I don't disagree with your facts but I have a problem with your conclusion. We very much need to start down this road, and it will certainly get ugly. The problem with the fairytales that were taught as historical fact is that they lead more bad things. The "America is best" slant to education in the 50's led to the Viet Nam war in the 60's. I was a product of that fairytale era when the US could do no wrong. Along with most of my classmates, I went marching off to war to save the world from those horrible communists. It didn't take me long to figure out I had been lied to and "had", but based on what I had been taught in school, we were doing the right thing. Same thing applies to the tales about Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, etc, etc. The pioneers were not heroes. They were thieving savages that stole from the Indians ,then called the cavalry when the Indians objected. Our forefathers were people like trump. We do need to tear down monuments and rename mountains.