"""They tell kids that their revolutionary war involved the people rising up and fighting for their own interests, they don't mention that it was orchestrated by slave owning elites for their own benefit,"""
Luckily, Americans DID have a genuine, true blue, world class hero who forced the government to give real rights and equality to the common people.
Sadly, since he makes the founding fathers look like a bunch of scoundrels, he will never be given the hero status in America that he deserves.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc..._Rebellion.htm