(CNN)Oh, that pesky history of ours. Always holding us back. Why not just take a big ole' eraser to it? Smudge out the ugly parts. That's essentially what some Oklahoma lawmakers aimed to do this week. You may have read about it: An education committee in my home state -- a place with plenty of historical blemishes and oodles of modern-day screw-ups -- actually approved a bill that would rewrite advanced placement U.S. History classes, potentially eliminating them. The cause? They paint America in too negative a light. To get a full sense of how ludicrous this proposal is, you need to hear straight from its sponsor, Dan Fisher, a Republican state representative from a suburb of Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma lawmaker proposes rewrite of U.S. history class
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The same goes for the "robust analyses of gender and racial oppression and class ethnicity and the lives of marginalized people" that the @placeholder rep seems so bothered by.