Propaganda
As a high school history teacher, I have the luxury of spending time thinking about things that the average adult just doesn’t have time to think about. For example, I just spent several weeks looking at how propaganda was used to divide Americans into “us” and “them” groups throughout our history. It is clear from studying the primary sources that from the moment Columbus got off the boat, there was a concentrated effort to create an “us” group (Europeans) and a “them” (everyone else) group in North America. At first, the targets were the Natives and Africans slaves. As time passed, Catholics, Jews and the Chinese were added to the “them” group. Over time, Catholics had two advantages that allowed them to claw out of the “them” group. 1. Skin color 2. Sheer numbers. However, to this day Non-Whites and Jews are still the “other” in America. The narrative since World War II has tried to tell a different story. America supported the development of Israel and welcomed