books are so inaccurate that the United States tends to hide the issues, or to focus less on the consequences of some issues as a result for our children to grow up with the belief that the United Sates is this perfect and progressing country, where the United States always have a happy ending (563-572). Related to Hade’s approach of inaccurate stories, the conspiracy of Martin Luther King’s death falls into the same category. Our history book always taught us that Martin’s assassination was done by a lone gunman called James Earl Ray. However along the line, cases and investigations have proven that Martin Luther’s death was all a conspiracy involving the FBI, military, CIA plotting against civil rights leaders. The government and media manage to cover up by providing the public …show more content…
He argues that “the books are too busy telling the students how great the United States was and still is to give them much real history”(Hade 568). It is true, we all know that books will never admit that we were wrong for some part, on the contrary books will brush off the real issues or the real story of the issue to present the United States as being on the right side and doing the best of
Prof. Conway
English 101
November 26, 2013 It is an obligation since elementary for children to learn about the U.S. history. However, some historical books feed our children and society inaccurate stories to cover some lies that our prideful country, the United States of America is hiding from us. To paraphrase, Hade talks about The American Girl Collections how the stories in those books are so inaccurate that the United States tends to hide the issues, or to focus less on the consequences of some issues as a result for our children to grow up with the belief that the United Sates is this perfect and progressing country, where the United States always have a happy ending (563-572). Related to Hade’s approach of inaccurate stories, the conspiracy of Martin Luther King’s death falls into the same category. Our history book always taught us that Martin’s assassination was done by a lone gunman called James Earl Ray. However along the line, cases and investigations have proven that Martin Luther’s death was all a conspiracy involving the FBI, military, CIA plotting against civil rights leaders. The government and media manage to cover up by providing the public …show more content…
He argues that “the books are too busy telling the students how great the United States was and still is to give them much real history”(Hade 568). It is true, we all know that books will never admit that we were wrong for some part, on the contrary books will brush off the real issues or the real story of the issue to present the United States as being on the right side and doing the best of