Some Common Sense I Need to Hear From My Candidate

James Longstreet  . . . "Washington fought Indians in the French and Indian War of the 1750s, Lincoln fought Indians in the Blackhawk War of 1832 and made a racist speech in 1856, Grant fought and killed Mexicans in the Mexican War and his wife was a slave owner, Phillip Sheridan fought and killed Indians as did Custer, Kearny, Reno, and Cody. 
"Are we to rename all that is named for these men? And there are so many more examples.

"Teach history properly. Not all of history is pretty, and not all of it can be understood through the prism of 21st century ethics. We can easily see the danger of a Common Core history curriculum and its directives and guidances from Washington D.C.

"The opening line of every history teacher in America should be; “It is unfair to judge a man’s views on the issues of his day by the ideological fashions of another era.”  -- Anonymous" . . .