Will we tell the American story, or just founders' fairy tales?

IF YOU'RE PART of the 45-to 60ish crowd, chances are you grew up watching — and singing along to — “Schoolhouse Rock.”

- LZ GRANDERSON COLUMNIST

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The Saturday morning education series began airing in 1973 and was originally developed to help kids with math before expanding to other core subjects such as grammar and science. The three-minute vignettes earned a Grammy nomination and were embraced by educators as a supplemental learning tool. In celebration of America’s 200th birthday in 1976, the creative force behind “Rock” decided to focus on U.S. history and began its third season with the episode and song “No More Kings”:

The pilgrims sailed the sea.

To find a place to call their own.

In their ship Mayflower,

They hoped to find a better home.

They finally knocked.

On Plymouth Rock.

And someone said, “We're there.”

It may not look like home.

But at this point I don’t care.

The only visual acknowledgment of the people who were already living on this land was during the three seconds it took us to sing the line “but at this point I don’t care.”