I agree with much of what Mr. Freeman says, and I agree also with pretty much all of the posts I've seen so far on this subject. But please note that Mr. Freeman is not saying that there should be no study of what black people did in the past--he's saying that the history of black people in America should not be limited to just one month of talking about Sojourner Truth and Martin Luther King Jr. It's part of the fabric of American history. Black history can't just be Victimhood Studies, in a curriculum designed to make black people feel helpless and angry.
As a white woman, I really enjoy reading about black history. I do volunteer work for a foundation that studies black history, and it's interesting. The next thing I want to read about is slavery in New York in the seventeenth century.
The history of EVERY group of people includes high and low points and also must deal with how the groups, races or nations interact with each other.