"If you can teach kids about some medieval European king with no affect on this country, might as well teach them about Asian emperors and African kings."
I can't believe they are wasting a year of schoolwork on this nonsense when the majority of kids coming out of those schools can barely write a coherent sentence or do basic math. It is criminal to focus on afrocentric history when they are not learning the basics.
I can't believe it either. My view is that most schools offer world history (as an elective!), and that's good. Mandatory PC education? NO! If history beyond American history is mandatory, make it world history so they're not ignorant about why things are happening around the world. Black and African history, if taught right (instead of the "evil white men" angle), would help them understand the troubles in Africa, but only in Africa, and Africa is pretty insignificant these days, having effectively ended after colonialism died.