racism

One thing I love about our American psyche, is that we usually give the benefit of the doubt. When confronted with evidence of something wrong, most people are called on the carpet and asked... "Can you explain this?". And it is generally meant as it appears. We're not the kind that presume that people are incompetent, bad, malevolent, or worse when we know little of the circumstances.

We tend to have this same kind of 'benefit of the doubt' when it comes to history.