good piece Tim - heartily agree that the mythology needs to die - which has little to do with history.

Imagine if folks in Germany started putting up statues of Hitler and other Nazis in 2020. (Pretty much when these were put up in the US to "honor" great confederate leaders in relation to when these men did their ̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ treason)

People would riot in the streets.

Of course, we did nothing of the sort and have had to endure another 100 years of oppression based on lies.